Web Hosting Explanation

Web hosting is a kind of Internet service that allows persons and companies to make their sites reachable on the web. Web hosting providers are companies that offer space on a web server held in a datacenter facility and ensure constant service uptime.

Where do you begin?

The Internet has become a key factor in every person's everyday life. It gives you the possibility to earn some cash on the side, but can also be a chief source of revenue. In order to place advertisements on your site or to promote a commodity that you sell, you always require a hosting service, which will make sure that your web site is safe and constantly up and running. But how do you discover one that is inexpensive and yet dependable enough?

The shared web hosting solution

The solution web hosting companies have introduced is named shared web hosting. With the shared web hosting solution, many shared web hosting accounts are accommodated on the same server. There are severe limitations on the system resources that each web hosting account can in fact utilize, thus making certain that they do not meddle with each other. The shared solution offers acceptable performance and is more affordably priced than, let's say, a dedicated hosting server, which is utilized by only one single user. The shared web hosting solution allows web hosting distributors to offer their clients modest prices. It typically comes with user-friendly web hosting Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at BlueCap provide, and allows everyone to manage their web pages without bothering about server configuration and maintenance tasks, which are entirely taken care of by the hosting service provider.

VPS hosting

With the VPS hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical machine with other private virtual hosting server clients, but you are allotted a dedicated share of the system resources. The virtual private web server solution is the middle ground between the much cheaper shared hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated server hosting solution, and is an excellent solution for anyone who wishes to run, for instance, an audio or video streaming website or a community web site. The circumstance that you need to deal with the server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a disadvantage, but this could also be a big asset if you indeed need to implement certain server configuration changes - something that would be unthinkable on a shared web server.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Dedicated hosting servers are in the majority of situations much more expensive than shared hosting or Virtual Private Server hosting solutions. You might wonder why would anyone want to use a dedicated web server then? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a resource-requiring web portal, or simply has very special web server configuration and security requirements, the best option would be a dedicated hosting web server that you or your admins can administer directly. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is not a concern. You acquire complete server root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and interfering with your sites.