Shared Hosting Uncovered

As its name implies, shared hosting is a solution, which entails hosting online content. There are various varieties and types of hosting, depending on the purpose and on the functions. In spite of that, they all involve hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available through the World Wide Web. A web host is in fact a server that is connected to the Internet and has its own IP address, which enables people to access it via the Web. The web server's architecture and its system resources are determined by the form of hosting service it will be utilized for.

What are the different forms of web hosting?

Depending on the purpose, the business website hosting solution may be:

File Hosting - this form of hosting permits the users to host their files on a given hosting server. With the average file hosting service, the files that are stashed may only be accessed by the user that's utilizing the service. This web hosting solution mainly applies to backups of personal computers , docs, private files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also have certain limits in terms of the data storage space and the root access. There may also be traffic quota limits, but that depends on the particular web hosting service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez hosting solution is quite similar to the previous hosting service type. Even so, unlike the file storage web hosting solution, the warez hosting service is utilized for disseminating patented materials without being given the OK to do so by the licence keeper. In short - it appertains to the illegitimate distribution of files and documents. There are many methods for this to be fulfilled, but the two essential approaches are - via simple HTTP downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first one involves either a particular site, or, most typically, just a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thus download copyrighted documents for free. The second method entails a peer-to-peer connection, availing of the so-called Torrent web servers, through which users transmit files between each other. There aren't many website hosting companies that permit that type of hosting on their hosting servers, mainly owing to all the legal entanglements that it presupposes. Commonly such websites are hosted on private dedicated web hosting servers that are registered by 3rd party companies either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Hosting - this solution is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated hosting servers, depending on the client's intention. If you would like to run your own personal SMTP server, then you will require either a virtual hosting server or a dedicated web server that provides the access level needed to perform such an operation. For customary electronic mail web hosting ends, however, you can create a standard shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a service that's very popular, because the web hosting and the email hosting services are being served by two separate servers, usually belonging to different providers.

Shared Hosting - the most widely spread and broadly used hosting service now. It's used for hosting site files, whose kind depends on the OS the web server is using - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files require specific web hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be shown accurately on the World Wide Web. This sort of hosting may include disk storage and web traffic restrictions, root-level access and CPU usage limitations.

Depending on the purpose and on the objectives, the customer should pick the type of web hosting server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the web hosting supplier that's going to furnish it. There are various types of web servers, based on the specs and the website hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared hosting server offers a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, is manifested in the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small and medium scale sites, which do not need large quantities of data space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they function on the same principle as the shared web hosting servers. However, there are much less users hosted on the same hosting server. Therefore, each of them will get a larger quota of the web server's resources like RAM, data storage space, traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting bulky web pages that do not demand complete server root access.

Virtual private servers are perfect for middle sized web pages, which do demand root access to the hosting server's config files. Generally, there are a bunch of VPS web server hosting accounts sharing the same server. Still, each of them is insulated from the others and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated physical machine set up and accessed by you and only you. It ensures a gigantic amount of resources. It also offers complete root access, which makes it an ideal environment for any type of website that needs a web hosting service.

The only question that's left is:

Which website hosting corporation should I settle on?

As mentioned above, there aren't many web hosting companies offering warez web hosting services because of legal entanglements. Such hosts are being shut down practically every month. Because of that, if you desire to provide such a service, you should do it on your very own computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most widely spread kind of web hosting service. Hence, every website hosting vendor offers it. Not all of them, however, provide solutions such as Virtual Private Servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated web hosting servers. Most of the small sized web hosting providers do not have the means required for offering those solutions. You can easily recognize such web hosting companies by the kinds of solutions that they are making available and by the manner in which they present them to the clientele. For example, certain hosting providers permit you to start with a small scale website hosting account and subsequently move to a more advanced one, if you deem it obligatory to do so. This is quite suitable, since you do not need to move web portals between web servers and there is no chance of suffering network downtime because of all the problems that may appear.

We, at CliqSpot provide all kinds of solutions and possess the needed web server resources and personnel to guarantee that their customers will not encounter any predicaments when changing services, which is what a top hosting provider is in fact all about.