Web Hosting Description

As its name implies, web hosting is a service, which entails hosting online content. There are various varieties and kinds of web hosting, depending on the goals and on the usage. Yet, they all entail hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Web. A web host is actually a web server that is connected to the World Wide Web and has its own IP address, which allows people to access it through the World Wide Web. The web server's architecture and its resources depend on the type of web hosting service it will be used for.

What are the different forms of hosting?

Depending on the application, the web hosting solution may be:

File Web Hosting - this form of hosting permits the customers to lodge their files on a certain web server. With the normal file hosting service, the files that are stashed may only be accessed by the client that's utilizing the service. This hosting solution mainly concerns backups of personal computers , documents, private files and even other hosting servers. This solution may also impose given limitations with regard to the disk space and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth restrictions, but that is dependent on the particular provider.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is very similar to the previous hosting service type. Even so, in contrast with the file hosting service, the warez hosting solution is used for disseminating licensed work without the blessing of the patent proprietor. To put it briefly - it involves the prohibited distribution of files and documents. There are numerous methods for this to be carried out, but the 2 chief methods are - via plain Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first way involves either a specific site, or, most typically, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download licensed content free of charge. The second method involves a P2P connection, making use of the so-called Torrent servers, via which users transfer files between each other. There are very few web hosting providers that permit such form of web hosting on their web servers, mainly owing to all the legal entanglements that it entails. Usually such sites are hosted on personal dedicated servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Web Hosting - this solution is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the user's desire. If you would like to establish your very own personal SMTP mail server, then you will require either a VPS web server or a dedicated web server that provides the level of access required to accomplish such a procedure. For conventional electronic mail hosting ends, however, you can set up an average shared hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain. This is not a solution that's very used, because the web hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by 2 separate web servers, usually owned by separate hosts.

Web Hosting - the most widespread and frequently used hosting service as of today. It's utilized for hosting website files, whose kind depends on the OS the web server is utilizing - Linux or Windows. Different types of files request different web server OSs, or else they won't be displayed properly on the World Wide Web. This kind of hosting may include disk space and traffic limits, root-level access and central processing unit usage limits.

Depending on the goals and on the objectives, the user should pick the sort of hosting server that he demands for his work, and, of course, the hosting company that's going to provide it. There are several kinds of servers, depending on the configuration and the website hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared website hosting server includes a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, is reflected on the price of the service. It can be used for hosting small sized and medium web sites, which do not need immense quantities of server storage and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting - they operate on the very same principle as the shared website hosting servers. Yet, there are much fewer clients accommodated on the same web hosting server. Hence, each of them will enjoy a bigger quota of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, server storage space, bandwidth and CPU. Excellent for hosting huge sites that do not require root-level access.

VPS web hosting are perfect for middle sized web portals, which do demand root-level access to the hosting server's config files. Normally, there are a number of Virtual Private Server accounts located on the same server. Yet, each of them is insulated from the other ones and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Web Hosting - a completely dedicated machine configured and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures an immense amount of resources. It also gives complete server root access, which makes it the optimal platform for any type of site that demands a web hosting service.

The sole question that remains is:

Which website hosting provider should I select?

As stated above, there are not many web hosts providing warez web hosting services due to judicial complications. Such web hosts are being shut down practically every month. Because of that, if you desire to set up such a service, you should do it on your own computer. The shared web hosting service is the most famous kind of web hosting service. That is why, each website hosting company provides it. Not all of them, however, offer services such as VPSs, Semi-dedicated Web Hosting and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the smaller web hosting companies do not have the means required for offering those services. You can quickly ID such hosts by the sorts of services that they are supplying and by the manner in which they present them to the clientele. For instance, certain companies allow you to begin with a small scale website hosting plan and subsequently upgrade to a more powerful one, if you consider it mandatory to do so. This is quite convenient, because you do not need to move websites between web servers and there is no danger of experiencing service disturbances because of all the problems that may arise.

We, at ACHEMA HOST provide all types of solutions and have the necessary server resources and personnel to ensure that their clients will not face any predicaments when swapping services, which is what a top hosting vendor is actually all about.