How Hosting Works

Hosting is a service that hosting distributors offer so that you can publish your web site on the Internet.

How can people discover your web site?

When you set up a site and you would like other people to discern it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a hosting server. If you try to render the web site discoverable on the web by hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it always online, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does hosting work?

Hosting firms provide you with storage space for your website on their high-power computers (servers) and guarantee continuous service uptime. When somebody writes your domain name (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the hosting server where they can take a glimpse at the content of your web site.

Types of hosting

With the growth of online technologies, different types of web hosting services have appeared to answer the various requirements of website proprietors, including shared website hosting services, private virtual server web hosting services and dedicated server web hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared website hosting is the most commonly used form of hosting, and is also the easiest to begin with. It is a service where one single hosting server is divided between plenty of web hosting account holders who are limited by the CPU, web traffic and web hosting space quotas that they have been allotted. This type of web hosting is typically cheaper - you don't have to purchase the entire hosting server in advance, as it is divided among lots of hosting account holders, and the hosting services provider can afford to provide much lower prices. It is also much easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-installed with all the required software and the web hosting provider takes care of all server maintenance procedures and security updates for you.

The setback of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other hosting account holders and if one site becomes really busy it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the web sites on that server, but most web hosts, including us at GlobalNet WebHosting - Hepsia Control Panel, have protection systems at work that impede that from occurring.

A description of a hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most popular type of web hosting, most web hosting providers and hosting users simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense rivalry on the hosting marketplace, most hosting suppliers try to provide moderate prices and gifts with their web hosting services. We, for example, provide different web hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you select the annual invoicing cycle, you will obtain a bonus - one charge-free domain registration.

VPS packages

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated web hosting solution. If your website outgrows the resources offered by your shared website hosting package, a private virtual hosting server package is an appropriate solution. VPS hosting users still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other private virtual web server hosting account holders, but the disk drive is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like an actual dedicated web server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a virtual private web hosting server are not shared. Besides, the virtualization technology gives you much more autonomy to configure your private virtual server, but it also presupposes a higher degree of technical expertise.

Dedicated Package

With the Dedicated Package solution, the customer gets a whole dedicated hosting server and can utilize all its system resources. The dedicated server hosting solution is the most flexible of all web hosting solutions and offers loads of customization possibilities - the dedicated web server hosting users can select the hardware and software specifications that will answer their requirements. Dedicated system resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated web server is a perfect option for a heavy resource-consuming business web portal, for instance - you will not share the hosting server's resources with anyone else and will gain full root-level access. You will exert full authority over the server, which will enable you to make any server configuration modifications that you might require. The setback of the dedicated hosting solution is that a higher degree of technical proficiency is required - unless you engage an IT professional, it will be your obligation to administer and configure the physical server. The dedicated hosting solution is also far more expensive, because the cost of the server isn't shared between any other users.

A web hosting recommendation for novices

If you are just beginning to set up your website and are searching for a hosting solution to start with, the shared website hosting solution remains the wisest choice. If your website outgrows your website hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and does not necessitate migration of your website files, since only the features of your account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting plan to a more advanced one at any given moment without worrying about the number of days remaining until expiration. Additionally, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared web hosting package and still need more system resources (which is great sometimes - it signifies that your website's popularity has grown!), there always is the option to migrate to a VPS server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting platform without having to change web hosting service providers.