Web Hosting Guarantees
There’s a tremendous amount of web hosting companies vying for consumers business and there seems to be on the customers end a large amount of choice when it comes to choosing a web host and a web hosting package. Consumers generally look at price, reliability and customer support of the web hosting provider before anything else in choosing a hosting company and package. The choice of the customer requires a lot of research and study in order to make the right decision. Web companies have pushed to greater marketing games and gimmicks to attract new customers as of way of increasing business. Web hosting companies have been forced to do this and the latest trend comes from a long line of marketing ploys developed to increase business. The latest involves a guarantee of 99.9% server uptime or the hosting company will compensate you for your loss. This on the surface seems to be highly appealing to web hosting customers, but what does it involve? And can it work?
Unlimited Web Hosting
At the moment it can be very difficult ascertaining a good hosting provider from another as the Internet is now full of biased reviews, rubbish testimonials and paid blog posts. With the advent of unlimited hosting packages, it has made the task even harder to find a reputable provider. More and more companies are offering unlimited hosting packages, but are they really unlimited? And are they reliable?
Shared Web Hosting
Shared hosting is in fact web hosting but differs because the hosting server provides different pages for multiple and unique websites, each containing a different Internet domain name, all from a single web server. Most web hosting providers support shared hosting. Shared hosting is a little more cost effective and cheaper for companies to create and manage a web presence. This method however is typically not sufficient to handle high volumes of traffic. High volume traffic generally requires a dedicated web server either provided by a web hosting company or via in house means. In general terms shared hosting can be inappropriate for customers requiring extensive software development and or intense data driven web applications. Shared hosting generally has usage limitations allowing multiple web services to run inhibited and most hosting providers have extensive and well protected reliability features. Typically all applications meant to run on a standard web server will run on a shared hosting platform.
Dedicated Servers
A dedicated server or a dedicated hosting server can be leased directly from a hosting company. A dedicated server is usually leased by a commercial outfit or businesses who wish to retain total control over one server. Server administration or maintenance is generally provided as an add on cost by the web hosting company. Dedicated servers are generally located at independent data centers that are powered by redundant power services. Most commercial enterprises and businesses wish to have dedicated servers because they provide a larger return on investment and also less overhead costs. Unlike collocation, the actual hardware of the server is owned by the hosting company or provider. In many cases they will also help provide support for the applications and or operating system.
Web Hosting History
Prior to 1991 web hosting as we know it did not in fact, exist. In fact prior to 1991 the internet did not exist. The internet as we know it today contains over 50 million websites, all of which are web hosted. Without these websites, what would one search for on the internet? For the internet to have flourished like it has today, websites and more importantly, web hosting, have both been required in order to have transformed the world of communications. And to have created the Internet as we know it in modern times. Web hosting history and at a greater level, the Internet has spawned one of the biggest technological revolutions, arguably more impactful than the inventions of the radio and television.
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