Shared Hosting Description

As its name indicates, shared hosting is a solution, which involves hosting online content. There are various forms and types of hosting, based on the goals and on the objectives. However, they all pertain to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Web. A host is actually a server that is linked to the Web and has its own IP address, which permits users to access it via the Web. The hosting server's architecture and its resources depend on the form of web hosting solution it's going to be utilized for.

What are the different types of web hosting?

Depending on the objective, the hosting solution may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this type of hosting allows the users to store their files on a particular server. With the customary file storage web hosting service, the files that are accommodated may only be accessed by the customer that's availing of the service. This web hosting service typically entails backups of computers , docs, personal files and even other servers. This service may also impose certain limitations in terms of the data storage and the root-level access. There may also be web traffic limitations, but that is dependent on the given host.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez hosting service is comparable with the previous hosting service type. Nonetheless, unlike the file web hosting solution, the warez hosting solution is utilized for spreading proprietary materials without the approval of the licence bearer. In brief - it appertains to the unauthorized dissemination of files and docs. There are a lot of ways for this to be executed, but the two principal approaches are - via simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through P2P connections. The first one involves either some web site, or, most typically, simply a directory on a web server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download copyrighted files for free. The second way entails a P2P connection, using the so-called Torrent web servers, via which people transmit files between each other. There are very few website hosting vendors that permit such type of hosting on their servers, mostly because of all the legal problems that it presupposes. Usually such web pages are hosted on personal dedicated web servers that are registered by 3rd party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Email Hosting - this solution is used with both shared website hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, depending on the client's intention. If you want to launch your own personal SMTP electronic mail server, then you will need either a VPS server or a dedicated web hosting server that provides the level of access required to execute such an operation. For regular e-mail web hosting purposes, though, you can set up a conventional shared website hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a service that's widely famous, because the website hosting and the email hosting services are being served by two separate web servers, usually belonging to different web hosting providers.

Shared Hosting - the most widespread and widely used hosting service today. It's utilized for hosting site files, whose sort depends on the OS the web hosting server is availing of - Linux or Windows. Different types of files demand different web server OSs, otherwise they won't be shown properly on the Web. This form of hosting may include data space and web traffic restrictions, server root access and CPU usage limits.

Based on the mission and on the objectives, the user should select the sort of web hosting server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the web hosting supplier that's going to supply it. There are various sorts of servers, depending on the specs and the web hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server includes a smaller amount of system resources, which, of course, is manifested in the price of the service. It can be used for hosting small and middle size web sites, which do not demand immense quantities of disk space and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they are based on the very same principle as the shared website hosting servers. Yet, there are much less users hosted on the same web hosting server. That is why, each of them will enjoy a greater share of the hosting server's resources like RAM, disk storage, web traffic and CPU. Perfect for hosting heavy web sites that do not demand full root privileges.

VPS hosting are perfect for middle size web sites, which do demand root-level access to the web hosting server's configuration files. Normally, there are a few private virtual web hosting server accounts located on the same server. Even so, each of them is independent from the others and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Hosting - a completely dedicated physical server configured and accessed by you and solely you. It guarantees an immense quantity of system resources. It also gives complete root-level access, which renders it the optimal solution for any type of website that needs a web hosting service.

The only question that's left is:

Which web hosting company should I pick?

As mentioned, there aren't many web hosting providers providing warez web hosting solutions due to judicial complications. Such hosting companies are being closed down virtually every month. For that reason, if you wish to offer such a service, you should do it on your own PC. The shared website hosting service is the most widely spread kind of hosting service. Hence, each and every web hosting provider offers it. Not all of them, though, offer solutions such as VPSs, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated servers. Most of the smaller web hosting distributors do not have the resources required for maintaining those services. You can easily identify such web hosting companies by the sorts of solutions that they are making available and by the manner in which they introduce them to the customers. For example, certain hosts permit you to kick off with a smaller website hosting plan and afterwards move to a more powerful one, if you consider it compulsory to do so. This is very suitable, since you do not need to relocate sites between web hosting servers and there is no danger of facing service outages because of all the problems that may appear.

We, at Host Magi provide all sorts of services and possess the required server resources and staff to guarantee that their customers will not experience any hassles when changing services, which is what a top hosting vendor is in fact all about.