What's Hosting?Types of Hosting.

If you decide to create a website, the first thing you need to do - is to choose a domain name and hosting. What is a domain we have already discussed in previous articles. That's why today we'll see, what exactly is hosting and what are the types of hosting.

What is hosting?
So, you chose the theme future of the site, wrote the first article, make them out nicely, and illustrated with photographs. Now we want to put these materials on the Internet to be accessible to all users. For this purpose you need hosting - a service for the provision of resources (disk space) for the physical placement of information on the server.
Internet company that provides hosting services, called the "hoster" , hosting company or hosting provider.
All information hosting providers stored on servers - they are powerful computers with special software, with a permanent high-speed Internet connection. In order to provide access to your site 24 hours 7 days a week, they should always be included.
When you order web hosting, hosting companies allocate you on your server of the disk space provided by your service plan. This directory (secured with login and password) will contain your site.
In order to upload your files to the hosting service you will need a special program in FTP client.

Types of hosting.
Hosting can be free and paid.

Dignity in a free hosting id one - it is free. But there are many disadvantages:
- hosting provider will place adverticement;
- hosting provider hosts your website, but offers no guarantee of quality;
- speed is slower than on paid;
- limited opportunities (eg, no PHP or MySQL);
- you will get the domain name of the 3rd level, which is owned by hosting provider and in case of changing hosting you will need to change it.

Paid hosting involves a monthly fee for services rendered. And the sum depends on the amount of disk space, the maximum number of sites that support multiple functions and quality of services.

We can distinguish the following types of hosting.
1. Virtual hosting. This is the most affordable and common form of hosting, it is a server that hosts multiple sites. All users have equal opportunities, limited installed software. For each site, create a virtual server where you store files and folders. Hosting is ideal for small and medium-sized sites. By cons include the restriction of the permissible load on the server.
2. Virtual Dedicated Server (VPS) - the disk space on a server with a stand-alone operating system and fixed resources. It means that, other sites will not be able to use the resources allocated to you. You get the opportunity to administer their own virtual server and install and configure the required programs. But, it requires skills of system administrator.
3. Dedicated server. At your disposal is transferred the entire server. You can install any operating system, software, configure everything to run only your own tasks. Hosting provider will deal only with server maintenance. This hosting is used for large projects with high requirements.
4. Colocation - placing your own server at the datacenter of hosting company.

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