Web Hosting: A Beginner's Guide

So are you looking to learn about web hosting and what it has to offer or may you not know much about web hosting? There is no shame in not knowing this information. Everyone has to start at the beginning at some point. On that note, let's start learning about web hosting. First of all, what is web hosting and how does it work? Web Hosting Sri Lanka is the business practice of providing space and bandwidth on a high-powered computer server that is connected to the Internet at very high speeds. Hosting companies maintain large networks of high-powered web servers in a physical location known as a data center. These computer servers are connected to a very fast and generally redundant Internet connection. Data centers have primary and backup power, a fast internet connection, and security monitoring staff. Web hosting companies provide a portion of available disk space and bandwidth to a customer for a monthly fee. Once the customer is registered, they can upload files to their personal space on the web server and the information is visible to anyone interested on the Internet. The monthly fee charged by the web hosting company is much less than what it would cost to run a server from your own home or data center. This is the reason these companies exist. They take care of all the hardware, software, and other technical needs for you. Types of web hosting There are many different types of web hosting offerings, but the top three are shared, reseller, and dedicated. Each type of hosting has a different purpose. Shared web hosting Shared web hosting is the most popular form of hosting. Shared hosting is a part of the disk space and bandwidth provided to you by the web hosting company on a high powered server. There are many other websites hosted on this server and the hosting company probably has quite a few of these servers in a large data center. Server resources are shared by as many other websites as are assigned to that computer. Shared web hosting is the best form of web hosting if you are looking for a great price and you don't have more than a couple thousand daily visitors to your site. Reseller web hosting Reseller web hosting is a popular and low cost solution for starting your own web hosting business. There are two types of hosting reseller, private label and service reseller. Private label is the best type of reseller plan because it allows you to maintain full control over your clients' websites. A private label plan allows the reseller to keep the web hosting customer's full monthly payment, but the reseller must pay a monthly fee to the largest hosting company for the reseller space. The more hosting accounts a private label reseller can sell, the higher the profit for them. Private label hosting allows you to host many more websites than if you were using shared hosting for each one. This is a great solution for someone who has a lot of sites that they need to host in one location to save money. The service plan reseller resells the regular web hosting plans of a larger web hosting company, but you get a discounted price for providing the customer and earn a monthly fee as long as you remain a customer. This plan does not allow monitoring of customer websites and you only keep a portion of the potentially monthly income. Dedicated web hosting Dedicated web hosting is the most powerful and cost-effective solution for hosting a busy website without having to buy your own equipment and pay hundreds of dollars a month for a fast internet connection. Dedicated hosting consists of a single server with no one else hosted on that computer. This allows for the most configuration options. Anyone with a busy website will find that dedicated hosting is the necessary option. Web hosting considerations Wondering about the rest of the information on the web hosting plans? In this section, I'll explain the most important considerations when choosing a good web host. Price The price of web hosting services is one of the most important. There are many hosting companies with cheap hosting packages, but they may be lacking in other areas. Don't be fooled by the price of a hosting package.