What Exactly is Hosting?

As its name signifies, hosting is a service, which involves hosting web content. There are different forms and types of web hosting, depending on the purpose and on the objectives. Nonetheless, they all refer to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Web. A host is actually a web hosting service that is linked to the Web and has its very own Internet Protocol address, which permits users to gain access to it through the Internet. The server's architecture and its system resources are dependent on the type of web hosting service it's going to be utilized for.

What are the different forms of hosting?

Depending on the purpose, the professional web hosting service may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of web hosting permits the clients to store their files on a particular web server. With the regular file storage web hosting solution, the files that are kept may only be accessed by the client that's using the service. This web hosting service mainly pertains to backups of computers , docs, personal files and even other web servers. This solution may also impose given restrictions with regard to the data storage and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth limitations, but that is dependent on the particular web hosting provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting solution is resembling the previous hosting service type. Nevertheless, in contrast with the file hosting solution, the warez web hosting service is utilized for transmitting patented materials without the approval of the patent keeper. To cut a long story short - it refers to the unlawful distribution of files and materials. There are multiple ways for this to be brought about, but the two essential approaches are - via plain HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first one entails either a given website, or, most typically, simply a directory on a web hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download proprietary docs for free. The second way entails a P2P connection, availing of the so-called Torrent web servers, via which people transmit files between each other. There are a few web hosting firms that permit such type of hosting on their servers, mainly owing to all the legal predicaments that it involves. Commonly such web pages are hosted on personal dedicated web hosting servers that are registered by third-party enterprises either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Hosting - this service is applicable with both shared website hosting and dedicated web servers, depending on the user's desire. If you would like to create your very own private SMTP mail server, then you will require either a VPS web hosting server or a dedicated hosting server that provides the level of access required to complete such an operation. For common electronic mail web hosting purposes, however, you can utilize a normal shared website hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a solution that's very popular, because the web hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by 2 different web servers, often belonging to separate web hosting providers.

Hosting - the most popular and broadly used hosting service these days. It's utilized for hosting web site files, whose kind is determined by the Operating System the server is using - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files necessitate different web server Operating Systems, or else they won't be shown appropriately on the Web. This kind of hosting may impose disk space and web traffic quota limits, server root access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the purpose and on the objectives, the customer should pick the kind of web hosting server that he demands for his work, and, of course, the hosting firm that's going to provide it. There are several types of web servers, based on the specs and the web hosting services that they offer. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server offers a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, is reflected on the price of the service. It can be used for hosting small and medium web pages, which do not need enormous amounts of web space and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they function on the very same principle as the shared website hosting servers. Even so, there are much less users accommodated on the same web server. Because of that, each of them will obtain a bigger share of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, data space, traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting bulky web sites that do not need root-level access.

VPS are ideal for medium scale web pages, which do require root access to the web hosting server's config files. Normally, there are a number of private virtual web server hosting accounts sharing the same physical server. However, each of them is independent from the others and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a fully dedicated web server set up and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees an enormous quantity of resources. It also offers complete server root access, which renders it an excellent solution for any kind of web portal that needs a web hosting service.

The only question that's left is:

Which website hosting supplier should I settle on?

As stated above, there are very few hosting providers providing warez hosting services because of judicial troubles. Such hosting providers are being closed down almost every month. Because of that, if you want to create such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared web hosting solution is the most famous type of hosting service. So, every web hosting corporation provides it. Not all of them, however, provide services such as virtual private hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated web servers. Most of the small scale website hosting suppliers do not have the resources required for maintaining those solutions. You can easily recognize such hosting companies by the types of solutions that they are providing and by the manner in which they introduce them to the clients. For instance, some hosts permit you to commence with a small sized website hosting account and subsequently shift to a more advanced one, if you deem it obligatory to do so. This is extremely suitable, since you do not have to transfer web portals between web hosting servers and there is no risk of facing downtime due to all the complications that may appear.

We, at One 4 All Network offer all sorts of services and have the required hosting server resources and personnel to guarantee that their clients will not stumble upon any complications when changing services, which is what a top hosting vendor is actually all about.