Definition of Web Hosting

Web hosting is a service that web hosting providers offer so that you can publish your site online.

How can people spot your site?

When you build a website and you want other individuals to check it out, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a server. If you attempt to render the website reachable on the Internet by web hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it constantly online, which is why website hosting services appeared.

How does web hosting work?

Hosting distributors offer you disk storage space for your site on their high-powered computers (web servers) and guarantee continuous Internet connection. When somebody types your domain name (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the hosting server where they can have a glance at the content of your site.

Hosting types

With the progress of web technologies, several types of web hosting services have emerged to meet the different requirements of web site possessors, including shared web hosting services, VPS web server hosting services and dedicated hosting services.

Shared website hosting

Shared website hosting is the most widely used type of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where one hosting server is shared among lots of web hosting clients who are restricted by the CPU, traffic and web server hard disk storage space quotas that they have been apportioned. This type of web hosting is usually cheaper - you don't have to pay for the entire hosting server in advance, as it is divided among plenty of hosting clients, and the hosting vendor can afford to offer much more reasonable prices. It is also much easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-configured with all the necessary software and the hosting solutions provider handles all server maintenance tasks and security updates on your behalf.

The disadvantage of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the server's system resources with other hosting account owners and if one web site becomes really popular it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the web sites on that web server, but most hosting providers, including us at Asesores en Web, have security systems at work that impede that from taking place.

A description of a website hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of web hosting, the majority of web hosting companies and hosting customers simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a big competition on the website hosting market, most web hosting vendors strive to provide modest prices and gifts with their web hosting services. We, for example, provide different web hosting plans and two invoicing options - monthly and annual, based on your finances. If you pick the annual invoicing cycle, you will obtain a present - one free domain name registration.

VPS web hosting

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS web hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your website outgrows the resources offered by your shared website hosting package, a virtual server web hosting package is an appropriate solution. virtual server web hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other virtual server hosting account owners, but the hard disk is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured almost like an actual dedicated web hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a VPS server are not shared. Also, the virtualization software offers you much more autonomy to configure your virtual private web server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical expertise.

Dedicated Web Hosting

With the Dedicated Web Hosting solution, the user obtains a whole physical machine and can utilize all its system resources. The dedicated hosting solution is the most powerful of all hosting solutions and offers many customization possibilities - the dedicated web server hosting customers can select the hardware and software specifications that will fulfill their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated web hosting plan is a perfect option for a resource-absorbing business site, for example - you will not share the physical server's system resources with anyone else and will have complete root access. You will have full authority over the hosting server, which will enable you to make any configuration modifications that you might require. The weakness of the dedicated server hosting solution is that a more advanced level of technical proficiency is needed - unless you engage an Information Technology specialist, it will be your duty to manage and configure the dedicated server. The dedicated server web hosting solution is also much more expensive, since the cost of the physical server isn't shared among any other users.

A website hosting tip for beginners

If you are just beginning to develop your site and need a web hosting solution to start with, the shared web hosting solution remains the most suitable choice. If your site outgrows your website hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not necessitate migration of your files, since only the parameters of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your hosting plan to a more advanced one at any given moment without worrying about the number of days remaining until the expiration date. Moreover, if you eventually reach the most powerful shared website hosting package and still need more resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it suggests that your website's popularity has increased!), there always is the possibility to move to a VPS web server or a dedicated server without the need to swap hosting service providers.