How Web Hosting Services Functions

As its name implies, web hosting is a service, which entails hosting web content. There are different forms and kinds of hosting, based on the aims and on the functions. In spite of that, they all refer to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available throughout the World Wide Web. A web host is in fact a web hosting service that is connected to the Web and has its very own Internet Protocol address, which enables users to have access to it via the World Wide Web. The web hosting server's architecture and its system resources are subject to the type of hosting solution it's going to be used for.

What are the various types of web hosting?

Based on the usage, the hosting service may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of web hosting allows the clients to save their files on a certain web server. With the classic file hosting solution, the files that are saved may only be accessed by the person that's using the service. This web hosting solution normally pertains to backups of computers , documents, personal files and even other hosting servers. This service may also include given limits with regard to the data storage space and the root access. There may also be bandwidth restrictions, but that depends on the particular web hosting service provider.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting solution is quite similar to the previous hosting service type. Yet, unlike the file hosting solution, the warez web hosting solution is utilized for propagating patented content without the sanction of the patent possessor. To cut a long story short - it is associated with the illegal dissemination of files and documents. There are multiple methods for this to be realized, but the 2 chief ways are - through simple HTTP downloading and through P2P connections. The first way entails either some web portal, or, most typically, simply a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thus download licensed materials free of cost. The second approach involves a P2P connection, utilizing the so-called Torrent servers, through which people share files between each other. There are a few website hosting companies that permit such form of hosting on their web servers, chiefly owing to all the legal problems that it involves. Usually 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 service is relevant with both shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, depending on the customer's intention. If you wish to build your very own personal SMTP email server, then you will require either a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated hosting server that offers the level of access required to carry out such a procedure. For traditional email web hosting purposes, however, you can set up an ordinary shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a service that's very popular, because the web hosting and the mail hosting services are being served by two different web servers, usually belonging to different companies.

Web Hosting - the most popular and commonly used hosting service as of now. It's utilized for hosting website files, whose sort depends on the OS the server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different types of files demand different web hosting server Operating Systems, or else they won't be displayed appropriately on the Web. This sort of hosting may have storage space and traffic quota limits, root-level access and central processing unit usage limits.

Based on the aims and on the usage, the client should select the kind of server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the web hosting firm that's going to furnish it. There are various sorts of web hosting servers, based on the specs and the website hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Website Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server offers a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, is reflected on the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small scale and middle size web portals, which do not need big amounts of data space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they operate on the very same principle as the shared web hosting servers. However, there are much fewer users hosted on the same server. Therefore, each of them will get a larger share of the server's resources like RAM, data storage, traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting heavy web sites that do not demand full server root privileges.

VPS hosting are excellent for medium scale web pages, which do need root-level access to the hosting server's configuration files. Typically, there are a few virtual server web hosting accounts located on the same physical server. Nonetheless, each of them is independent from the others and has its own OS.

Dedicated Hosting - a fully dedicated physical machine set up and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures a big quantity of resources. It also gives complete server root access, which makes it the optimal platform for any sort of website that necessitates a website hosting service.

The only question that remains is:

Which website hosting supplier should I select?

As mentioned, there are very few hosts offering warez hosting solutions due to judicial complications. Such hosting providers are being closed down practically every month. For that reason, if you would like to start such a service, you should do it on your very own PC. The shared hosting service is the most widely spread type of web hosting service. For that reason, each and every website hosting firm provides it. Not all of them, though, offer solutions such as VPS servers, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the small sized web hosting companies do not have the resources required for maintaining those services. You can easily identify such web hosts by the types of services that they are making available and by the way that they present them to the customers. For example, certain hosting companies allow you to commence with a small sized website hosting plan and subsequently move to a more advanced one, if you find it compulsory to do so. This is very suitable, since you do not have to move websites between web hosting servers and there is no possibility of facing service disturbances because of all the predicaments that may appear.

We, at Brandplus provide all sorts of solutions and have the adequate hosting server resources and personnel to guarantee that their clients will not stumble upon any complications when swapping services, which is what a top hosting provider is in fact all about.