What Exactly is Hosting?

As its name denotes, hosting is a service, which entails hosting online content. There are different varieties and types of hosting, depending on the goals and on the usage. However, they all entail hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available throughout the Internet. A host is in fact a web hosting service that is linked to the Internet and has its own personal IP address, which enables users to gain access to it through the Internet. The web hosting server's architecture and its limitations are determined by the kind of web hosting service it will be utilized for.

What are the different forms of web hosting?

Depending on the application, the hosting service may be:

File Web Hosting - this type of hosting enables the customers to accommodate their files on a certain web server. With the regular file storage hosting service, the files that are kept may only be accessed by the person that's availing of the service. This web hosting solution mainly appertains to backups of personal computers , docs, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also include given limitations with regard to the server storage and the root access. There may also be web traffic quota limitations, but that is dependent on the given provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting solution is very similar to the previous web hosting service form. Still, in contrast with the file web hosting service, the warez hosting solution is used for circulating patented content without the sanction of the licence owner. To put it briefly - it appertains to the prohibited circulation of files and documents. There are many ways for this to be completed, but the 2 principal approaches are - through simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and via P2P connections. The first approach entails either a certain site, or, most often, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download proprietary documents free of cost. The second method entails a P2P connection, using the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people transfer files between each other. There are a few web hosting firms that allow that form of web hosting on their web hosting servers, mainly due to all the legal complications that it involves. Usually such web sites are hosted on private dedicated web hosting servers that are registered by third-party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Email Hosting - this service is utilized with both shared website hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, depending on the customer's desire. If you wish to establish your own private SMTP mail server, then you will need either a private virtual web server or a dedicated web server that offers the level of access needed to carry out such an assignment. For standard email web hosting ends, however, you can create an average shared web hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a service that's widely famous, since the website hosting and the electronic mail hosting services are being served by 2 different servers, often owned by separate web hosts.

Hosting - the most widely spread and largely utilized hosting service at present. It's utilized for hosting site files, whose sort is dependent on the Operating System the web server is availing of - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files need concrete web hosting server OSs, or else they won't be exhibited accurately on the Web. This form of web hosting may involve web space and bandwidth quota limits, root access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the goals and on the functions, the user should choose the type of server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the website hosting corporation that's going to supply it. There are different sorts of servers, depending on the specs and the hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Website Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server offers a smaller amount of resources, which, of course, reflects on the price of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small scale and middle scale sites, which do not require large quantities of disk space and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they perform on the same principle as the shared web servers. In spite of that, there are much fewer customers accommodated on the same web server. That is why, each of them will receive a bigger share of the server's resources like RAM, data space, web traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting heavy web portals that do not require full server root privileges.

VPS are perfect for medium web pages, which do need root access to the server's configuration files. Normally, there are a bunch of virtual private hosting server accounts accommodated on the same server. However, each of them is independent from the other ones and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a fully dedicated web server set up and accessed by you and only you. It ensures a colossal quantity of system resources. It also offers root access, which renders it an ideal solution for any type of web portal that demands a website hosting solution.

The sole question that remains is:

Which web hosting corporation should I choose?

As already stated, there are very few companies offering warez hosting solutions due to legal complications. Such hosts are being closed down practically every month. Therefore, if you would like to create such a service, you should do it on your own computer. The shared website hosting service is the most popular kind of hosting service. That is why, each and every hosting firm provides it. Not all of them, however, offer services such as virtual private web servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated servers. Most of the small scale website hosting providers do not have the means required for maintaining those services. You can quickly ID such web hosts by the types of solutions that they are offering and by the way that they introduce them to the clients. For instance, some providers allow you to begin with a low-end website hosting account and then move to a bigger one, if you find it obligatory to do so. This is extremely suitable, because you do not have to transmit web pages between servers and there is no chance of facing service disturbances because of all the predicaments that may arise.

We, at DomainsVM offer all sorts of services and have the needed web hosting server resources and personnel to ensure that their clients will not run into any troubles when swapping services, which is what a top hosting vendor is in fact all about.