Monday, January 17, 2011

What is Web Hosts / Web Hosting?

web hostsWeb host providers provide a type of Internet hosting service (dedicated server hosts / dedicated web hosts or some other type of hosting services) that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called collocation or Housing as it is commonly called in Latin America or France.

Web hosing types:

Dedicated server hosts / dedicated web hosts are widely used and most common around the world’s web / website publishers.  Most people have the tendency for cheapest web hosting. Anyway, our talk is not about that. We are discussing only the different types of web hosts or web hosting which are available throughout the web world:

  • Free web hosting service
  • Shared web hosting service
  • Reseller web hosting
  • Virtual Dedicated Server
  • Dedicated hosting service
  • Managed hosting service
  • Colocation web hosting service
  • Cloud Hosting
  • Clustered hosting
  • Grid hosting
  • Home server

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