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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Web Hosting and Types of Web Hosting

By Aakash Shah

While most of us can design a website and upload any information, news, bulletins, images, files and documents (incl. HTML files, CSS files, graphic files, java scripts etc.), to make the same available for public viewing we need to copy the site to a public server. Such servers are provided by web hosting companies. In short web hosts are companies that allot a particular web space to each of their clients who may then use it for his/her website and in addition provides high speed internet connectivity. The client apart from uploading data of his choice on the website is provided with a mail server to send and receive e-mails.

There can be various types of web hosting services;

Free Web Hosting : It is best suited for small sites like family, hobby or personal sites with low traffic. These have limited security options, database and technical support and most often restricts the domain name to the ones handpicked by them.

Shared Web Hosting : Here, your website is placed on a powerful server with hundred other sites, best for small business sites with an average traffic flow. While it allows one to use a self chosen domain name and multiple software solutions, viz. e-mail, database and editing options, it provides limited security due to all sites put on the same server (which predictable makes it cost effective) and restricted traffic volume for the same reason.

Dedicated Web Hosting : Best meant for large business sites, it provides the user with his/her own web server powerful database and e-mail solutions unlimited software support. It requires more technical skill to operate and the most expensive of all plans but can handle high traffic easily.

Collocated Hosting : It locates your own web server on the premises of a service provider. The hosting company besides providing the physical space also makes available regulated power back up, and dedicated internet access. Although somewhat expensive on the lines of dedicated hosting, colo provides a high bandwidth, security, up time (the percentage of time the web host is accessible via the internet) and unlimited software options.

Home Server : A system operating from home is used for hosting one or more websites.

Managed Hosting Service : The user is provided with his own web server and he is allowed to manage the data via FTP or other remote management tools. However, the service provider does not allow the user full control at any time to avoid any untoward modification or new configuration problems in the server.

Reseller Web Hosting : Clients are allowed to become host themselves and a reseller's account can be enormous in size with their own dedicated server to a collocated server.

Clustered Hosting : It is meant to optimize resource utilization wherein multiple servers host similar content.

Grid Hosting : Here a server cluster as a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.

Virtual Dedicated Server : Herein servers are divided into virtual servers where each user shares his server with many other users but he feels as if he is on a dedicated server.


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