Hosting Description

If you wish to build a site and render it accessible to the whole world, it needs to be located on a web hosting server. The name of this service is hosting.

Host your web site at home or somewhere else

You could host your website on your own PC at home or at work, on a personal computer which belongs to an acquaintance of yours, and so on. If it is a web site for testing purposes, there would be no real reason for you to search for a more reliable web hosting service than that. If you wish to establish a real website, though, which will be accessible to numerous visitors and you want to make it reliable, you will also require a stable web hosting server where you will host it.

Why do you require a server for your website?

When you have a web site, it is hosted on a physical machine. That physical server has its own physical address known also as IP address. Writing the IP of the machine in your browser's address bar, though, is not the best and simplest means to reach a web site. That is how and why domain names appeared and why you need one for your site. So, to set up your web site, you need your own domain and a web hosting server to host your site on.

Hosting your site on your own

If you are an IT specialist and understand how to manage a web server, you can have a hosting server of your very own and host your web site on it. This will enable you to exert complete control over the hosting server, to implement server configuration modifications and to apply software updates yourself instead of relying on the data center staff. The drawback, however, is that you will need to guarantee the uptime of your web site and to take care of all server maintenance procedures yourself. If you are making use of a licensed OS, you will also have to spend cash on the license, which usually costs more if bought for an entire physical machine.

Using a web hosting provider

If you don't want to take care of server maintenance procedures, the wisest step to take is to sign up for an account with a web hosting packages provider. These are companies that offer customers powerful hosting servers with various hardware configurations for a given fee. The hosting servers are located in datacenters with special cooling and emergency power systems to guarantee continuous Internet access.

Types of web hosting services

The Internet is a broad ocean and there are lots of hosting service providers providing different hosting services to the multitude of web site owners out there. The hosting services range from free-of-charge hosting services, where you can host basic, HTML-based web sites, to high-priced dedicated hosting services that can suck your funds dry. So, what type of web hosting fits your requirements?

If you have a small or medium-sized web page that has a few hundred guests max, you could safely avail of a shared web hosting solution. Shared hosting suggests that lots of shared web hosting accounts and websites are accommodated on one and the very same hosting server, thus decreasing the price of the service. Shared hosting accounts usually include central processing unit, memory, web traffic and server disk drive space quotas to guarantee that the web sites accommodated on the server do not meddle with each other and do not use more resources than they are allocated.

In case your site is larger, you should opt for a VPS hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. It offers full root privileges, which permits you to make server configuration changes - something that would be impossible on a shared hosting web server. The VPSs also offer burstable RAM options. Separate RAM and CPU portions are assigned to each single virtual web server, without anyone else utilizing them. Usually there are other VPSs apart from yours that utilize the resources of the physical server, which could occasionally influence the overall performance, but in the majority of situations it's of no concern. Should the system resources of the VPS web hosting server, however, be inadequate for your needs, it is apparently time to move to a dedicated hosting server.

The dedicated servers is a physical server that you lease, which is used solely by you for your own personal web site needs. No one else uses its system resources and you gain root access, can select a hardware architecture in advance, add updates later on and install RAM or hard drives. Unlike with the VPSs where virtualization is mainly at the Operating System level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated server you can update the kernel of the Operating System (typically Linux-based) too.

Choose your web hosting provider

If you have a notion of what your web site is going to include, or if you have just a vague plan that has not completely matured yet, your very first move towards the creation of your web site should be to find a hosting provider. The most relevant step to take is to find a service provider that furnishes an immense variety of website hosting services so that you do not have to swap web hosting service providers in case you first avail of a shared hosting solution and then outgrow the shared hosting resources and have to switch to a virtual web server solution or a dedicated web server. We, for instance, provide cut-price shared website hosting packages, low-priced OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based VPS web server hosting packages, semi-dedicated servers with their own hosting Control Panel user interface and even dedicated server web hosting packages. We also offer free bounties - the shared website hosting cheap domain name if they are paid for on a yearly basis, the more powerful private virtual hosting server plans and dedicated server plans include a free domain reseller account and billing software should you wish to use them for reselling purposes. Throw in the exceptional round-the-clock support service and you have all you would normally require. You could, of course, find other web hosts depending on what exactly you are searching for, by conducting an online survey or by examining different hosting reviews. The most intelligent option, though, is a web hosting solutions provider that is also a domain name registrar and has hosting servers in more than one country - both requirements met by us. We have servers in the United States, in England and in Australia, and offer a plethora of domain name extensions for registration.