Web Hosting

What Is Web Hosting?

Web hosting is a service provided by big companies to host the web site, the hosted site is accessible one the internet. They provide online systems for storing information, images, video or any content to the users. The content is then become accessible on the internet. The companies providing the space on the internet is called Web Hosts. Web Hosts usually installs many computers in the data centers powered by UPS backups. These computers are connected to the high speed internet by fiber optics connectivity.

Different Level of Web Hosting
There are three level of hosting 

• Shared Hosting (Virtual Hosting)
  Servers are expensive so hosting service provider shares the sever space to host many sites on the same machine. So the one server servers many web sites. Usually on one server 1,000 web sites can be hosted. This makes web hosting affordable because you pay a portion of the server fee instead of the entire server. Over 95% of websites of the internet are hosted on shared hosting environment.
  
  Shared hosting is an economical, flexible Web solution for both individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses looking to establish an online presence through static, personal and "test" Web sites.
   
• Dedicated Server
  If you planning to host big application on the internet in that case you need a full server for running the application. In this case you are using the Dedicated Sever.
    
• Server Co-Location
  In some cases you can buy your own sever and setup the applications according to your requirement and place the your server on some ISP with high speed internet connection. This is called Co-Location hosting.
  

Features you should consider while choosing the Web Hosting Companies: 

·         Select the Hosting plan having SSL support. 

·         Your plan should have the support for shell (telnet or SSH) access to your account and the FTP access. 

·         You should have access to raw logs and stats for figuring, this will help in understanding the statistics of your visitors 

·         Your plan should have the support for streaming media support 

·         Select the hosting plan having static IP

·         You plan should allow you to create sub-domains

·         Control panel should be there for managing the account

·         You should select the plan with anonymous FTP support

 By Prof. Manjeet Kumar.

Author  can be contacted at manjeet@niilm.com