Shared Hosting Description

As its name suggests, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting online content. There are various varieties and types of hosting, depending on the aims and on the functions. Still, they all refer to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Internet. A host is in fact a server that is connected to the Web and has its own Internet Protocol address, which allows users to access it via the Web. The web hosting server's architecture and its system resources are dependent on the type of hosting solution it's going to be used for.

What are the different types of web hosting?

Depending on the function, the business website hosting solution may be:

File Hosting - this type of web hosting allows the customers to lodge their files on a certain hosting server. With the routine file hosting service, the files that are stashed may only be accessed by the user that's availing of the service. This hosting solution typically applies to backups of computers , docs, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also involve certain restrictions when it comes to the disk storage and the root privileges. There may also be bandwidth limits, but that is dependent on the actual provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is resembling the previous hosting service form. In spite of that, unlike the file storage hosting service, the warez hosting solution is used for circulating proprietary materials without being given the okay to do so by the patent proprietor. To cut a long story short - it is related to the forbidden distribution of files and documents. There are a lot of ways for this to be attained, but the two chief approaches are - through simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through P2P connections. The first approach entails either a given web page, or, most often, just a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thereby download copyrighted content for free. The second approach involves a peer-to-peer connection, using the so-called Torrent servers, through which people exchange files between each other. There are not many website hosting distributors that allow such form of web hosting on their hosting servers, chiefly because of all the judicial complications that it entails. Generally such web pages are hosted on personal dedicated web hosting servers that are registered by third-party enterprises either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Hosting - this solution is applicable with both shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the customer's desire. If you desire to have your very own private SMTP e-mail server, then you will require either a private virtual server or a dedicated server that provides the level of access needed to carry out such a task. For typical mail web hosting purposes, however, you can set up an ordinary shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's very famous, because the website hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by two separate web servers, often owned by different hosts.

Shared Hosting - the most widespread and extensively utilized hosting service nowadays. It's used for hosting website files, whose kind depends on the OS the hosting server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files request concrete hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be displayed accurately on the World Wide Web. This type of hosting may impose server storage and traffic limitations, server root access and central processing unit usage limits.

Based on the aims and on the objectives, the client should select the type of web hosting server that he demands for his project, and, of course, the website hosting corporation that's going to supply it. There are several types of hosting servers, depending on the specs and the web hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server offers a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, is manifested in the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small scale and medium sized sites, which do not require vast quantities of disk storage space and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they operate on the very same principle as the shared website hosting servers. However, there are much fewer customers accommodated on the same server. Hence, each of them will receive a larger quota of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, web storage space, traffic and CPU. Perfect for hosting popular online portals that do not require root access.

VPS hosting are ideal for medium scale web sites, which do demand root-level access to the web server's configuration files. Typically, there are a number of virtual web server hosting accounts sharing the same physical server. In spite of that, each of them is isolated from the rest and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Hosting - a fully dedicated machine set up and accessed by you and solely you. It guarantees a large amount of system resources. It also offers full root-level access, which makes it an ideal solution for any type of web page that demands a web hosting solution.

The sole question that remains is:

Which website hosting supplier should I opt for?

As stated above, there are very few hosting companies providing warez hosting services because of judicial troubles. Such hosts are being closed down virtually every month. Therefore, if you wish to set up such a service, you should do it on your own PC. The shared website hosting service is the most widespread type of hosting service. That is why, each website hosting distributor offers it. Not all of them, however, provide services such as virtual web servers, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated servers. Most of the small sized website hosting corporations do not have the resources demanded for maintaining those services. You can effortlessly ID such hosting companies by the sorts of solutions that they are making available and by the way that they present them to the customers. For instance, some companies allow you to commence with a low-end web hosting package and subsequently upgrade to a more advanced one, if you find it compulsory to do so. This is extremely convenient, because you do not need to transmit web portals between web hosting servers and there is no chance of suffering service downtime because of all the complications that may crop up.

We, at Domains Depot provide all kinds of solutions and possess the necessary server resources and staff to ensure that their clients will not face any hassles when swapping services, which is what a top hosting provider is actually all about.