Web Hosting

What is Web Hosting?

Providing space on Internet servers for the storage of World Wide Web sites which can be accessed by others through the network. This service is usually offered by ISPs or web hosting specialists. Simply, Data storage space accessed via the Internet, usually used to host web sites and data files.

Types of Hosting:

Virtual Private Server               
Dedicated Hosting
Collocation Centre
Web Hosting
Free Hosting
Shared Hosting
Clustered Hosting
Reseller Hosting
Application-Specific
Blog Hosting
Guild Hosting
Image Hosting
Video Hosting
Wiki Farms
File Hosting
Remote Backup Service
Game Server Hosting
DNS Hosting
E-mail Hosting

Web hosting service providers:

A many web service providers are launching their service from US and UK countries. they are maintaining their servers in perfect fully supported place i.e., Data Centers.

A  Service provider offer many services depends upon their servers and spaces.

Most of the service providers support windows and Linux Hosting services. The three things are most important for efficient web services.

1. Full facilitated Data Center (High end Configurations)

2. Good Server client managing Software, Like Control Panel Software's

3. Good Marketing Plans

What is Data Center?

A Data Center is Collection of Servers, which is connected with Internet and shared its storage spaces worldwide. The Following things are most important for Perfect Esteemed Data Centers.

1. Uninterrupted power supply forever
2. High Speed Internet connections.
3. High Configured Servers. With Anti Virus Anti Spam and Firewall Productions.
4. Good Networking with high quality cables, jacks, routers, switches, and etc,
5. 24 hrs onscreen watching and maintaining server using Software's
6. Fully Air-conditioned Facility
7. Good Flooring and Interior with Dust Proof.
8. Active Clint's Support centre

Control Panel Software's:

This type of software is help to easily maintains Server activities, Clients spaces allocations and maintenance. The client based control panel software is using to maintain certain spaces and specifications allotted by server. Some example Control panel Applications are, Plesk Control Panel, Cpanel and etc.,

What is FTP Software?

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Software's are widely using for files managements process between clients to servers. This software's identify clients using their FTP account name and Password. It is automatically connect to servers and help to uploading and downloading process easily. We can mange easily our websites and web applications files using this software. Example FTP software's are,

Smart FTP, Cute FTP, WSFTP, Filezilla, and etc.,

How to Find Good Web hosting Provider?

If you want quality web hosting services, you must spend some more money. "Unlimited Space, and Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Email" this type of advertisements are not support quality web hosting. First you plan clearly, how much space you want and what size of bandwidth, email, and other things. After search suitable service provider and analyze their service and capacity of in this field. Some good Service providers can arrange special services for client's requirements. If you need big spaces like more then 20 GB for multiple domains hosting, you better to buy Virtual Private Server or Dedicated Server. The following points is help to find good service provider,

 Number of Years Experience

1. Current Clients
2. Server Information's
3. Data center Information's
4. Client Response 
5. Currently hosted sites results
6. Anti virus, Anti Spam, Firewall, Hackers Proof
7. Service uptimes 24x7 monitoring 

 Virtual Private Server :

 Virtual Private Servers (VPS) is simulation of hardware by web hosting providers. 

Each virtual server is isolated from the others (or "Private"), and access to hardware resources (RAM, CPU, Disk Space, Network throughput) is managed by the "host" server.

 You can manage entire space and specifications of VPS as your like.

  Dedicated Server:

 A Dedicated server or Managed hosting service  is separate server in data center for your hosting purposes. The Data center launch separate server with your requires Configurations. The dedicated server is fully managed by its buyer. You can make many web host package and sell it your clients.

  What is Domain Name?

 A name that identifies one or more IP Address. For example, the domain name microsoft.com represents about a dozen IP addresses. Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Web pages. For example, in the URL http://www.adinin.com/index.html, the domain name is adinin.com.

 Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which Top Level Domain (TLD) it belongs to. There are only a limited number of such domains. For example:

 gov - Government agencies

edu - Educational institutions

org - Organizations (nonprofit)

mil - Military

com - commercial business

net - Network organizations

Because the Internet is based on IP addresses, not domain names, every Web servers require a Domain Name System (DNS) server to translate domain names into IP addresses.