How Does Shared Hosting Work?

As its name hints, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting web content. There are various varieties and kinds of hosting, depending on the purpose and on the functions. Still, they all are associated with hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available throughout the Web. A host is in fact a web server that is connected to the World Wide Web and has its own personal IP address, which permits users to get access to it through the Internet. The server's configuration and its limitations are dependent on the sort of hosting service it will be utilized for.

What are the different types of web hosting?

Based on the usage, the web hosting service may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of web hosting enables the clients to accommodate their files on a given server. With the customary file web hosting solution, the files that are accommodated may only be accessed by the client that's using the service. This hosting solution normally involves backups of PCs , docs, private files and even other hosting servers. This solution may also include given restrictions when it comes to the web storage space and the root-level access. There may also be web traffic limitations, but that depends on the particular provider.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting solution is comparable with the previous hosting service type. Nevertheless, in contrast with the file storage hosting service, the warez web hosting service is used for transmitting proprietary work without being okayed by the license owner. In short - it involves the illicit propagation of files and docs. There are multiple methods for this to be brought about, but the two main ways are - through simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and via P2P connections. The first way involves either a given website, or, most typically, simply a directory on a web hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download licensed documents for free. The second method involves a P2P connection, utilizing the so-called Torrent web servers, via which people exchange files between each other. There aren't many web hosting corporations that allow that type of web hosting on their hosting servers, chiefly because of all the judicial entanglements that it involves. Typically such web sites are hosted on personal dedicated web servers that are registered by 3rd party companies either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Email Hosting - this solution is utilized with both shared web hosting and dedicated web servers, based on the client's wish. If you would like to establish your very own private SMTP server, then you will require either a private virtual web hosting server or a dedicated hosting server that provides the access level required to complete such an operation. For typical e-mail hosting purposes, however, you can create a conventional shared hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a service that's widely popular, because the web hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by two separate web servers, usually belonging to separate web hosts.

Shared Hosting - the most widespread and extensively used hosting service now. It's used for hosting web site files, whose sort is determined by the OS the server is running - Linux or Windows. Different types of files request different server Operating Systems, or else they won't be displayed accurately on the World Wide Web. This form of web hosting may contain disk space and bandwidth quota limitations, root-level access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the purpose and on the objectives, the user should pick the kind of web hosting server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the web hosting distributor that's going to provide it. There are various sorts of servers, depending on the specifications and the hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Website Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server supplies a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, reflects on the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small size and middle size online portals, which do not need enormous quotas of data space and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they function on the same principle as the shared web servers. However, there are much less clients sharing the same hosting server. Because of that, each of them will enjoy a larger quota of the server's resources like RAM, disk storage space, web traffic and CPU. Perfect for hosting big web portals that do not require root access.

Virtual private servers are ideal for medium size web pages, which do need root-level access to the hosting server's config files. Commonly, there are a few virtual private web hosting server accounts hosted on the same physical machine. Even so, each of them is autonomous from the other ones and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated web hosting server set up and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures a mammoth amount of resources. It also gives root-level access, which makes it the optimal environment for any type of web page that needs a web hosting service.

The sole question that remains is:

Which hosting distributor should I opt for?

As already stated, there are very few companies providing warez web hosting solutions because of legal troubles. Such hosts are being shut down almost every month. For that reason, if you want to create such a service, you should do it on your very own PC. The shared website hosting service is the most widely spread type of hosting service. For that reason, each and every website hosting supplier provides it. Not all of them, though, provide solutions such as VPS hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the small sized web hosting firms do not have the resources demanded for offering those solutions. You can easily ID such hosts by the types of solutions that they are making available and by the manner in which they introduce them to the customers. For instance, some web hosts allow you to begin with a low-end web hosting account and afterwards move to a more powerful one, if you consider it necessary to do so. This is quite suitable, because you do not need to move web sites between web hosting servers and there is no risk of facing service outages because of all the complications that may crop up.

We, at Vitohosting offer all sorts of solutions and possess the needed web hosting server resources and staff to assure that their clients will not come across any complications when swapping services, which is what a top hosting distributor is in fact all about.