Every Business/Organization needs to be online in today's era. The most basic way of it is a Website, probably a simple static website design. Other options include Web Apps, Facebook apps, Android/iOS apps, online forums, blogs etc. Whichever option you or your company choose to build yourself an online identity, the most important ingredient for your online presence recipe is Web Hosting.
As we discussed in our previous blogs that if your website be considered as a real estate, then the domain name is the address. But a domain name can't just make your website go live or build your online presence. Web Hosting may be assumed as the land when you consider your website as a real estate property. Web Hosting refers to the online web space (generally measured in GB) which is allocated to your website on the world wide web. Web Hosting is provided by Hosting servers. Even your own computer system can act as a host for your website if it can stay online 24 X 7.
As we discussed in our previous blogs that if your website be considered as a real estate, then the domain name is the address. But a domain name can't just make your website go live or build your online presence. Web Hosting may be assumed as the land when you consider your website as a real estate property. Web Hosting refers to the online web space (generally measured in GB) which is allocated to your website on the world wide web. Web Hosting is provided by Hosting servers. Even your own computer system can act as a host for your website if it can stay online 24 X 7.
Many Web Hosting companies setup their own data centers and provide web hosting to the users. The provide different type of web hosting like Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Cloud Hosting etc. These different types of hosting are explained in the following paragraph. Also, there are specialized Web Hosting also such as 1-Click Wordpress Hosting, CMS Hosting (Drupal & Joomla), E-commerce Hosting (Zencart, osCommerce etc.) & Reseller Hosting.
- Shared Hosting : Shared Hosting is the most basic type of web hosting and also the most affordable one. In such a hosting package, different websites/blogs are hosted on a single server and they share the total web space allocated. This can be a demerit if your website has huge number of visitors and require fast load & response time.
- VPS Hosting : It comes in between the Shared hosting & the Dedicated hosting. In this type of hosting some of the resources are shared across multiple websites, still the users have the root access which allows them to install any compatible app of their choice. Irrespective of any time or situation, the CPU, RAM, HDD/Web Space and Bandwidth that have been allocated to your hosting package will always be available for your applications.
- Dedicated Hosting : These are the fastest ans most expensive of all the three major types, since you don't share any resource with anyone other. It is your privately owned server and you'll have complete access to it. It gives you a wide variety of Operating Systems to choose from such as CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows etc. Dedicated servers require skilled technicians to run and manage them. These things adds up to its cost and are thus preferred only by large enterprises or e-commerce stores.
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