Explanation of Website Hosting

Website hosting is a sort of Internet service that permits individuals and organizations to render their sites reachable online. Web hosting providers are companies that offer hard drive space on a server kept in a datacenter and ensure uninterrupted network uptime.

Where do you begin?

The Internet is a vital factor in everyone's daily life. It gives you the possibility to earn money on the side, but can also be a major source of income. In order to put commercials on your web page or to popularize a product or a service that you sell, you invariably need a hosting service, which will ensure that your web page is secure and constantly available. But how do you discover one that is reasonably priced and yet trustworthy enough?

The shared hosting platform

The solution web hosting suppliers have come up with is called shared hosting. With the shared hosting solution, multiple shared hosting accounts are accommodated on the very same server. There are austere restrictions on the resources that each account can actually resort to, thus guaranteeing that they do not meddle with each other. The shared solution offers decent performance and is less expensive than, let's say, a dedicated server, which is used by only one user. The shared hosting solution enables website hosting providers to offer their customers affordable prices. It typically includes intuitive Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at Host Diversity provide, and allows everybody to administer their web portals without worrying about server installation and maintenance tasks, which are entirely handled by the hosting vendor.

VPS web hosting

With the VPS web hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical server with other virtual private web server hosting customers, but you are allotted a dedicated share of the system resources. The virtual server solution is the middle ground between the much cheaper shared hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated server hosting solution, and is a very good option for anyone who would like to host, for instance, a live streaming site or a social networking site. The circumstance that you have to deal with the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a weakness, but this could also be a huge asset if you indeed need to make some server configuration changes - something that would be unthinkable on a shared hosting web server.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Dedicated web hosting servers are in the majority of cases much more expensive than shared or private virtual web server hosting solutions. You might ask why would anyone want to use a dedicated web server then? The reply is very simple. If your company has a repeatedly visited online portal, or simply has very specific web server configuration and security requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated hosting server that you or your server admins can administer directly. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is not a concern. You receive root privileges and can use 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your websites.