Description of Website Hosting

As its name denotes, website hosting is a service, which entails hosting web content. There are different varieties and types of web hosting, based on the goals and on the objectives. Still, they all entail hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the World Wide Web. A host is actually a web server that is linked to the Internet and has its own personal Internet Protocol address, which enables users to get access to it through the World Wide Web. The web hosting server's configuration and its limitations depend on the form of web hosting service it will be used for.

What are the different forms of hosting?

Depending on the goal, the professional hosting service may be:

File Web Hosting - this type of hosting allows the customers to store their files on a specific server. With the conventional file storage web hosting solution, the files that are deposited may only be accessed by the user that's utilizing the service. This hosting solution mainly pertains to backups of PCs , docs, private files and even other web servers. This service may also include certain limits with regard to the data storage and the root privileges. There may also be traffic restrictions, but that is dependent on the particular host.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is comparable with the previous hosting service form. Still, unlike the file web hosting solution, the warez web hosting service is utilized for distributing copyrighted materials without being given the green light by the copyright possessor. In brief - it is related to the illegal propagation of files and documents. There are a lot of methods for this to be carried out, but the 2 main methods are - through simple HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first one involves either a given website, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thereby download licensed content free of charge. The second method involves a P2P connection, availing of the so-called Torrent servers, via which people swap files between each other. There are not many web hosting vendors that permit such form of hosting on their hosting servers, mainly due to all the judicial complications that it presupposes. Generally such web portals are hosted on personal dedicated web servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Mail Web Hosting - this solution is relevant with both shared hosting and dedicated hosting servers, depending on the customer's desire. If you desire to launch your own private SMTP electronic mail server, then you will require either a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated web hosting server that provides the level of access needed to complete such a task. For standard e-mail web hosting ends, however, you can open a normal shared website hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a solution that's widely popular, since the web hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by 2 different web servers, often belonging to separate web hosting providers.

Website Hosting - the most famous and broadly used hosting service now. It's utilized for hosting site files, whose sort is dependent on the Operating System the server is availing of - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files need concrete server Operating Systems, or else they won't be exhibited accurately on the World Wide Web. This type of hosting may involve server storage and web traffic quota limitations, server root access and CPU usage limitations.

Depending on the aims and on the functions, the customer should pick the sort of hosting server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the hosting vendor that's going to furnish it. There are different kinds of web servers, depending on the configuration and the web hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server includes a smaller amount of system resources, which, of course, is reflected on the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small scale and medium web portals, which do not require enormous amounts of data storage and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting - they are based on the same principle as the shared web hosting servers. However, there are much fewer customers hosted on the same hosting server. Therefore, each of them will obtain a greater quota of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, storage space, bandwidth and CPU. Ideal for hosting immense web pages that do not need complete server root access.

VPS web hosting are excellent for medium scale websites, which do demand root access to the hosting server's configuration files. Traditionally, there are a bunch of Virtual Private Server hosting accounts placed on the same machine. Even so, each of them is autonomous from the others and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Web Hosting - a completely dedicated machine configured and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures a tremendous amount of system resources. It also gives root access, which renders it a perfect environment for any sort of online portal that requires a web hosting service.

The sole question that remains is:

Which web hosting distributor should I pick?

As already stated, there are very few providers providing warez web hosting solutions because of legal entanglements. Such providers are being shut down almost every month. Therefore, if you desire to launch such a service, you should do it on your very own computer. The shared hosting service is the most popular type of web hosting service. For that reason, every website hosting corporation offers it. Not all of them, however, offer services such as VPS hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Web Hosting and dedicated web servers. Most of the smaller website hosting companies do not have the resources demanded for maintaining those services. You can quickly identify such web hosts by the sorts of services that they are offering and by the manner in which they present them to the clientele. For instance, some providers allow you to commence with a low-end website hosting plan and afterwards upgrade to a more powerful one, if you find it compulsory to do so. This is quite suitable, because you do not need to relocate web portals between servers and there is no risk of experiencing outages because of all the problems that may occur.

We, at Tellus Hosting offer all sorts of services and possess the necessary hosting server resources and staff to assure that their clients will not encounter any problems when swapping services, which is what a top hosting vendor is actually all about.