Shared Hosting Unveiled
As its name indicates, shared hosting is a solution, which entails hosting web content. There are different varieties and types of hosting, based on the purpose and on the objectives. In spite of that, they all entail hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available throughout the Web. A host is in fact a web hosting service that is linked to the World Wide Web and has its own personal IP address, which enables users to have access to it through the Web. The web server's configuration and its system resources depend on the form of web hosting solution it will be utilized for.

What are the various types of hosting?

Depending on the usage, the web hosting service may be:

File Hosting - this type of hosting permits the clients to stash their files on a specific hosting server. With the standard file hosting service, the files that are stashed may only be accessed by the user that's using the service. This web hosting solution mainly is connected with backups of PCs , docs, private files and even other servers. This service may also contain given limitations with regard to the disk space and the root access. There may also be web traffic quota limits, but that depends on the actual hosting provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is comparable with the previous hosting service form. Still, unlike the file storage hosting service, the warez web hosting solution is used for distributing copyrighted content without being green-lighted by the patent keeper. To cut a long story short - it is associated with the criminal propagation of files and docs. There are many methods for this to be carried out, but the two main approaches are - through simple HTTP downloading and via P2P connections. The first way involves either some website, or, most often, just a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thus download copyrighted files for free. The second way involves a P2P connection, using the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people share files between each other. There are not many website hosting firms that permit that type of hosting on their web hosting servers, mostly because of all the judicial complications that it involves. Generally such web pages are hosted on personal dedicated servers that are registered by third-party enterprises either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Web Hosting - this solution is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated hosting servers, depending on the customer's wish. If you desire to create your very own private SMTP email server, then you will require either a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated server that provides the level of access required to carry out such an assignment. For traditional email hosting purposes, however, you can utilize a regular shared hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's very popular, because the web hosting and the email hosting services are being served by two separate servers, usually owned by different hosts.

Shared Hosting - the most popular and vastly used hosting service now. It's utilized for hosting website files, whose type depends on the Operating System the web server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files demand concrete server Operating Systems, otherwise they won't be exhibited accurately on the Web. This type of hosting may have server storage and traffic quota limits, root access and CPU usage limitations.

Based on the aims and on the objectives, the client should choose the kind of web hosting server that he requires for his work, and, of course, the web hosting provider that's going to supply it. There are different sorts of web servers, depending on the specifications and the website hosting services that they offer. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server offers a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, reflects on the price of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small and middle scale online portals, which do not require considerable quotas of server storage space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they function on the same principle as the shared hosting servers. Yet, there are much less customers accommodated on the same web hosting server. Therefore, each of them will have a larger share of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, web storage, web traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting heavy sites that do not require complete server root access.

Virtual private servers are excellent for medium scale sites, which do demand root-level access to the web server's configuration files. Commonly, there are a few private virtual web server accounts placed on the same physical machine. Nevertheless, each of them is independent from the other ones and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated machine set up and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures a colossal amount of resources. It also gives full root privileges, which renders it the optimal solution for any type of online portal that requires a web hosting service.

The sole question that remains is:

Which website hosting supplier should I pick?

As mentioned, there aren't many web hosting providers providing warez web hosting solutions because of judicial complications. Such hosts are being closed down almost every month. Because of that, if you want to launch such a service, you should do it on your very own computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most popular kind of hosting service. That is why, each and every website hosting vendor provides it. Not all of them, though, offer services such as VPS web servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated hosting servers. Most of the small scale website hosting distributors do not have the means required for offering those services. You can quickly identify such companies by the sorts of services that they are making available and by the way that they introduce them to the clientele. For example, some providers permit you to commence with a smaller web hosting package and afterwards move to a more powerful one, if you deem it mandatory to do so. This is quite suitable, since you do not have to move web pages between servers and there is no risk of experiencing downtime because of all the complications that may crop up.
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