Hosting Plans Description

As its name indicates, hosting is a service, which entails hosting online content. There are different forms and types of hosting, depending on the goals and on the usage. Yet, they all are associated with hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Internet. A host is in fact a web hosting service that is connected to the Web and has its very own IP address, which permits users to have access to it via the World Wide Web. The web hosting server's configuration and its system resources are dependent on the sort of hosting solution it will be utilized for.

What are the different types of web hosting?

Based on the application, the professional web hosting solution may be:

File Web Hosting - this form of web hosting allows the customers to save their files on a given hosting server. With the ordinary file web hosting solution, the files that are kept may only be accessed by the customer that's availing of the service. This web hosting solution typically is associated with backups of PCs , documents, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also involve certain limits when it comes to the disk storage and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth limitations, but that depends on the given web hosting service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is quite similar to the previous hosting service type. Yet, in contrast with the file hosting service, the warez hosting service is used for transmitting proprietary work without the blessing of the patent possessor. To put it briefly - it is associated with the illegal distribution of files and docs. There are many approaches for this to be attained, but the two main approaches are - via simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and via peer-to-peer connections. The first method entails either a specific web page, or, most typically, simply a directory on a web hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download proprietary files for free. The second method involves a P2P connection, availing of the so-called Torrent servers, via which users share files between each other. There aren't many web hosting distributors that allow such form of web hosting on their servers, mostly because of all the judicial predicaments that it presupposes. Commonly such sites are hosted on personal dedicated web servers that are registered by third-party companies either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Web Hosting - this service is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, depending on the client's desire. If you desire to have your very own personal SMTP e-mail server, then you will require either a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated hosting server that offers the level of access required to carry out such a procedure. For ordinary mail web hosting purposes, however, you can utilize a regular shared website hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain. This is not a service that's very famous, because the website hosting and the email hosting services are being served by two separate web servers, often owned by different hosts.

Hosting - the most popular and widely used hosting service today. It's used for hosting site files, whose kind depends on the Operating System the web hosting server is availing of - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files request specific hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be displayed appropriately on the Internet. This kind of web hosting may impose storage space and web traffic quota limits, server root access and central processing unit usage limitations.

Based on the purpose and on the functions, the user should select the kind of web hosting server that he requires for his work, and, of course, the web hosting corporation that's going to supply it. There are several sorts of web hosting servers, depending on the configuration and the web hosting services that they provide. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server offers a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, reflects on the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small and medium web portals, which do not need huge quantities of disk storage space and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they operate on the same principle as the shared web hosting servers. Nevertheless, there are much fewer users hosted on the same web server. For that reason, each of them will enjoy a larger share of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, data storage, web traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting heavy web pages that do not require root privileges.

VPS are excellent for medium sized sites, which do require root access to the hosting server's config files. Commonly, there are a handful of VPS web hosting accounts placed on the same physical server. Yet, each of them is isolated from the rest and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a fully dedicated machine set up and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a considerable quantity of system resources. It also includes full root access, which makes it an ideal environment for any kind of website that necessitates a web hosting service.

The only question that's left is:

Which web hosting supplier should I settle on?

As mentioned above, there aren't many hosting companies providing warez web hosting solutions because of legal entanglements. Such hosting providers are being closed down virtually every month. Because of that, if you would like to start such a service, you should do it on your own personal computer. The shared web hosting service is the most widely spread kind of web hosting service. Because of that, each website hosting provider offers it. Not all of them, though, offer services such as private virtual web servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated web servers. Most of the smaller website hosting providers do not have the resources required for maintaining those services. You can easily recognize such web hosts by the types of services that they are providing and by the manner in which they present them to the clients. For example, some web hosts allow you to kick off with a smaller website hosting account and afterwards shift to a bigger one, if you find it obligatory to do so. This is extremely suitable, because you do not have to move web pages between servers and there is no risk of suffering service interruptions due to all the problems that may show up.

We, at Webtanium provide all sorts of services and have the needed web hosting server resources and staff to assure that their clients will not experience any predicaments when changing services, which is what a top hosting supplier is actually all about.