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Web Hosting Guide For Beginner
irst and foremost, for Here, web hosting provider would
non-IT savvy, it might be a be the house owner who rents you
little tough for them to the room. So, in order for your
comprehend the meaning of web website to be available and
hosting. I believe if you search browsed by Internet users, you
it on any search engine, of need to make sure your website is
course there will be answer and hosted in a web server provided
explanation for them. But, how by a web hosting provider.
far do you really understand?
Honestly, when I first get to So, when you finally understand
know this term few years back, I what web hosting is, next will be
had problem understanding myself. the time to find out more about
Then, I found one simple the different types of web
explanation that might be easy hosting available. You have
for people to understand. So, shared hosting, dedicated
today, if anyone were to ask me hosting, reseller hosting, VPS
what is "web hosting", i'd hosting, and colocation hosting.
explain as follows... You name it, the Internet has it!
So many to remember and
Imagine you are homeless and you differentiate..so, let's get the
want to rent a room or buy a ball rolling with...
house. In order to get a shelter
for yourself, you need a room. Shared Hosting
So, you imagine yourself as the Shared hosting means that a web
website and the room as the server has its resources shared
hosting that you need to place by many other websites. Or you
yourself in. That means your can put it as, in a house, there
website need a web hosting. Then, are many tenants. Usually small
that's the time you start finding or normal e-commerce businesses
yourself a web hosting provider. will choose this type of hosting.
Websites with high traffic might that you provide your own server
not be able to choose this type and web hosting provider just
of hosting due to insufficient help you to plug it into their
webspace. datacentre. You need to install
own software and hardwares.
Dedicated Hosting Everything is DIY.
Dedicated hosting refers to
hosting in which you rent a Reseller Hosting
server from your web hosting Reseller Hosting is a hosting
provider and will be placed at where the account owner has the
your web hosting provider's priviledge to allocate the
datacentre. They will provide webspace and bandwidth access and
software installation and resell them to his clients. This
connection to Internet. This will shows that reseller hosts act
indicates that the website owner like a middleman and is usually
has control over the server as not responsible for any software
they don't share it with other or hardware intallation. They
websites. In short, dedicated only buy webspace and resell to
hosting is where only 1 user clients.
hosted on the server machine and
have a full privilege over the VPS Hosting
server to manage it by themself. VPS stands for Virtual Private
The server machine will be still Server. It is almost the same as
belongs to the web hosting dedicated server. Hence, it's
provider. sometimes called Virtual
Dedicated Server. Generally, it
Colocation Hosting means that the account owner has
Well, this hosting has the the feeling as though his owns a
features which are almost the dedicated server. In real sense,
same as dedicated hosting EXCEPT it's actually separating a
physical server into several type in the "address" area when
independent hosting spaces or you open a browser. Examples of
VPS-es, each isolated from the domain name are "exabytes.com".
other. This will allow you to You know? Just the normal web
create and manage multiple sites address. Well, since it's a web
and domains and take full control address, it's a unique name.
of your VPS with Hence, there will be no other
root/administrator access which same domain name. In fact, domain
allows you to access the virtual name is actually corresponding
hard disk, RAM and to reboot your with numeric IP address. So,
private server independently from every domain name will have its
other VPS-es. numeric IP address. For example,
the IP address for exabytes.com
Domain Name is 72.18.131.206
After we are done with the
different types of hosting, there When you see exabytes.com, ever
is something else which I want to wonder ".com" stands for what? It
touch on. It is none other than actually stands for commercial.
the "domain name". So, ever Whenever you see .com, .org, .net
wonder what is domain name? Wow, or others which ends after the
sounds technical? Not really final dot or period (.) of a url,
actually. Don't be scared. Last it is known as top-level domain.
time, when I saw the words domain It actually tells you what kind
name, it freaked me out too. Now, of website it is, indirectly. And
when I got used to it, it's not the commonly used domain name
that nerve-wracking after all. extension nowadays will be .org,
.net, .com. However, there are a
So, domain name is just the lot of new domain extension up
normal web address or url for grab lately such as .aero,
(Uniform Resource Locator) you .info, .museum, and .name. Next
in the list that I shall explain for Canada.
is, Country Level Domain Name.
Examples of country level domain There are more to learn in order
name is exabytes.com.my. It has to excel in web hosting industry.
".my" as its country code Hopefully this simple guide will
top-level domain (ccTLD). .my help all those novice out there.
here represents the country There are other things you need
"Malaysia". Of course, different to know as well. But, it will be
country will have different in my next article. Cheers!
ccTLD. For example, .jp stands
for Japan, .au for Australia, .ca
About the Author:
Ho SY - Online Marketer of the web hosting company - http://www.exabytes.com
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