Hosting Description

Hosting is a service that hosting companies provide so that you can put your web site on the Internet.

How can people find your website?

When you set up a website and you want other individuals to observe it, you will have to publish (or upload) it to a web hosting server. If you attempt to make the site reachable on the web by hosting it on your own personal computer, there is no way for you to keep it constantly online, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does hosting work?

Web hosting firms offer you hard disk storage space for your web site on their powerful computers (hosting servers) and guarantee continuous website availability. When someone writes your web address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the web hosting server where they can have a glimpse at the content of your web site.

Types of web hosting

With the advance of online technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into existence to fulfill the different demands of web site owners, including shared website hosting services, virtual web server hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.

Shared website hosting

Shared web hosting is the most widely used form of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where a single web hosting server is divided between numerous web hosting clients who are restricted by the CPU, bandwidth and hard disk space quotas that they have been allotted. This form of hosting is commonly cheaper - you don't have to purchase the entire web server upfront, since it is shared between numerous hosting account holders, and the web hosting company can afford to provide much lower prices. It is also easier to use - the server is pre-configured with all the required software and the hosting supplier handles all server maintenance procedures and security updates for you.

The disadvantage of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the hosting server's system resources with other individuals and if one web site becomes really busy it may affect (and slow down) all the other web sites on that server, but most web hosting vendors, including us at godadywebhost, have security platforms in place that obstruct that from occurring.

A description of a website hosting service

Since shared web hosting is the most widely used type of web hosting, the majority of hosting service providers and web hosting clients simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is a considerable competition on the hosting market, the majority of web hosting firms endeavor to provide affordable prices and bonuses with their web hosting services. We, for instance, offer different web hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and yearly, depending on your resources. If you pick the yearly invoicing cycle, you will get a bonus - one free domain name registration.

VPS plans

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your web site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared web hosting plan, a private virtual web server hosting plan is an excellent choice. VPS web hosting users still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS hosting customers, but the hard disk is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed system resources and can be configured practically like an actual dedicated hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private hosting server are not shared. What's more, the virtualization software gives you much more freedom to configure your private virtual web server, but it also presupposes a more advanced degree of technical competence.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the client gets an entire physical machine and can use all its system resources. The dedicated web hosting solution is the most reliable of all hosting solutions and offers many configuration possibilities - the dedicated web server hosting users can pick the hardware and software specifications that will answer their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server is an excellent option for a repeatedly visited corporate site, for instance - you will not share the dedicated hosting web server's system resources with anyone else and will have complete server root access. You will exert full authority over the hosting server, which will allow you to implement any configuration changes that you might require. The disadvantage of the dedicated server hosting solution is that a more advanced level of technical proficiency is needed - unless you hire an Information Technology expert, you will be responsible for administering and configuring the dedicated hosting server. The dedicated web server hosting solution is also far more expensive, since the cost of the server isn't shared among any other customers.

A website hosting recommendation for beginners

If you are just starting to build your site and are seeking a web hosting solution to begin with, the shared website hosting solution persists to be the best choice. If your web site grows beyond your shared hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not necessitate migration of your web site files, since only the features of your web hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting package to a more powerful one at any particular moment without having to worry about the number of days remaining before expiration. What is more, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared website hosting plan and still require more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it signifies that your web site's popularity has risen!), there always is the possibility to switch to a private virtual server hosting platform or a dedicated server web hosting solution without the need to change web hosting service providers.