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Hosting Explanation
Having your very own private online portal is a must nowadays. The entry of the World Wide Web in our everyday lives signifies that, in order for somebody to be noticed, or to make his voice heard, one needs to have a web page and get it online. In order to fulfill that, you actually require two elements - a web site and a hosting service. Prior to establishing a web page, though, it's necessary to know that there are separate kinds of website hosting services and that not all websites can perform with a randomly picked hosting. In order to describe this better, let us begin with the main point:
What is Hosting?
Hosting, or otherwise famous as 'web hosting', is a designation that refers to the actual hosting server, or the web hosting corporation that owns the hosting server. A web hosting server is a computer that's connected to the Internet and that's configured to support PHP, MySQL, Perl, and so on, which permits the customers to upload their website files on the web hosting server and to have them published on the World Wide Web. There are two major kinds of servers, based on the OS of the hosting server - Windows and Linux. The two Operating Systems are quite dissimilar and, in most cases, not at all compatible with each other. Therefore, prior to selecting the relevant solution, one should first learn what sort of web server is demanded for their web portal.
If you haven't established the site so far, then let us have a more detailed look at the difference between the 2 types and at what their strengths are.
What platform should you go with - Windows or Linux?
As mentioned, there are software applications, which are solely compatible with a certain OS. For instance, JAVA scripts, .ASP pages, .NET Framework, Adobe ColdFusion are all based on Windows and will not perform on a Linux web server. So, if you would like to devise your website using any of the above, you should be searching for a Windows platform. Windows, however, is not an open-source software platform, which suggests that it offers restricted options in terms of server safety and privacy. That is the reason why, Linux is used by web server administrators around the world and most hosting vendors utilize it on their servers. Using Linux, the administrator can configure the web server in a completely modifiable manner, and if the hosting server is correctly set up, it can offer full safety against hackers and malware. Also, the flexibility of Linux allows for better optimization, which brings about better site functioning. Thus, if you want ultimate safety and web server operation, then you should set up your web site in such a way that it works with a Linux-driven web server. This is not a difficult thing to fulfill, as the most widespread Content Management Systems, also famous as CMSs, like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, etc., are completely consistent with Linux servers and are known all over the world for being one of the best applications for devising and handling web sites. Certainly, this doesn't imply that every web hosting corporation that's using Linux will have administrators who are able to properly run a Linux hosting server. Selecting the right web hosting company is quite hard at present, because most of them do not have the capability to employ a competent, trained web admin. A Linux hosting server that hasn't been correctly set up can be very risky to your website and personal information. For that reason, when choosing a hosting distributor, it's invariably advisable to opt for an established host that's been in business for at least a couple of years.
How to recognize the correct web hosting distributor for my site?
These hosting firms are easily detectable by the way in which they are offering their website hosting packages. Practiced providers offer custom-built functionality, diverse PHP-powered scripts or software frameworks. The most practiced, however, possess even their own personal custom-created hosting CPs built particularly for their system. A web hosting Control Panel is an online-based GUI, via which the customer handles the whole web hosting service. Smaller hosting providers make use of ready-to-use hosting CPs such as cPanel or DirectAdmin. In order, however, to guarantee maximum security and efficacy for their website hosting services, the leading web hosting firms offer to their clients their own personal in-house developed web hosting CPs devised by their very own administrators. We, at 'Webtanium', don't simply provide our very own custom-devised Control Panel, but have also created a free open-source script package, which allows our customers to effortlessly activate any of the aforementioned open-source web content management platforms. Specs like these prove that we have the capacity, the resources and the necessary experience to be entrusted with preserving your private info confidential and your website - reachable on the World Wide Web.