How Website Hosting Works

Website hosting is a service that hosting companies provide so that you can upload your website to the web.

How can people open your site?

When you create a web site and you want other persons to discern it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a server. If you try to render the site reachable online by website hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why hosting services exist.

How does website hosting work?

Web hosting companies provide you with space for your site on their high-end computers (web servers) and ensure continuous network uptime. When somebody types your web address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the hosting server where they can take a gaze at the content of your website.

Hosting varieties

With the growth of Internet technologies, several types of web hosting services have come into existence to match the different demands of website possessors, including shared web hosting services, private virtual web server hosting services and dedicated web server hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared website hosting is the most popular form of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where a single web server is shared among plenty of hosting account holders who are limited by the CPU, traffic and hosting space quotas that they have been apportioned. This form of hosting is usually less expensive - you don't have to purchase the whole web hosting server in advance, as it is divided among a lot of web hosting account owners, and the web hosting provider can afford to provide much cheaper prices. It is also much easier to use - the server is pre-installed with all the required software and the web hosting solutions provider takes care of all server maintenance tasks and software updates on your behalf.

The weakness of the shared hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other individuals and if one web site becomes really busy it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the web sites on that web server, but most web hosting distributors, including us at DMS Technologies Hosting, have security platforms at work that obstruct that from occurring.

A definition of a hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most popular type of web hosting, the majority of web hosting service providers and web hosting clients simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a large competition on the web hosting marketplace, the majority of web hosting suppliers strive to offer modest prices and gifts with their services. We, for instance, provide different website hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you select the yearly invoicing cycle, you will get a gift - one free-of-cost domain registration.

VPS web hosting

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. The VPS web hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your site outgrows the resources offered by your shared web hosting package, a private virtual web server plan is a possible solution. virtual server web hosting account holders still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS server hosting account owners, but the hard disk is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like a real dedicated server. The advantage is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private web hosting server are not shared. Moreover, the virtualization software offers you much more freedom to configure your VPS web server, but it also presupposes a higher degree of technical know-how.

Dedicated Web Hosting

With the Dedicated Web Hosting solution, the user obtains a whole hosting server and can utilize all its system resources. The dedicated server web hosting solution is the most reliable of all website hosting solutions and offers tons of customization options - the dedicated web server hosting users can pick the hardware and software specifications that will satisfy their needs. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated web hosting server is an excellent solution for a resource-devouring corporate web portal, for example - you will not share the dedicated hosting web server's resources with anyone else and will get complete root access. You will have full authority over the physical machine, which will permit you to make any configuration changes that you might need. The weakness of the dedicated web hosting solution is that a higher level of technical competence is required - unless you hire an IT specialist, you will be responsible for administering and configuring the physical machine. The dedicated server hosting solution is also much more expensive, because the cost of the dedicated hosting server isn't shared among any other customers.

A website hosting advice for novices

If you are just beginning to create your web site and are looking for a web hosting solution to commence with, the shared web hosting solution persists to be the most intelligent option. If your web site outgrows your web hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not necessitate migration of your data, since only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting plan to a more advanced one at any particular time without having to worry about the time remaining before the expiration date. Additionally, if you finally reach the most powerful shared hosting package and still require more system resources (which is great sometimes - it indicates that your website's popularity has grown!), there always is the option to move to a virtual private web server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting server without needing to swap web hosting service providers.