Web Hosting Description

You have a notion that you desire to transform into a website? Your first step should be to uphold your inspiration and discover a spot for your site on the Internet so that it will be always available for the whole world to see.

Where should you host your web page?

Since the number of web pages on the web has risen rapidly during the last couple of years, the need for website hosting services has also lead to the birth of innumerable web hosting service providers. These are firms that offer you disk drive space for your own web page on their hosting servers.

Varieties of hosting services

The range of web hosting services varies considerably, so do the needs of the website owners. The most basic web hosting type is the small-size file hosting solution, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web-based hosting Control Panel. Lots of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer this service free of charge. Personal web site possessors and companies can also get web hosting services from various web hosting suppliers. Personal website hosting services are usually either free, ad-sponsored, or low-priced. Business website hosting services usually cost more, but owing to the immense competition on the hosting marketplace, an increasing number of hosting firms, like us at KTX Hosting, distribute business web hosting services at reduced prices and with flexible billing cycles.

Kinds of web sites and their requirements

The free-of-charge website hosting platform is usually sufficient for personal websites such as portfolios or online journals. A more popular website, such as a community site or a corporate web portal, requires a more advanced website hosting package that provides database support and web application development platforms (e.g. PHP). If you wish to set up an online shop, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the web host of your choosing. At present, SSL certificates are offered by the majority of hosting service providers.

The web hosting Control Panel

The web hosting packages provider normally also offers a hosting Control Panel graphical user interface for administering your files, e-mailboxes, e-mail aliases, domain names, DNS records, etc.

Service reliability

When choosing a hosting vendor, service uptime is a very essential criterion. The availability of a website is assessed on a yearly basis by taking into consideration the time when the website is publicly available and discoverable on the Internet. Network and service availability guarantees, therefore, should be cautiously considered when ordering a website hosting plan. The best thing to do is double-check the SLAs and the Terms of Service of the hosting plans provider of your choice in advance. Finding online reviews from existing customers is also a pretty clever step before you choose to sign up.

The shared web hosting solution

The most widespread and affordable type of web hosting service is the shared web hosting solution. It offers 24-7 client support, which is a big plus for customers who would not like to cope with server maintenance tasks, but could also obstruct customers who want to have more authority over the server. For such clients, a virtual private servers or a dedicated hosting would be more suitable. Most popular applications and scripts work okay on a shared server. What's more, the shared web hosting solution is less expensive than other kinds of web hosting solutions, like the dedicated hosting, since the web hosting accounts provider splits the shared web server among many customers. The shared hosting solution usually includes resource usage restrictions that guarantee that the different customers do not interfere with each other and that the hosting server stays stable.

Administering your shared web hosting account

Shared web hosting packages usually offer a web-based Control Panel graphical user interface, such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, and so on. The majority of the large-size hosting vendors, again like us at KTX Hosting, avail of their own personal custom-made Control Panel.

Server maintenance

With the shared web hosting solution, the provider is responsible for administering the web and electronic mail servers, for installing server software, security updates and patches, and for offering tech support to its customers. Most web servers are based on the Linux OS. The web hosting service provider's system administrators are responsible for keeping the OS up to date, unless you have a dedicated hosting server and full root access.