Web Hosting | Part 2
Management Of The Web Hosting Server
Management of the service typically occurs through a control panel where they can be created emails, change passwords and all necessary administrative tasks. There are several types of control panels, the most common cPanel, Plesk and HELM. Some hosting providers, however, have a control panel itself.
Types of Web Hosting
Web hosting can be divided into six general types: free, shared, reseller, virtual server (VPS), dedicated and co-location.
Free Hosting: most free hosting services are extremely limited compared to paid hosting. Generally, these services include banners and other advertising sites. In addition, most offer only sites by sending a web interface, which is not as efficient when sending via FTP. Also, generally, the disk space and data traffic is limited. Anyway, many people begin by hosting your site for free.
Shared Hosting: tens to hundreds of websites are hosted on the same server which ensures the most cost-effective. Today the systems are stable enough to allow a quality service under these conditions. The uptime (service time in the air) should be about 99.5% of the time, because the administration of multiple sites in one server requires constant maintenance more than one site per server.
Reseller Hosting: In reseller hosting service offered for those who want to offer hosting. Disk space and traffic in these plans is more than Shared Hosting and you can put multiple sites.
Virtual Server (VPS) is a technology that makes it a server capable of running several different platforms, making it better able to handle the hosting of your site. It is suitable for applications that require full access to the operating system but that do not require much processing power.
Dedicated Server: the service is more expensive, but more than Shared Hosting and Virtual Server, because you can better control the server. Besides hiring a server, it is also necessary to know that you need to manage it, which requires a qualified professional, especially to manage server security against hackers. The hardware is provided by the data center.
Co-location Web Hosting service: this service is similar to dedicated server, but the hardware is not provided by the data center but by the contracting companies or individuals.
Types of web hosting
Free Hosting
Free web hosting is extremely limited when compared with the hosting fee. These services usually add advertising on sites and have limited space and traffic.
Shared Hosting
In this type of service customers are hosted multiple sites on one server, by configuring the web server program. It is a very good alternative for small and medium customers, is an economic service due to cost reduction and by sharing a server with hundreds of thousands or millions of people or users the cost is dramatically reduced for everyone, and has good performance.
The disadvantages of this type of web hosting should be mentioned in particular the fact that sharing hardware resources of a server from hundreds or thousands of users significantly decreases the performance of it. It is also very common that a user failure caused by impact on the other so that the server administrator must take extreme caution when assigning execute permissions and write to users. In summary, the disadvantages are: reduction of server resources, speed, performance, security and stability.
Image Hosting
This type of hosting is available to store images online, most of these services are free and pages worth of advertising placed on your page to upload the image.
Reseller — Hosting Reseller Or hosting dealer
This hosting service is designed for large users or people who sell the hosting service to others. These packages have a lot of space and domains available for each account.
Virtual Servers (VPS, Virtual Private Server) by using a virtual machine
The company offers the control of a computer apparently not shared. So you can manage multiple domains easily and economically, and choose the programs that run on the server. Therefore, the type of product is suitable for companies design and web programming.
Dedicated Servers (Dedicated web hosting)
The term dedicated server refers to an advanced form of web hosting in which customers rent or buy a complete computer, and therefore has complete control and responsibility to administer it. Physical care of the equipment and Internet connectivity is the task of hosting company, which usually have it in a data center.
A dedicated server is the counterpart of shared web hosting, since in this type of hosting used all the resources of a server for a single user or customer, a dedicated server can hold thousands of users or sites, however when you want maximum performance and availability of resources for undertaking a system or a dedicated server option is the most optimal, since it can ensure a more objective way the performance, speed, stability, system or information page has published by this server.
The main disadvantage of choosing a dedicated server is the cost of the service, whether you have a local server in the company or hire one in a datacenter, the cost will always go above shared Web hosting, we must also take note that it requires an administrator with extensive knowledge in the topic of management of servers as the main settings, affect the proper functioning, so there is an evident need for a good technician in charge or a company responsible professional.
Colocation Web Hosting
This service basically involves selling or renting a physical space in a data center for the customer to place around your own computer. The company gives you the power and connection to the Internet but the web server is selected by the user completely (i.e., the hardware).
Web hosting in the cloud (or cloud hosting)
Web hosting in the cloud (Cloud Hosting) is based on innovative technologies that allow a large number of machines to act as a system connected to a storage media group, has considerable advantages over the traditional web hosting solutions such as the use of resources. The security of a site hosted in the cloud (cloud) is guaranteed by numerous servers instead of just one. Cloud technology also eliminates any physical limitations to growth in real time and makes the solution extremely flexible.
Study: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons.
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