Basic Features of ‘WEB HOSTS’:

WEB HOSTING:

Web Hosting will help you to access your website by anyone, from anywhere. A web host is a service provider that places your website on a computer which is connected to the internet and gives people access to your website every day of the year. It can be considered as a subscription service where you would pay an amount to ensure that your website is accessible everyday of the year. The computer that stores your website information is called server and it is allows information in it to access through the network. That means in basic terms web host rents web space out to you so that you can get your website up on the World Wide Web.

It is best use full for who are planning to launch a new product, start a business because it stores websites, the companies data base, picture files, movies, emails, mp3’s and essentially everything that can be put on a computer. The web hosting will help you to secure a domain name, which free hosting accounts cannot offer. Having a lengthy URL shows that your website is hosted by free server and its unprofessional appearance will confuse your customers.

Basic Features of ‘WEB HOSTS’:

Server type: It refers to the type of server software which is running on the server. With simple websites, the server type is not of much important, but in case of more complex website with data base functions which serves up dynamic pages, the importance of the server type then plays a more important role

Disk Space: It is the amount of web space that is actually available to you for the storage of your website on the hard drive of the web server.

Band Width per month: It determines the amount of website that is available to you. It is the measure of how much transfer is available. A high traffic website have very high band width requirement when compared to the average site.

Email Accounts: It is simply how many email accounts you are permitted to have with the web hosting account.

Types of WebHosting:

It is very important to choose a web host and a web hosting package which will suit their particular needs.

So below is an outline of the four main web hosting types to help you make a right choices which best suits your needs.

Free Hosting:

A quite popular kind of web hosting especially for students and some personal sites is free web hosting which means you don’t have to pay for it! But as we all know nothing comes completely free. Web hosting companies which offer free web hosting will generally require you to put some kind of advert on your website or link, this is a revenue stream for them which can actually make them a tidy profit. Free hosting will limit the professionalism of your website. Other draw backs of free hosting are that your site will be probably be hosted on an older server which causes more down lime issues. Also you will be provided with limited web space and band width and will not get any technical support. Free hosting is good option for small sites.

Shared Web Hosting:

Shared web hosting is the one of the paid web hosting service and is far better than free hosting. Shared hosting is the most economical one in which multiple sites is hosted on one server. Here your web site will be provided with its own web space on the server to keep it separate from other websites. Shared hosting is the perfect site for small to large business sites, personal sites, and blogs and gallery sites. Here you can also expect features like sending and receiving mails, software installations such as Word Press, Joomla, Drupal etc, databases, e-commerce features and fast, efficient technical support.

Virtual Private / Dedicated Servers:

Because of many advancements over the last few years in virtualization and have produced a very reliable type of web hosting known as virtual private/  Dedicated servers otherwise known as VPS or VDS.  Here one physical server being portioned off into separate, multiple virtual servers.

 And both of them will have same appearance and features and it can run on its own operating system and also be independently rebooted.VSP or VDS are a great choice for people who require more advanced features, without the cost of a full dedicated server

Dedicated server:

Dedicated server provides a completely dedicated solution solely for your website. You will have the server’s resources, processing power, web space, and memory at your website disposal. This is the recommended hosting option if you are expecting or experiencing a heavy traffic, need a higher level of reliability, more speed, and enhanced security or required specific software for your site. But dedicated servers are significantly more expensive.