What Precisely is Hosting?

As its name suggests, hosting is a solution, which involves hosting web content. There are various varieties and kinds of hosting, based on the mission and on the functions. Nevertheless, they all entail hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Internet. A web host is in fact a server that is linked to the World Wide Web and has its very own Internet Protocol address, which enables users to get access to it through the World Wide Web. The web server's architecture and its resources depend on the sort of hosting solution it will be utilized for.

What are the various forms of web hosting?

Depending on the purpose, the web hosting solution may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of web hosting enables the clients to save their files on a certain web server. With the routine file storage hosting solution, the files that are accommodated may only be accessed by the individual that's utilizing the service. This hosting service traditionally includes backups of personal computers , documents, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also contain given limitations in terms of the data space and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth quota limitations, but that depends on the particular web hosting provider.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez hosting solution is comparable with the previous web hosting service type. Even so, in contrast with the file storage hosting solution, the warez web hosting solution is utilized for circulating licensed work without being green-lighted by the patent holder. In brief - it is related to the illegitimate propagation of files and documents. There are multiple approaches for this to be executed, but the 2 principal ways are - via plain HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first approach involves either a given website, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download copyrighted documents for free. The second way involves a P2P connection, availing of the so-called Torrent web servers, through which users transmit files between each other. There are not many web hosting firms that allow that form of web hosting on their web hosting servers, chiefly due to all the judicial predicaments that it presupposes. Commonly such web pages are hosted on personal dedicated web servers that are registered by 3rd party companies either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Hosting - this service is used with both shared hosting and dedicated web servers, depending on the user's intention. If you want to establish your very own private SMTP email server, then you will need either a virtual hosting server or a dedicated server that offers the level of access required to complete such a task. For routine electronic mail web hosting ends, however, you can set up a simple shared hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a service that's widely used, because the web hosting and the email hosting services are being served by 2 separate servers, often belonging to different web hosts.

Hosting - the most widely spread and regularly utilized hosting service today. It's used for hosting web site files, whose sort depends on the OS the hosting server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files necessitate concrete server Operating Systems, or else they won't be exhibited appropriately on the World Wide Web. This type of web hosting may involve data space and bandwidth limitations, root-level access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Depending on the goals and on the objectives, the user should select the kind of hosting server that he needs for his work, and, of course, the web hosting supplier that's going to supply it. There are several sorts of hosting servers, based on the specs and the website hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Website Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server supplies a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, is manifested in the price of the service. It can be used for hosting small and medium size websites, which do not need considerable amounts of server storage space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they operate on the very same principle as the shared web hosting servers. However, there are much fewer clients sharing the same hosting server. Because of that, each of them will receive a greater quota of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, disk storage space, web traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting big sites that do not require complete root-level access.

VPS are ideal for middle size web sites, which do demand root-level access to the web hosting server's configuration files. Commonly, there are a few VPS web hosting server accounts located on the same machine. Nevertheless, each of them is autonomous from the others and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated web hosting server configured and accessed by you and only you. It ensures a colossal amount of resources. It also includes complete server root access, which renders it an ideal platform for any type of web page that needs a website hosting solution.

The sole question that's left is:

Which web hosting vendor should I choose?

As already mentioned, there are not many web hosts providing warez hosting services due to judicial predicaments. Such hosts are being closed down almost every month. For that reason, if you desire to offer such a service, you should do it on your own computer. The shared website hosting service is the most famous kind of hosting service. Hence, each and every website hosting company offers it. Not all of them, however, provide services such as VPS hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated servers. Most of the smaller website hosting distributors do not have the resources required for maintaining those services. You can quickly identify such hosting companies by the kinds of services that they are supplying and by the manner in which they present them to the clients. For example, some companies permit you to commence with a small scale website hosting plan and afterwards move to a more powerful one, if you find it necessary to do so. This is quite suitable, since you do not have to transmit sites between web hosting servers and there is no risk of experiencing service downtime because of all the problems that may show up.

We, at Webtanium provide all types of services and have the adequate web hosting server resources and personnel to assure that their customers will not come across any problems when changing services, which is what a top hosting corporation is actually all about.