What is Web-hosting
In this post, we are going to understand “what is web hosting” and “Type of web hosting”
Web hosting is a service used to allow the organizations or individual websites or web pages or post(content) or apps for online use through the internet. Hosting-service is used as a type of business provided by hosting service providers. Hosting service providers keep web page storages(servers) in one or many locations and countries(called as the data centre) for business purposes of the websites saved on the server to view the web pages via the internet
websites or web pages are stored in a type of special computers or cloud storage called servers.
Web hosting providers
All over the world a lot of hosting companies providing server facilities to their customers(organization or individual customer) to store their websites called hosting providers.
Nowadays hosting companies provide a variety of server facilities(different configurations and different prices) which include email account, FTP Access, CMS support, (mostly WordPress), web site designing tool for attracting valuable customers.
For example, a lot of Web hosting providers are providing reliable hosting services such as blue host, GoDaddy, site ground, dream host etc….
The following are explanation about some hosting providers and their service.
GoDaddy– GoDaddy is the largest company providing services of web hosting and registering domain names. Godday has become the largest popular market world wide having approximately 17 million customers and maintaining 77 million domain names for the last 20 years. Godaddy provides simple affordable hosting packages with drag and drop builder.
blue host – It is one of the WordPress approved hosting company, mainly focused on web hosting and Domain registering service.
the blue host has approximately 2 million customers and maintains Domain names. Blue host provides a web designing tool for their customer with drag and drops website builder
Site ground – It is one of the WordPress approved hosting company mainly focused on web hosting and domain registering service.
Site Ground has powered approximately one million websites and maintains 200,000 domain names. Siteground provides some category of hosting packages such as Reliable web hosting, Managed WordPress hosting, Woocommerce hosting, cloud hosting
Dream Host– It is one of the WordPress approved hosting company mainly focused on web hosting and domain registering service.
dream host has powered approximately 1 million websites and maintains over 1 million domain names. Dream host provides easily usable control panel . It provides many hosting packages as shared hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated hosting, Cloud hosting.
Hostgator – It is the best web hosting company mainly targeting web hosting and domain name registering service. Host Gator is a powerful and affordable web hosting service . Host Gator provides many types of hosting services as Shared hosting(website builder), WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated hosting with an own website builder so that the users can get a better experience when using drag and drop website builder.
client – A client who want to use a part of space in server on leasing to publish their web contents – websites blog or any other web pages
Type of hosting services – There are many types of hosting services provided by hosting providers based on the needs of the customers. Hundred of web hosting companies providing thousands of type of hosting plans according to different configurations with different prizes
Some important hosting services are described below
Shared hosting -This is a type of web hosting service one website placed on the same server shared with many other web sites with basic configuration only performing essential configuration to clients.
Clients can use this hosting service with the cheapest and limited facilities that are adquate to normal websites. Many web hosting companies provides free website builder with shared hosting
VPS hosting – VPS hosting is a virtual private server providing higher performance than shared hosting. It increases the power of configuration(CPU, Ram capacity) more than the shared hosting(next step of shared hosting). VPS hosting has several types of (based in performance- CPU, RAM) hosting packages in different prices where you can select them according to the need of your websites.
Dedicated hosting – It is the most powerful server leased by a server of a website with allocation of high performance and full control power. Dedicated hosting is ideal for the use of high traffic largest websites providing high security, high speed also fulfilling the unique needs with enhanced website performance