What Does Website Hosting Represent?

As its name implies, website hosting is a service, which entails hosting online content. There are different forms and kinds of web hosting, based on the goals and on the objectives. In spite of that, they all are associated with hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available through the Web. A host is in fact a server that is linked to the World Wide Web and has its own personal Internet Protocol address, which allows people to have access to it through the Internet. The server's architecture and its limitations are determined by the kind of hosting service it will be utilized for.

What are the various forms of hosting?

Depending on the mission, the hosting solution may be:

File Web Hosting - this type of web hosting permits the users to stash their files on a particular server. With the regular file web hosting service, the files that are hosted may only be accessed by the individual that's using the service. This hosting solution traditionally concerns backups of computers , docs, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This service may also involve given restrictions with regard to the disk storage space and the root access. There may also be traffic quota limits, but that depends on the particular provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is very similar to the previous hosting service form. Yet, unlike the file storage hosting service, the warez web hosting service is utilized for circulating copyrighted work without being given the go-ahead by the license proprietor. To put it briefly - it pertains to the prohibited distribution of files and materials. There are many approaches for this to be brought about, but the 2 chief approaches are - via simple HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first method entails either a particular website, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a web server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download patented content for free. The second way involves a P2P connection, utilizing the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people transmit files between each other. There are not many hosting firms that permit that form of hosting on their web hosting servers, mostly because of all the legal complications that it involves. Generally such web sites are hosted on private dedicated web servers that are registered by third-party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Hosting - this service is relevant with both shared web hosting and dedicated hosting servers, depending on the client's wish. If you would like to run your own private SMTP mail server, then you will need either a virtual private web hosting server or a dedicated web server that provides the level of access needed to carry out such a task. For typical email hosting ends, however, you can open a standard shared hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a service that's very popular, since the website hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by 2 different web servers, usually owned by separate web hosting providers.

Website Hosting - the most famous and universally utilized hosting service now. It's utilized for hosting site files, whose type is determined by the Operating System the web hosting server is utilizing - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files demand concrete web hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be shown appropriately on the Internet. This sort of hosting may involve disk storage space and traffic quota limits, server root access and CPU usage restrictions.

Based on the mission and on the objectives, the customer should choose the sort of web hosting server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the web hosting firm that's going to provide it. There are various kinds of servers, depending on the specs and the web hosting services that they offer. These are:

Shared Website Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server includes a smaller amount of system resources, which, of course, reflects on the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small scale and medium size sites, which do not demand considerable quotas of web space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting - they work on the same principle as the shared web hosting servers. However, there are much fewer users hosted on the same hosting server. That is why, each of them will get a larger share of the server's resources like RAM, web space, traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting heavy web sites that do not demand root access.

VPS web hosting are perfect for medium scale web portals, which do demand root-level access to the web server's configuration files. Traditionally, there are a few virtual private hosting server accounts placed on the same physical server. However, each of them is insulated from the others and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Web Hosting - a fully dedicated hosting server set up and accessed by you and solely you. It guarantees a gigantic amount of system resources. It also offers full root-level access, which makes it a perfect solution for any type of web portal that demands a web hosting solution.

The only question that remains is:

Which website hosting corporation should I pick?

As mentioned, there are not many web hosts offering warez hosting solutions because of judicial complications. Such companies are being shut down practically every month. That is why, if you wish to run such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most famous type of hosting service. Therefore, each and every website hosting corporation provides it. Not all of them, however, provide solutions such as virtual hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Web Hosting and dedicated web servers. Most of the small scale website hosting firms do not have the resources needed for offering those solutions. You can effortlessly ID such hosting companies by the kinds of solutions that they are offering and by the way that they present them to the clients. For instance, certain web hosts permit you to start with a small sized web hosting account and afterwards move to a more advanced one, if you deem it necessary to do so. This is quite convenient, because you do not need to transfer web sites between web servers and there is no chance of experiencing service downtime because of all the problems that may take place.

We, at iNet Africa offer all kinds of services and have the necessary web hosting server resources and personnel to assure that their customers will not stumble upon any complications when changing services, which is what a top hosting supplier is in fact all about.