What is Hosting?

Hosting is a service that companies offer so that you can publish your website on the World Wide Web.

How can people open your website?

When you set up a website and you wish other people to notice it, you will have to publish (or upload) it to a web server. If you try to make the web site visible on the web by hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it constantly up and running, which is why website hosting services appeared.

How does hosting work?

Hosting vendors offer you disk storage space for your web site on their high-power computers (web hosting servers) and ensure continuous service uptime. When somebody writes your web site address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the hosting server where they can see the content of your site.

Web hosting types

With the advancement of Internet technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into being to match the various demands of website owners, among them shared website hosting services, Virtual Private Server hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared hosting is the most widely used form of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where a single server is shared between numerous web hosting clients who are restricted by the CPU, traffic and web hosting server hard disk storage space quotas that they have been allocated. This form of hosting is normally less expensive - you don't need to purchase the whole hosting server upfront, since it is shared among a lot of web hosting users, and the web hosting distributor can afford to offer much more moderate prices. It is also easier to use - the server is pre-installed with all the necessary software and the web hosting supplier takes care of all server maintenance tasks and security updates on your behalf.

The weak side of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the hosting server's system resources with other web hosting clients and if a given website becomes very busy it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the websites on that web server, but most hosting vendors, including us at Web Plus Hosting Pakistan, have security systems at work that obstruct that from happening.

A definition of a website hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of web hosting, the majority of hosting suppliers and web hosting clients simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense rivalry on the website hosting marketplace, the majority of hosting firms try to provide low prices and gifts with their web hosting services. We, for instance, offer different web hosting plans and two invoicing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you choose the annual invoicing cycle, you will receive a present - one free domain name registration.

VPS

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated web hosting solution. If your web site outgrows the resources offered by your shared website hosting plan, a private virtual server hosting package is a suitable option. private virtual web server hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other Virtual Private Server web hosting account holders, but the physical server is partitioned using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured almost like an actual dedicated server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a VPS web hosting server are not shared. Furthermore, the virtualization software gives you much more autonomy to configure your VPS server, but it also calls for a more advanced degree of technical proficiency.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the client gets an entire dedicated web hosting server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated web hosting solution is the most flexible of all website hosting solutions and offers multiple configuration possibilities - the dedicated server hosting clients can choose the hardware and software specifications that will fulfill their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are two reasons why a dedicated web server hosting package is an excellent choice for a high resource-consuming corporate site, for example - you will not share the hosting server's system resources with anyone else and will be given full root privileges. You will exert complete authority over the web hosting server, which will permit you to implement any configuration changes that you might need. The weak side of the dedicated server web hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical competence is needed - unless you employ an IT professional, it will be your duty to manage and configure the dedicated hosting server. The dedicated server hosting solution also costs far more, since the cost of the dedicated hosting web server isn't shared between any other customers.

A hosting advice for beginners

If you are just starting to build your website and are seeking a web hosting solution to begin with, the shared website hosting solution persists to be the most relevant choice. If your web site grows beyond your hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is very easy and requires no migration of your files, since only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting package to a more advanced one at any given time without worrying about the time left until expiration. Furthermore, if you finally reach the most advanced shared website hosting plan and still need more system resources (which is great sometimes - it means that your web site's popularity has expanded!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a virtual private hosting server or a dedicated server web hosting platform without needing to swap hosting providers.