How Web Hosting Services Operates

Web hosting is a service that web hosting companies provide so that you can put your site on the World Wide Web.

How can people spot your website?

When you create a website and you wish other persons to check it out, you will have to publish (or upload) it to a server. If you attempt to make the site available on the Internet by web hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does web hosting work?

Hosting suppliers provide you with space for your web site on their high-powered computers (servers) and guarantee constant service uptime. When somebody writes your web address (e.g. www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the web server where they can have a peek at the content of your web site.

Types of hosting

With the progress of Internet technologies, several types of web hosting services have emerged to match the various demands of web site proprietors, including shared hosting services, Virtual Private Server web hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.

Shared website hosting

Shared hosting is the most commonly used form of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where one single hosting server is shared among many clients who are restricted by the CPU, web traffic and server space quotas that they have been assigned. This form of web hosting is usually cheaper - you don't need to buy the whole web server in advance, as it is shared among numerous hosting account holders, and the web hosting services provider can afford to offer much more reasonable prices. It is also much easier to use - the server is pre-configured with all the required software and the web hosting supplier handles all server maintenance tasks and software updates on your behalf.

The negative side of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's resources with other hosting customers and if a given site becomes very busy it may influence (and slow down) all the other sites on that web server, but the majority of hosting service providers, including us at Bitsolt Hosting, have security systems in place that obstruct that from happening.

A definition of a hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of web hosting, the majority of hosting firms and web hosting clients simply call it web hosting or website hosting. As there is an extensive competition on the website hosting market, the majority of hosting companies try to offer modest prices and gifts with their services. We, for example, offer different hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and annual, based on your resources. If you pick the yearly invoicing cycle, you will receive a present - one free-of-charge domain name registration.

VPS hosting services

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared web hosting package, a VPS web server plan is a suitable choice. virtual server hosting account holders still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS server web hosting customers, but the server is partitioned using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own dedicated system resources and can be configured practically like a full-fledged dedicated server. The advantage is that the CPU and the memory on a VPS are not shared. In addition, the virtualization technology offers you much more freedom to configure your virtual hosting server, but it also presupposes a more advanced level of technical know-how.

Dedicated Hosting

With the Dedicated Hosting solution, the user obtains an entire physical server and can use all its resources. The dedicated web hosting solution is the most powerful of all website hosting solutions and offers plenty of customization options - the dedicated web server hosting customers can pick the hardware and software specs that will satisfy their demands. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated web server is an excellent solution for a resource-intensive corporate site, for example - you will not share the physical server's system resources with anyone else and will be bestowed with complete root-level access. You will exercise full authority over the machine, which will allow you to implement any server configuration modifications that you might need. The disadvantage of the dedicated web hosting solution is that a more advanced level of technical know-how is required - unless you hire an Information Technology expert, it will be your duty to administer and configure the dedicated hosting web server. The dedicated hosting solution is also much more costly, since the cost of the dedicated web hosting server isn't shared among any other clients.

A hosting tip for novices

If you are just starting to build your website and need a website hosting solution to commence with, the shared web hosting solution persists to be the most relevant option. If your website grows beyond your web hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is very easy and requires no migration of your data, since only the parameters of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your hosting package to a more advanced one at any given time without having to worry about the time remaining before the expiration date. In addition, if you finally reach the most powerful shared hosting package and still require more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it signifies that your website's popularity has risen!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a VPS web hosting platform or a dedicated web hosting solution without having to switch web hosting providers.