Web Hosting Services Clarified

As its name signifies, web hosting is a solution, which involves hosting online content. There are different forms and types of web hosting, depending on the aims and on the functions. Still, they all are associated with hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Web. A host is in fact a hosting server that is connected to the Internet and has its own personal IP address, which allows people to gain access to it via the Web. The server's architecture and its system resources are determined by the kind of hosting service it's going to be utilized for.

What are the different forms of web hosting?

Based on the usage, the hosting service may be:

File Web Hosting - this form of web hosting permits the customers to deposit their files on a certain hosting server. With the standard file web hosting solution, the files that are accommodated may only be accessed by the user that's using the service. This hosting service generally is related to backups of computers , documents, personal files and even other servers. This service may also have given limits in terms of the disk storage space and the root access. There may also be web traffic limits, but that depends on the actual provider.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is resembling the previous web hosting service type. Still, unlike the file hosting solution, the warez web hosting solution is used for disseminating proprietary content without the authorization of the license possessor. To put it briefly - it is related to the prohibited transmission of files and docs. There are numerous ways for this to be attained, but the 2 principal methods are - through plain HTTP downloading and via P2P connections. The first approach entails either a certain web portal, or, most often, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download licensed content free of charge. The second method involves a peer-to-peer connection, using the so-called Torrent servers, via which people transmit files between each other. There are very few web hosting corporations that permit such form of web hosting on their web hosting servers, chiefly owing to all the judicial problems that it involves. Typically such sites are hosted on personal dedicated servers that are registered by third-party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Hosting - this solution is utilized with both shared web hosting and dedicated hosting servers, depending on the customer's desire. If you want to set up your very own personal SMTP e-mail server, then you will require either a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated web server that provides the access level needed to complete such an assignment. For customary electronic mail hosting purposes, though, you can open a standard shared website hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a service that's widely used, because the website hosting and the email hosting services are being served by two separate servers, often owned by separate companies.

Web Hosting - the most popular and immensely utilized hosting service these days. It's utilized for hosting web site files, whose type is dependent on the Operating System the hosting server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files demand concrete hosting server OSs, or else they won't be shown appropriately on the World Wide Web. This type of web hosting may impose server storage space and traffic limits, root-level access and central processing unit usage limits.

Depending on the mission and on the functions, the user should pick the sort of web hosting server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the website hosting company that's going to supply it. There are different sorts of web hosting servers, depending on the specifications and the website hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared hosting server provides a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, reflects on the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small size and middle size online portals, which do not require huge quotas of server storage and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they work on the very same principle as the shared web hosting servers. Even so, there are much fewer clients sharing the same server. Therefore, each of them will receive a bigger share of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, disk space, traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting immense sites that do not need complete root-level access.

VPS hosting are perfect for medium scale web sites, which do need root access to the hosting server's config files. Traditionally, there are several virtual private web server hosting accounts accommodated on the same machine. Even so, each of them is insulated from the rest and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Hosting - a fully dedicated web server configured and accessed by you and only you. It ensures a vast amount of resources. It also gives complete root-level access, which renders it an excellent solution for any type of online portal that demands a web hosting solution.

The sole question that remains is:

Which hosting supplier should I opt for?

As stated above, there are just a few web hosting providers providing warez hosting solutions due to legal entanglements. Such web hosting companies are being shut down practically every month. For that reason, if you want to offer such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most widely spread kind of hosting service. That is why, every hosting firm provides it. Not all of them, though, provide solutions such as virtual private web hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated hosting servers. Most of the small scale website hosting corporations do not have the resources required for offering those services. You can quickly recognize such web hosting companies by the types of services that they are making available and by the way that they introduce them to the clients. For example, certain hosts permit you to commence with a low-end website hosting package and afterwards shift to a bigger one, if you deem it compulsory to do so. This is extremely convenient, because you do not need to relocate web portals between hosting servers and there is no possibility of facing downtime because of all the complications that may show up.

We, at Zap Domains provide all sorts of solutions and have the required server resources and staff to ensure that their clients will not run into any hassles when changing services, which is what a top hosting firm is in fact all about.