How Website Hosting Works

Website hosting is a type of online service that enables persons and companies to render their online portals accessible on the World Wide Web. Hosting providers are companies that offer space on a server placed in a datacenter facility and guarantee constant Internet access.

Where do you start?

The World Wide Web is a key component of our everyday life. It gives you the chance to make extra money, but can also be a chief source of revenue. In order to put commercials on your site or to popularize a product that you offer, you invariably require a hosting service, which will make sure that your web site is protected and constantly visible. But how do you discover one that is cheap and yet dependable enough?

The shared web hosting solution

The solution hosting firms have come up with is called shared web hosting. With the shared web hosting solution, numerous hosting users are accommodated on one and the very same web server. There are austere restrictions on the resources that each user account can actually make use of, thus making sure that they do not interfere with each other. The shared hosting solution offers good performance and costs less than, let's say, a dedicated hosting web server, which is utilized by just one single individual. The shared hosting solution allows website hosting service providers to offer their customers affordable prices. It ordinarily comes with user-friendly Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at Start Hosts provide, and permits everybody to administer their online portals without bothering about server setup and maintenance procedures, which are handled solely by the hosting packages provider.

VPS web hosting

With the VPS web hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical machine with other private virtual server web hosting account owners, but you are allocated a dedicated share of the resources. The VPS server solution is the middle ground between the much cheaper shared hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated web hosting solution, and is a very good option for anyone who wishes to set up, for example, an audio or video streaming web site or a community web portal. The fact that you have to cope with the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a downside, but this could also be a huge benefit if you really have to implement some server configuration modifications - something that would be impossible on a shared web hosting server.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Dedicated web hosting servers are in the majority of cases much more high-priced than shared web hosting or VPS server hosting solutions. You might wonder why would anyone use a dedicated web hosting server then? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a resource-intensive web page, or simply has very special web server setup and security requirements, the most sensible option is a dedicated web server that you or your admins can manage directly. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is not a problem. You gain complete server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your web pages.