How Hosting Services Functions

Hosting is a service that hosting corporations provide so that you can publish your website on the Internet.

How can people see your website?

When you make a site and you want other people to spot it, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a hosting server. If you attempt to render the website reachable online by hosting it on your own personal computer, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why website hosting services exist.

How does hosting work?

Hosting companies offer you disk space for your website on their high-power computers (web servers) and ensure constant website accessibility. When somebody writes your web address (e.g. www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web hosting server where they can have a glimpse at the content of your web site.

Hosting varieties

With the development of web technologies, several types of web hosting services have appeared to meet the different requirements of web site possessors, including shared hosting services, private virtual server hosting services and dedicated hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared hosting is the most popular form of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where one single hosting server is divided between lots of hosting account owners who are limited by the CPU, bandwidth and web space quotas that they have been apportioned. This type of web hosting is commonly cheaper - you don't need to buy the entire server in advance, as it is shared between plenty of hosting account owners, and the web hosting company can afford to provide much more moderate prices. It is also much easier to use - the hosting server is pre-installed with all the required software and the hosting vendor takes care of all server maintenance tasks and software updates on your behalf.

The weak side of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other hosting clients and if one site becomes really popular it may affect (and slow down) all the other sites on that web hosting server, but most hosting firms, including us at EI CLOUD WEB HOST, have protection systems at work that obstruct that from taking place.

A description of a web hosting service

Since shared hosting is the most widely used form of web hosting, most hosting companies and hosting customers simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a large rivalry on the website hosting marketplace, most hosting providers strive to provide reasonable prices and gifts with their services. We, for instance, offer different hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and annual, depending on your funds. If you pick the yearly billing cycle, you will get a gift - one charge-free domain registration.

VPS services

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated server web hosting solution. If your website grows beyond the resources offered by your shared website hosting package, a private virtual web server hosting plan is an excellent solution. private virtual web server hosting customers still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other virtual server web hosting customers, but the physical machine is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own dedicated resources and can be configured practically like a full-fledged dedicated web server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a virtual server are not shared. Additionally, the virtualization software offers you much more autonomy to configure your private virtual web server, but it also presupposes a higher level of technical knowledge.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the customer gets an entire dedicated web hosting server and can utilize all its system resources. The dedicated server web hosting solution is the most reliable of all hosting solutions and offers countless configuration options - the dedicated hosting users can select the hardware and software specifications that will answer their needs. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are two reasons why a dedicated hosting package is a perfect option for a resource-absorbing business site, for instance - you will not share the dedicated web hosting server's resources with anyone else and will be bestowed with root privileges. You will exercise full control over the server, which will permit you to make any server configuration changes that you might need. The downside of the dedicated hosting solution is that a higher level of technical knowledge is required - unless you hire an Information Technology expert, it will be your obligation to manage and configure the server. The dedicated hosting solution is also far more costly, since the cost of the physical machine isn't shared among any other clients.

A website hosting tip for beginner users

If you are just beginning to set up your website and need a web hosting solution to commence with, the shared website hosting solution remains the wisest option. If your site outgrows your shared hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and does not involve migration of your data, since only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting plan to a more advanced one at any particular time without having to worry about the time left until expiration. Besides, if you eventually reach the most powerful shared web hosting plan and still require more system resources (which is great sometimes - it suggests that your website's popularity has risen!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a private virtual web server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting solution without needing to change hosting service providers.