Hosting Description

You have a notion that you would like to convert into a website? Your very first move should be to uphold your enthusiasm and find a spot for your web page on the web so that it will be constantly available for the whole world to see.

Where should you host your website?

Since the number of web pages on the web has increased exponentially during the last few years, the need for website hosting services has also lead to the emergence of innumerable hosting suppliers. These are firms that offer you disk storage space for your own web page on their servers.

Types of web hosting services

The reach of hosting services fluctuates tremendously, so do the needs of the web page owners. The most basic type of web hosting is the small-scale file hosting solution, where files can be uploaded using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web-based user interface. Lots of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) deliver this service free of cost. Personal web page owners and firms can also get web hosting services from different hosting vendors. Personal website hosting services are typically either free, advertisement-sponsored, or moderately priced. Business web hosting services usually cost more, but due to the huge competition on the hosting marketplace, a growing number of hosting service providers, like us at Bullionhost , Manchester, United Kingdom Web Hosting., provide business hosting services at budget prices and with flexible invoicing periods.

Types of websites and their requirements

The free-of-charge web hosting platform is normally sufficient for personal sites like portfolios or blogs. A more resource-requiring web site, such as a social network or a corporate site, needs a more advanced web hosting solution that provides database support and application development platforms (e.g. PHP). If you want to build an e-store, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the web hosting distributor of your choosing. Now, SSL certificates are supplied by the majority of web hosting providers.

The hosting Control Panel

The web hosting packages provider normally also provides a Control Panel tool for handling your website files, email boxes, mail aliases, domains, DNS records, etc.

Service reliability

When choosing a hosting solutions provider, service uptime is a very important criterion. The accessibility of a website is calculated on an annual basis by taking into account the time when the web site is publicly available and visible on the World Wide Web. Network and service uptime guarantees, therefore, should be attentively examined when ordering a web hosting service. You should double-check the service-level agreements and the Terms of Service of the web hosting accounts provider of your choosing in advance. Reading online reviews from existing customers is also a very relevant step before you choose to register.

The shared web hosting solution

The most popular and affordable type of web hosting service is the shared web hosting solution. It includes 24-7-365 client support, which is an enormous advantage for customers who would not like to deal with server maintenance tasks, but could also hinder clients who want to have more authority over the web hosting server. For such users, a VPSs or a dedicated servers would be more appropriate. Most popular applications and scripts work alright on a shared server. Moreover, the shared web hosting solution is more affordably priced than other kinds of hosting solutions, like the dedicated hosting, since the hosting plans provider divides the shared hosting server among multiple users. The shared hosting solution normally involves resource usage limits that ensure that the separate clients do not meddle with each other and that the web server remains stable.

Administering your shared hosting account

Shared website hosting plans normally offer a web-based web hosting Control Panel GUI, such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, and so on. Most of the large-sized hosting suppliers, again like us at Bullionhost , Manchester, United Kingdom Web Hosting., utilize their own custom-designed Control Panel interface.

Web server maintenance

With the shared website hosting platform, the hosting solutions provider is responsible for administering the web and mail servers, for installing web server software, software updates and patches, and for providing technical support to its customers. The majority of web servers are based on the Linux Operating System. The hosting provider's admins are responsible for keeping the Operating System up to date, unless you have a dedicated web hosting server and full root privileges.