ver the years, I have had however web hosting can be a bit
a countless number of my more complicated, as it has
customers ask me; "What is different types of services. I
Web Hosting". I would explain it will explain some of the few
to them, but most of them would services offered by web hosting
have a difficult time grasping providers, such as shared
the concept, so I thought why not hosting, reseller hosting,
associate it with another virtual private servers,
industry, that everyone knows dedicated servers and colocation
about and has similar hosting, along with the domain
characteristics. Think of Real name registration.
Estate. There are different types
of Real Estate; homes, condo's, Shared Hosting
commercial, etc. So whenever a
customer asks me to define Web Shared hosting is basically a web
Hosting, I simply tell them: server that has its resources
shared by other customers. Or you
"Web hosting providers are a lot could say, a home that is shared
like a high-rise apartment by different roommates. Normally
building. You pay a monthly fee this is the starting point for
for space in the apartment most small businesses and
building. In web hosting, think e-commerce web sites.
of the apartment building as the
server, and the packages as Reseller Hosting
apartment units, which you pay a
monthly fee for. You're basically Reseller hosting is a service
renting out space on the where an account owner has the
Internet." opportunity to allocate the
resources given to them to resell
That's the basic jift of it all, to their clients. Basically, the
account holder, called a Dedicated hosting refers to when
"reseller" acts as a middleman an account holder rents an entire
and is not responsible for web server from the web hosting
software or hardware provider. The web hosting
installation, they concentrate on provider only provides the
providing their customers with a hardware, initial operating
working service. system installation, redundant
power and connection to the
Virtual Private Server Internet. The account holder has
full control of the server as it
VPS stands for Virtual Private isn't shared with any other
Server. It acts similar to a customer. In short, a dedicated
dedicated server. Generally, an server is administrated by a
account owner has the feeling and single customer, and has to
function of a dedicated server, manage the server on their own.
however, it's actually seperating The actual server is still owned
a physical server into serveral to the web hosting provider.
independent dedicated servers,
each isolated from one another. Colocation Hosting
This will allow you to create and
manage multiple web sites and Colocation hosting is for very
domains and take full control of experienced customers, usually
your VPS with root/administrative corporations, banks, medical
access. You share the main centers, etc. A web hosting
servers (which is called a provider (also called a
"Node") resources such as hard "Colocation Provider") provides
disk, RAM/Memory, CPU. you with space, power and
Internet connectivity. The
Dedicated Servers account holder must provide all
Ethernet cables, power cables,
servers and switching/routing do not need a domain name to
equipment. host, but in order to
personalize/customize to your
Domain Name business, domain names are
offered.
Domain names are essentially
alias' for IP numbers. The I hope that this guide to web
Internet is made up of IP (short hosting for beginners has been a
for "Internet Protocol") numbers. real guide. There is obviously a
Domain names were created so that lot more involved in the world of
people can remember them. Imagine web hosting, but this is a good
reading this on a billboard on start!
the Interstate; "Visit us on
11.222.333.444 today". While you
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