Web hosting is more than just putting some files on the web server. It is also a relationship between website owner and web hosting provider. The purpose of websites is to continuously offer access to web pages. Serving web pages without interruption or failures all around the clock. Of course, 100% up-time is unrealistic. A reasonable expectation is about 99.9% up-time. This means that on average 8 hours per year the system could be down. This is acceptable and doesn’t cause much trouble to either website owner or visitors.
The things change when there are frequent malfunctions and the website is inaccessible for hours or even days. This is where we can start distinguishing good hosting from a not so good one. If the hosting provider doesn’t have good support then the website owner quickly becomes frustrated and if the problems are not solved within few hours the hosting service looses that customer. Loosing many customers means also loosing reputation. Bad reputation is the last thing a hosting service provider wants.
The next important fact about hosting providers is the service they offer and/or advertise. To attract customers many web hosting providers promise unlimited “everything”. Is this possible? Well, yes and no. Theoretically they don’t limit disk size, bandwidth, number of domains, etc. The truth is that the web server is a physical machine, a computer with limited hard disk, limited processor capabilities, limited amount of memory, i.e. the computer is a limited resource. In addition to this, our web server is not hosting only our website (unless we have such hosting plan). Usually it hosts hundreds of websites. All the server resources are limited and shared between all websites hosted on this server. So you should understand properly the word “unlimited”.
Another important fact about web hosting is connectivity with the internet. The connection between hosting provider and ISP should not be some bottleneck which limits how fast our pages load. The hosting provider should have a fast and reliable connection with the internet backbone. Pages that load slowly and even more slowly when the server is loaded are not visited frequently. We might loose visitors only because of poor internet connection of our web hosting provider.
Before you decide for web hosting company it is a good idea to check all key factors that contribute to fast and reliable hosting. You can contribute a lot to speed up your pages if you limit the resources that are needed to load the page. Pages without all the bells and whistles can also be useful to the visitors.
Hosting is an extremely specialized and detail specific business which is the reason it is not prescribed that you attempt to have your own particular website. A few individuals imagine that it is conceivable to have a website from their home web server, however unless you have a business web bundle introduced at your home this is unimaginable in light of the fact that home servers don’t have enough space or data transfer capacity to completely bolster a website day in and day out. The critical piece of this arrangement is that there is no issue on the specialized angles that implies there is hardly any comprehension required for the specialized issues. In this all the management is finished by the primary web host. Cloud hosting is the most recent arrangement that is available in the web hosting industry.
In this the client has the handling force on various interconnected servers. The client just needs to pay for the assets that he is utilizing frequently. The client has the ability to get to the transfer speed, memory and handling force. Cloud server offers greatest level of security utilizing firewall watchman and difficult to reach plate space.These servers are normally suitable for business looking for better execution without high expenses. Windows and Linux are the most normally utilized working frameworks utilized today.Most of the hosting organizations offer windows hosting, Linux hosting and java hosting arrangements to its customers.>
Normally, shared web hosting administrations are packaged. With an insignificant month to month fee, it offers multi-stage website arrangements. Packaged administrations that are more than notwithstanding for your organizations incorporate constrained measure of plate storage room for web pages, restricted measure of month to month information exchange, email sending administrations with physical email boxes that permits you email nom de plumes at your area name, boundless record exchange protocol (FTP) services.
Shared hosing packages are also bundled with web statistics packages that will give you an oppotunity to view the traffic of your website. Raw statistics are provided and you can even take advantage of the 24/7 technical support package.
