Hosting Explanation

Hosting is a service that web hosts provide so that you can put your website on the web.

How can people discover your website?

When you develop a web site and you want other individuals to observe it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a server. If you attempt to render the web site visible on the World Wide Web by hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it online all the time, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does hosting work?

Web hosting corporations offer you space for your site on their high-end computers (servers) and ensure constant website availability. When someone writes your web site address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web hosting server where they can take a look at the content of your website.

Web hosting varieties

With the advance of Internet technologies, several types of web hosting services have appeared to match the various requirements of website owners, among them shared hosting services, virtual server web hosting services and dedicated server hosting services.

Shared website hosting

Shared website hosting is the most widely used type of hosting, and is also the easiest to begin with. It is a service where one single web hosting server is shared between numerous web hosting users who are limited by the CPU, traffic and server disk drive space quotas that they have been allotted. This type of website hosting is usually less expensive - you don't need to pay for the entire web server in advance, since it is shared among lots of web hosting account holders, and the web hosting provider can afford to offer much more modest prices. It is also much easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-installed with all the required software and the hosting vendor takes care of all server maintenance procedures and security updates on your behalf.

The weak side of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other web hosting customers and if one site becomes really popular it may affect (and slow down) all the other sites on that web server, but the majority of web hosting companies, including us at eTesLa Technologies LLC, have protection platforms in place that prevent that from occurring.

A description of a website hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most common form of web hosting, most hosting distributors and hosting users simply call it web hosting or website hosting. As there is a huge competition on the web hosting market, most web hosting providers strive to offer moderate prices and bonuses with their services. We, for example, offer different website hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and annual, based on your finances. If you pick the yearly invoicing cycle, you will get a gift - one free-of-cost domain registration.

VPS

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your web site outgrows the resources offered by your shared hosting plan, a private virtual server web hosting package is an excellent choice. VPS hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS web server hosting customers, but the disk space is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured almost like a real dedicated server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a VPS web server are not shared. Additionally, the virtualization software gives you much more autonomy to configure your virtual web hosting server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical know-how.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the user obtains an entire physical machine and can use all its resources. The dedicated server web hosting solution is the most reliable of all website hosting solutions and offers a myriad of customization options - the users can select the hardware and software specifications that will satisfy their requirements. Dedicated system resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated web server hosting plan is a perfect choice for a heavy-traffic corporate portal, for instance - you will not share the web hosting server's resources with anyone else and will be bestowed with full root access. You will exert full control over the web hosting server, which will enable you to make any configuration changes that you might need. The setback of the dedicated web server hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical expertise is needed - unless you engage an IT expert, it will be your obligation to administer and configure the dedicated hosting server. The dedicated web server hosting solution also costs much more, since the cost of the physical server isn't shared among any other clients.

A web hosting advice for beginner users

If you are just starting to build your website and are looking for a hosting solution to start out with, the shared website hosting solution remains the most logical choice. If your site outgrows your shared web hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not involve migration of your website files, since only the features of your account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting package to a more advanced one at any particular time without having to worry about the number of days remaining until the expiration date. Additionally, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared hosting plan and still need more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it signifies that your site's popularity has grown!), there always is the possibility to move to a VPS server web hosting solution or a dedicated web server hosting solution without having to change web hosting providers.