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What is web hosting? - EXPLAINED

If you are searching for:What is hosting? or Which is the best hosting to start a new blog or website?or What are the types of Web hosting? Then you are at the right place, in this article, we are going to discuss all of these questions related to web-hosting. So you will get all the answers of questions related to hosting.



Hosting (or web-hosting) can be defined as a computer which is used to store all the data of your website or blog online, or, it is a location of your website on internet, an online storage where you can store all the data of your website like: images, posts, and all other data that your website have. In other words, it is a computer which hosts your blog or your website.







Hosting is a web-based service that makes a website or a blog globally accessible from the internet. It is commonly provided by a web hosting service provider. If you are going to make a website or starting a new blog, it is necessary to buy a good hosting plan so you can make online presence for your blog / website. So the next question is, What are the types of web hosting?






Types of Hosting


Let us discuss some major types of web-hosting packages:


1. VPS (Virtual Private Server)




 





Virtual private server aka VPS hosting is the form of hosting where it mimics a dedicated server within a shared hosting environment.  It is technically both dedicated hosting and shared hosting. In VPS hosting one physical web hosting server hosts many virtual servers. each isolated from others. Benefits of VPS hosting are more Stability, Faster speeds and more resources (disk space, RAM and CPU ).







 



Reseller web hosting is a form of web hosting where one company (a hosting service provider) renting a hard drive space and bandwidth to another company (Reseller) who then rents it to customers.  The reseller purchases the host's services in wholesale and then sells them to consumers, Possibly for a profit.




3. SEO web hosting








SEO web hosting is a type of web hosting where the optimization, traffic and sales of a website is increased by using some traditional and non- traditional methods. It improves a website's traffic with some seo friendly services.





4. Shared web-hosting







Shared web hosting is one of the cheapest and common type of web-hosting service available.  Shared hosting means that one server and its available resources are shared among many websites, it allows many websites to use a single server. Usually a user has no who or what website he is sharing the resources of a server with. Each customer's total amount of resources are limited, that can be defined by the hosting package.  It is a less expensive way to create a website. It also has two types: a. Linux shared hosting and b. Windows shared hosting








Cloud-hosting is an alternative to hosting websites on a single server. It is a new technology in the hosting field that allow numerous of independent web servers work with each other. 
A cloud server is a virtual server running in cloud computing environment. In cloud-hosting, a virtual hardware, storage,
network and composite solutions from a cloud vendor is used. Cloud hosting can offer you faster speeds than regular hosting.



6. Dedicated server Hosting

A dedicated hosting service, or a dedicated server is a single computer in network which is reserved for only one network. it is not shared with anyone else. This is better than shared hosting, as it provides full control over the servers. It offers high performance, security and service, but, it is more expensive than other types of hosting. So it is used mostly by those websites which receives high traffic.

These are some major types of web-hosting which are commonly used. Some of the other forms of hosting servers which we haven't included in this article are: 

  • Managed hosting etc.


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