Web Hosting
Web hosting allows companies to get their business on the web making it accessible to a whole new audience and hopefully for them a whole new range of customers. Web hosting companies allow businesses to buy a space on their server to run their websites off, as well as providing this space web hosting companies will also give client an internet connection.
The server themselves are large hard drive disks with a number of disks connected to them, these disks are the parts that are rented or brought by companies. For every separate server they have a different IP, Internet Protocol, which is linked to the URL in order to get on the site on the internet. There are a number of different types of web hosting, some include;
Reseller web hosting - this is where the client becomes the web host themselves, as part of their package they are able to sell their web space to others to make a profit. This form of web hosting is mostly used by companies operating in web design or web developers etc, this is due to them offering web hosting as an add-on feature.
Free web hosting service - this will be a very small amount of web hosting with limited services compared to others, part of the package is often supported by advertising.
Shared web hosting - this is when a website is put on a server with a number of other sites, this means that all the site will share a number of the same features e.g. the RAM, random access memory. As there are a number of sites on one server it means that they all share the overall cost of the server - meaning it's a good choice if you don't want to spend a lot on hosting.
Managed hosting service - this allows the costumer to get their own web server, however they aren't able to have the whole control over the server, this is so the hosting company can still provide them with the best service. Taking out managing hosting service allows you to take care of your own data and management tools.
Choosing what kind of web hosting service that best suits you will come down to a number of features, this includes; your data software, your operating system and the scripting software that you use. You will find that most web hosting companies offer web hosting along with a number of different software's to use with it, this could therefore solve any problems about making them work together.
