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What Indeed is Shared Hosting

As its name implies, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting web content. There are various varieties and kinds of web hosting, depending on the mission and on the usage. In spite of that, they all pertain to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Internet. A host is actually a web hosting service that is connected to the Internet and has its own personal IP address, which permits users to access it via the Internet. The web hosting server's architecture and its system resources are subject to the sort of web hosting service it's going to be utilized for.

What are the various types of web hosting?

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Based on the mission, the hosting service may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of hosting allows the clients to accommodate their files on a certain web hosting server. With the common file web hosting solution, the files that are stored may only be accessed by the client that's utilizing the service. This hosting service mainly is connected with backups of personal computers , docs, private files and even other servers. This solution may also impose given limitations when it comes to the disk storage space and the root-level access. There may also be web traffic limits, but that depends on the particular web host.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez hosting solution is comparable with the previous web hosting service type. In spite of that, unlike the file storage hosting service, the warez hosting service is used for circulating licensed work without being given the green light by the patent owner. In short - it refers to the illegitimate propagation of files and materials. There are a lot of ways for this to be attained, but the two main methods are - via simple HTTP downloading and via P2P connections. The first one entails either some web portal, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thus download patented documents for free. The second approach involves a peer-to-peer connection, availing of the so-called Torrent servers, via which users exchange files between each other. There are a few web hosting providers that permit such form of hosting on their web servers, chiefly due to all the judicial entanglements that it entails. Generally such web portals are hosted on private dedicated servers that are registered by 3rd party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Mail Web Hosting - this solution is utilized with both shared website hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the client's intention. If you would like to build your own private SMTP server, then you will need either a virtual hosting server or a dedicated hosting server that provides the access level needed to complete such a task. For common mail hosting ends, however, you can create an ordinary shared web hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a service that's widely famous, because the web hosting and the mail hosting services are being served by 2 different servers, often owned by different hosts.

Shared Hosting - the most widely spread and universally used hosting service at the moment. It's used for hosting web site files, whose kind depends on the OS the server is running - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files demand concrete hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be exhibited properly on the Web. This type of hosting may involve server space and web traffic quota limits, root access and CPU usage limitations.

Based on the purpose and on the objectives, the client should pick the kind of web server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the website hosting corporation that's going to furnish it. There are several kinds of servers, based on the configuration and the website hosting services that they provide. These are:

Shared Website Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server offers a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, reflects on the cost of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small scale and middle size sites, which do not need enormous amounts of server storage space and traffic.

Semi-dedicated Hosting - they are based on the very same principle as the shared website hosting servers. However, there are much fewer clients sharing the same server. Because of that, each of them will have a larger quota of the hosting server's resources like RAM, disk storage, traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting bulky websites that do not require root privileges.

VPS hosting are perfect for medium online portals, which do demand root access to the web hosting server's config files. Commonly, there are a handful of virtual server hosting accounts situated on the same physical server. Nevertheless, each of them is autonomous from the others and has its own OS.

Dedicated Hosting - a completely dedicated physical server set up and accessed by you and only you. It guarantees a considerable amount of system resources. It also includes root privileges, which makes it the optimal solution for any type of web portal that needs a hosting solution.

The sole question that's left is:

Which web hosting supplier should I opt for?

As stated above, there are not many web hosting providers providing warez web hosting services due to legal entanglements. Such hosting companies are being shut down virtually every month. That is why, if you desire to run such a service, you should do it on your own computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most widely spread type of web hosting service. Therefore, each website hosting company offers it. Not all of them, however, provide services such as VPSs, Semi-dedicated Hosting and dedicated hosting servers. Most of the small scale hosting companies do not have the resources required for offering those services. You can easily recognize such hosting companies by the types of services that they are supplying and by the manner in which they introduce them to the clientele. For example, some web hosting companies allow you to commence with a smaller website hosting plan and afterwards upgrade to a more powerful one, if you deem it mandatory to do so. This is extremely convenient, because you do not need to migrate web sites between hosting servers and there is no possibility of suffering downtime due to all the complications that may occur.

We, at DinoServe.com offer all sorts of services and possess the required web server resources and personnel to ensure that their clients will not encounter any complications when changing services, which is what a top hosting distributor is in fact all about.