Shared Hosting Packages Clarified

As its name denotes, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting web content. There are different forms and kinds of web hosting, depending on the purpose and on the objectives. In spite of that, they all are related to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available throughout the Internet. A web host is in fact a web server that is connected to the Internet and has its own personal Internet Protocol address, which allows people to access it through the Web. The hosting server's configuration and its limitations are dependent on the sort of hosting solution it will be used for.

What are the various forms of hosting?

Depending on the function, the business hosting service may be:

File Web Hosting - this form of web hosting allows the users to save their files on a specific hosting server. With the normal file storage hosting service, the files that are kept may only be accessed by the client that's utilizing the service. This hosting solution traditionally entails backups of computers , docs, private files and even other servers. This solution may also have given limitations when it comes to the data storage space and the root privileges. There may also be bandwidth quota limits, but that depends on the given host.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is comparable with the previous web hosting service type. Yet, unlike the file storage hosting service, the warez web hosting solution is used for distributing patented materials without the authorization of the copyright bearer. To cut a long story short - it is associated with the criminal circulation of files and docs. There are multiple methods for this to be brought about, but the two chief approaches are - via plain HTTP downloading and via peer-to-peer connections. The first method involves either a certain website, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download patented content free of charge. The second way involves a peer-to-peer connection, making use of the so-called Torrent web servers, via which users exchange files between each other. There are very few hosting providers that permit that type of hosting on their web servers, chiefly due to all the judicial troubles that it entails. Commonly such web portals are hosted on private dedicated hosting servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Hosting - this service is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated web servers, depending on the client's intention. If you wish to establish your own private SMTP server, then you will need either a VPS web hosting server or a dedicated server that offers the level of access required to complete such a procedure. For conventional e-mail web hosting purposes, however, you can utilize a standard shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's very popular, because the website hosting and the mail hosting services are being served by two different servers, often owned by separate hosts.

Shared Hosting - the most popular and immensely used hosting service at the moment. It's used for hosting web site files, whose sort depends on the Operating System the web hosting server is running - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files necessitate specific server Operating Systems, or else they won't be exhibited correctly on the Web. This kind of web hosting may involve disk storage space and bandwidth limits, root-level access and CPU usage limitations.

Based on the goals and on the objectives, the customer should select the sort of web hosting server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the web hosting distributor that's going to provide it. There are various types of hosting servers, based on the configuration and the website hosting services that they provide. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server provides a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, is reflected on the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small and middle sized sites, which do not demand immense quotas of server storage and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they work on the same principle as the shared web hosting servers. Yet, there are much less clients hosted on the same hosting server. Therefore, each of them will receive a greater share of the server's resources like RAM, disk storage, bandwidth and CPU. Excellent for hosting enormous websites that do not need complete root-level access.

Virtual private servers are excellent for middle scale online portals, which do need root-level access to the web hosting server's configuration files. Usually, there are several virtual private web server hosting accounts sharing the same machine. Still, each of them is independent from the other ones and has its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated hosting server configured and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a tremendous quantity of resources. It also gives full server root privileges, which makes it an excellent platform for any kind of web portal that needs a hosting solution.

The sole question that's left is:

Which website hosting vendor should I pick?

As stated above, there aren't many web hosting companies offering warez hosting services because of legal problems. Such web hosting providers are being shut down virtually every month. For that reason, if you want to start such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared web hosting solution is the most widespread type of web hosting service. Because of that, each website hosting supplier offers it. Not all of them, however, provide services such as VPSs, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated servers. Most of the small sized web hosting vendors do not have the resources needed for maintaining those services. You can effortlessly identify such web hosting companies by the sorts of solutions that they are offering and by the manner in which they present them to the clientele. For example, some hosting providers allow you to kick off with a small sized hosting package and afterwards upgrade to a more powerful one, if you find it necessary to do so. This is quite convenient, since you do not have to relocate websites between servers and there is no risk of facing service downtime because of all the complications that may arise.

We, at STEERWEB offer all kinds of solutions and have the adequate web hosting server resources and staff to guarantee that their clients will not run into any complications when changing services, which is what a top hosting supplier is in fact all about.