Shared Hosting Explanation

As its name indicates, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting online content. There are different forms and types of hosting, depending on the purpose and on the objectives. Yet, they all involve hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Internet. A host is in fact a server that is linked to the World Wide Web and has its own personal IP address, which enables people to have access to it through the Web. The server's architecture and its resources are dependent on the sort of web hosting solution it will be used for.

What are the different types of web hosting?

Depending on the mission, the web hosting solution may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of web hosting permits the clients to accommodate their files on a given web hosting server. With the standard file storage hosting solution, the files that are stored may only be accessed by the client that's using the service. This web hosting service generally pertains to backups of computers , docs, personal files and even other web hosting servers. This service may also have certain limitations when it comes to the server storage space and the root access. There may also be web traffic quota limitations, but that depends on the given service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is quite similar to the previous web hosting service type. Nonetheless, in contrast with the file hosting service, the warez web hosting solution is utilized for disseminating licensed work without the authorization of the license holder. To put it briefly - it is associated with the illegitimate distribution of files and docs. There are a lot of methods for this to be achieved, but the 2 chief methods are - through simple HTTP downloading and via P2P connections. The first method involves either some web page, or, most typically, just a directory on a web server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thus download proprietary files for free. The second way involves a P2P connection, making use of the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people swap files between each other. There aren't many website hosting vendors that allow such type of web hosting on their web servers, mainly due to all the judicial predicaments that it entails. Usually such web sites are hosted on private dedicated web hosting servers that are registered by third-party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

E-mail Web Hosting - this service is utilized with both shared web hosting and dedicated hosting servers, depending on the user's wish. If you would like to have your very own personal SMTP email server, then you will need either a virtual private web hosting server or a dedicated web server that provides the level of access required to complete such a task. For regular e-mail web hosting ends, however, you can avail of a conventional shared website hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a service that's very famous, since the web hosting and the email hosting services are being served by 2 separate servers, usually belonging to different web hosting providers.

Shared Hosting - the most popular and regularly utilized hosting service these days. It's utilized for hosting site files, whose sort is dependent on the Operating System the web hosting server is running - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files need different web hosting server OSs, or else they won't be displayed accurately on the Web. This type of web hosting may include web storage space and bandwidth limits, root-level access and CPU usage limitations.

Depending on the aims and on the objectives, the client should pick the type of web hosting server that he demands for his work, and, of course, the website hosting firm that's going to provide it. There are several types of web hosting servers, depending on the specifications and the web hosting services that they provide. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared hosting server provides a smaller amount of system resources, which, of course, is manifested in the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small size and middle sized web sites, which do not demand huge amounts of server storage space and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they function on the same principle as the shared hosting servers. Nonetheless, there are much less customers hosted on the same hosting server. Therefore, each of them will obtain a bigger share of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, data storage space, bandwidth and CPU. Excellent for hosting heavy web pages that do not require root-level access.

VPS hosting are excellent for medium scale online portals, which do need root-level access to the hosting server's configuration files. Generally, there are a bunch of private virtual hosting server accounts sharing the same physical server. In spite of that, each of them is autonomous from the others and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Hosting - a completely dedicated physical server configured and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees an immense quantity of system resources. It also includes complete root access, which renders it a perfect environment for any kind of site that needs a website hosting service.

The only question that remains is:

Which hosting supplier should I settle on?

As mentioned, there are not many hosting companies offering warez hosting solutions because of legal troubles. Such hosts are being shut down practically every month. Therefore, if you wish to run such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared web hosting solution is the most widely spread kind of web hosting service. Therefore, each and every website hosting vendor provides it. Not all of them, however, provide services such as private virtual web hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated hosting servers. Most of the smaller hosting corporations do not have the resources demanded for offering those services. You can easily identify such companies by the kinds of solutions that they are supplying and by the manner in which they introduce them to the customers. For instance, certain companies allow you to begin with a low-end website hosting package and afterwards move to a bigger one, if you deem it compulsory to do so. This is very suitable, because you do not have to transmit sites between servers and there is no possibility of facing downtime because of all the problems that may show up.

We, at AgooCloud offer all types of services and possess the needed web hosting server resources and staff to ensure that their clients will not suffer any problems when changing services, which is what a top hosting supplier is in fact all about.