What is Web Hosting?

Web hosting is a kind of Internet service that allows individuals and companies to render their online portals visible on the Internet. Hosting providers are companies that offer content storage space on a hosting server held in a datacenter and guarantee continuous service uptime.

Where do you begin?

The Internet has become a vital factor in everyone's everyday agenda. It gives you the opportunity to gain some cash on the side, but can also be a chief source of income. In order to put adverts on your site or to publicize goods that you offer, you invariably need a hosting solution, which will guarantee that your website is secure and always up and running. But how do you discover one that is cheap and yet trustworthy enough?

The shared hosting platform

The solution hosting suppliers have come up with is named shared hosting. With the shared web hosting solution, multiple hosting clients are accommodated on one and the same web hosting server. There are stringent limitations on the resources that each user account can actually utilize, thus making certain that they do not intervene with each other. The shared hosting solution offers acceptable performance and costs less than, let's say, a dedicated server, which is used by just one customer. The shared web hosting solution enables web hosting firms to offer their clients reasonable prices. It normally comes with easy-to-use hosting Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at Hosting Europe provide, and lets everybody administer their web sites without worrying about server installation and maintenance tasks, which are entirely handled by the hosting supplier.

VPS hosting

With the VPS hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical server with other VPS hosting server users, but you are allocated a dedicated share of the resources. The private virtual server solution is the middle ground between the much more affordably priced shared hosting solution and the more high-priced dedicated web hosting server solution, and is a very suitable option for anyone who desires to make, for example, an audio or video streaming site or a community site. The circumstance that you need to take care of the server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a weakness, but this could also be an enormous upside if you really need to implement certain server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared web hosting server.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Dedicated hosting servers are in the majority of cases much more high-priced than shared web hosting or virtual private web server hosting solutions. You might wonder why would anyone want to use a dedicated web server then? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a big web portal, or just has very explicit server architecture and safety requirements, the smartest option would be a dedicated hosting server that you or your server administrators can manage directly. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the higher price is of no concern. You are bestowed with complete root access and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your web sites.