Web Hosting Explained

Web hosting is a type of online service that allows individuals and corporations to make their websites accessible online. Hosting providers are companies that offer hard drive storage space on a server held in a datacenter facility and guarantee continuous website availability.

Where do you start?

The World Wide Web has become a key factor in every individual's everyday routine. It gives you the ability to make extra cash, but can also be a major source of income. In order to put commercials on your website or to advertise a commodity that you offer, you always require a hosting solution, which will make certain that your online portal is safe and always accessible. But how do you find one that is affordably priced and yet stable enough?

The shared hosting solution

The solution hosting companies have brought forth is called shared hosting. With the shared hosting solution, many shared hosting accounts are accommodated on one and the very same server. There are strict limitations on the system resources that each shared hosting account can in fact avail of, thus guaranteeing that they do not meddle with each other. The shared hosting solution offers decent performance and costs less than, let's say, a dedicated web hosting server, which is used by only one single person. The shared hosting solution permits web hosting corporations to offer their customers modest prices. It typically comes with user-friendly hosting Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at NACTech Hosting provide, and lets everybody manage their web portals without bothering about server installation and maintenance procedures, which are taken care of solely by the hosting service provider.

VPS web hosting

With the VPS web hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical server with other VPS web hosting users, but you are allocated a dedicated share of the resources. The virtual hosting server solution is the middle ground between the much less expensive shared web hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated web hosting server solution, and is a very good solution for anyone who wants to make, for instance, an audio or video streaming web site or a community site. The fact that you have to take care of the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a disadvantage, but this could also be a big plus if you really have to make certain server configuration modifications - something that would be unthinkable on a shared hosting server.

Dedicated Servers

Dedicated servers are in the majority of cases much more expensive than shared or virtual private web server hosting solutions. You might ask why would anyone want to use a dedicated hosting server then? The reply is pretty simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-absorbing site, or simply has very exact server configuration and security requirements, the most reasonable option would be a dedicated hosting web server that you or your techs can administer directly. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You have root privileges and can use 100 percent of the physical server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and meddling with your online portals.