Different Types of Web Hosting Services

Sep 26
06:17

2012

Diane L. Murphy

Diane L. Murphy

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Where web designing and web development are concerned with the production,Different Types of Web Hosting Services Articles functionality and maintenance of web sites, web hosting is a service which makes these websites accessible to millions of visitors through World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies which provide these websites some space in their servers under a unique domain name. Once registered with these companies under a particular domain name, the websites are accessible with the domain name from any corner of the world.

Scope of web hosting

Web hosting companies provide a wide range of services in terms of small-scale and large-scale hosting services. Websites containing small no of pages and very little no of files as well as websites containing large no of web pages and files can reside under same server. The companies provide their customers a control panel for administrating their website. In exchange of the service, the customer needs to pay a rental charge which varies according to company, location, quality of service etc.

Aside from direct hosting, any web hosts also allows their customers to run a web server for handling email and files. Many large companies need this kind of services.

Classification of hosting services

Hosting services differ in their features and functionalities. Some of them are-

Free web hosting service: Provides limited service to their customers and often supported by advertisement.

Shared web hosting service: All websites share same pool of resources such as CPU and RAM. All the websites resides in same server.

Reseller web hosting: The main host allows their customers to be host themselves. The hosting capability differs in sizes and functionalities.

Dedicated hosting service: The user gets a fully dedicated server, of which he is the root user and can control it fully.

Managed hosting service: The user owns a web server but does not have full control over it.

Colocation web hosting service: The user owns the server while the hosting company takes care of the server and provides physical storage. This is the most expensive type.

Cloud hosting:  Most recent approach of hosting and is based on load balanced servers and more reliable than normal hosts.

Clustered hosting: Clustered hosting allows hosting same content in multiple servers for better utilization of resources. Clustered hosting is perfect for those websites which needs high availability for the whole time.

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