Web hosting

Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your web browser is essentially just a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto your web browser. In general, a web site is made up of many web pages. And a web page is basically composed of texts and graphic images. All these web pages need to be stored on the web servers so that online users can visit your website. Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, you will need to host your site on a web server. When your site goes live on the web server, online users can then browse your website on the Internet. Company that provides the web servers to host your website is called web hosting providers. A well established web hosting provider sometimes hosts up to thousands of Web sites. For example, iPowerWeb is a popular web hosting company that hosts more than 300,000 websites. For this reason, a web hosting company need many web servers (essentially, these are computers) to 'store' the website. And all these web servers are connected to the Internet via a broadband Internet connection and housed in a physical building called 'data center'. To ensure that all web servers are safe, secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a physically secure 24/7 with protection against fire environment, HVAC temperature control, virus detection, saving computer data, redundant power backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities.

What are the different types of web hosting?

There are different types out there web hosting companies with different characteristics. The main types of web hosts can be organized into the following categories

Shared Hosting

In shared hosting (also known as virtual web hosting name), many websites share space on the same physical web servers. According to the host, a physical web server can host hundreds to even thousands of different sites at the same time. You may wonder if a physical web server is shared by many websites, will the performance of the web server deteriorate? In fact, web servers are usually equipped with high-end powerful computer, therefore it can support up to a certain number of websites without any problem. But when the web server is overloaded and exceeded the reasonable number of sites that can support, then you will begin to experience a slower response from the web server. However, reputation and experience web hosting provider will constantly monitor the performance of the Web server and add new web servers when deem necessary without sacrificing the benefits of the website owners. Since a physical web server is shared (disk space, computer processing power, bandwidth, memory) by many websites, the web hosting provider can therefore afford to offer a lower hosting price. For the same reason, websites on the shared hosting will accept the response time of the slow server. As a general rule,

Reseller hosting

In reseller hosting, a web hosting provider offers web server storage to third parties (ie reseller) at a discount price, who then resell the web server storage to their customers. Typically, resellers are web consultants including web designers, web developers, or system integration company who resell the web as a service added accommodation to complete their range of other services. Commonly, resellers can receive up to 50 percent off the price of a hosting account from the web hosting provider. And resellers are allowed to decide its own pricing structure and even establish its own branding (in other words, reseller setup its web hosting company on the Internet and start selling hosting plans Web under its brand). For clients of the dealer, the dealer is the web hosting provider. In case of technical problems such as server down and access problem arise, the resellers will have to correspond directly with the actual web host provider. Due to the communication process taken place between customer and dealer distributor actual provider of hosting and back and forth, undoubtedly problems will take longer to resolve. Unless you use your own website or website nonprofit and willing to take the risks of poor support from reseller, reseller hosting is generally not a good option.

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