Thursday, February 8, 2018

Web Hosting 101: Novices Once, Experts Forever

The hard stuff is behind you. You have just finished making and designing your web site. Now it is time to have some fun, and engage in your first online practice session as a web site owner. You are already logged on, with your “paraphernalia” on the screen. All you need to know is how to make your web site available online.

Before you can do that, you need to know the concept behind the basic means of putting up web sites. Looking at it closely, web sites do not exist alone in the Net. In fact, they cannot even function without it. Web sites are totally helpless without these so-called web servers.


Web servers are, actually, the ones that operate a web site. Its responsibility is to make the web site available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Here, huge “computer server” serves as a host to many web sites who wish to get access to the Web. That is why its process is known as web hosting.

Like in print and broadcast advertising, space is the ultimate focus of the market in web hosting. Web site owners try to rent or lease a particular space of the server in order to gain recognition or identification on the Internet. Without these spaces, no web site can gain “website presence’ on the Internet even if that web site is remarkable as far as web designs are concerned.

Even if the concept of web hosting is as simple as it may sound, many people are still confused about the real concept in web hosting. It is as easy as the advertisements in print and in television.

For instance, when a certain company wants to advertise his business in a newspaper, he should pay the amount of space that his ad will accumulate. The bigger the ad, the higher the price.

Same thing goes with web hosting. Each type of web hosting has its own value and purposes. Hence, their prices may also vary. That is why it is important to know the different kinds of web hosting so that you will know what kind of web hosting will work best for you.

Here is the list:

1. Dedicated web hosting

This type of web hosting refers to the process of getting a server of another. At any instance, the web site is almost independent when it comes to basic operations because this type of web hosting does not have restrictions.

Hence, it is regarded as an expensive type of web hosting.

2. Free web hosting

As the word implies, the space is generally provided without any charge. However, the main drawback is its limited capacity.

Moreover, if you will use this type of web hosting, you will be compelled to have your server’s advertisements displayed on your site. Plus, it only allows you to make some editing and “web-based” uploading on your site, not to mention very restricted and inadequate “disc space” and traffic boundaries.

3. Reseller web hosting

This type of hosting is a remarkable breakthrough as far as web hosting is concerned. This is because with reseller web hosting, servers give consent to their clients to be web hosts themselves.

4. Shared web hosting

Because it is shared, it is expected that many web sites are dependent on a single web server or web host. And because they are all connected to one server, anything bad that will happen on one site can greatly affect the whole network.

5. Clustered web hosting

This type of web hosting is a crossbreed between the shared and the dedicated web hosting. This means that in cluster web hosting, it has the independence like those that are into dedicate web hosting but with the cheaper or affordable price of those that are in shared web hosting.

There are still other types of web hosting. Choose one that you think will work best for you. Just keep in mind that whatever type of web hosting you are engaged in, the important thing is to drive more traffic to your site so as to gain more visitors, and more visitors would definitely mean more profits.

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