hat is virtual web company needs many web servers or
hosting? When you visit computers to store the websites.
a website, what you are All of these web servers are
looking at on your web browser is linked to the Internet through
simply a web page that has been high speed Internet connection
downloaded from the virtual web and housed in a data center.
server onto your web browser. A There must be a guarantee that
website is usually made up of all of the web servers are safe,
many web pages. These web pages secure and are fully operational
are made up of texts and graphic at all times. Therefore, a data
images. All of these web pages center is a physically secure
must be stored on the virtual web 24/7 environment with fire
servers so that users who are protection, redundant power
online can visit your website. backup, computer data backup,
virus detections, and complete
If you are planning to own a new disaster recovery capabilities.
website, you will need to host it There are four main kinds of
on a virtual web server. When virtual web hosting companies
your website gets placed on the available each having different
virtual web server, then online characteristics. They can be
users can browse your website on organized into the following
the Internet. Companies that categories:
provide the web servers that will
host your website are called 1. Shared hosting
virtual web hosting providers.
In this type of virtual hosting,
A well-established virtual web many websites are sharing space
hosting provider can easily host on the same web servers.
up to thousands of websites. Depending on what kind of virtual
Therefore, a virtual web hosting web host it is, a physical web
server can host up to a thousand month. This is often used by
different websites at one time. high traffic and very important
Since the physical web server is websites.
shared by many websites, the
virtual web hosting provider can 3. Co-location hosting
afford to offer low hosing
prices. Websites on this shared With virtual dedicated hosting,
virtual hosting plan would have the web server belongs to the
to be satisfied to accept slower providers and customers only rent
server response time. These the web server. However, in
plans normally start at $5 - $20 co-location hosting, the client
a month. owns the web server hardware.
The customer has full control,
2. Dedicated hosting therefore, over their web server
and benefits from the 24/7 server
Dedicated virtual web hosting monitoring and maintenance that
assigns a certain web server to is provided by the secure data
be used by a single customer. center. Co-location virtual
Since a dedicated virtual web hosting can range from $500 -
server is allocated to only one $1000 a month depending on the
customer, he/she has the option rack space that is required and
to host either single or multiple the monthly bandwidth.
websites, handle greater site
traffic, modify the software 4. Reseller hosting
configuration, and scale the
bandwidth if necessary. In virtual reseller hosting, a
Dedicated virtual hosting is web hosting provider will offer
quite a bit more expensive and web server storage to a third
starts at $50 a month and can party at a discount price. The
easily range from $200 - $500 a third party then resells the web
server storage to their clients. resells the web hosting as an
Resellers are usually web add-on service to augment their
consultants who include web other range of services.
developers, web designers, or a
system integration company who
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