What is Web Hosting?
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If you ever thought having website or blog, i assume you heard web hosting once. Sometimes web hosting can be confusing for beginners. I am going to get deep into web hosting subject and help you about confusions.
Web Hosting
Web hosting basically a hosting service for your web sites and your web sites folders. After activation of your service, hosting provider gives you access to control panel of your hosting service and you can arrange many things with that access. So after purchasing a web hosting service that means you are renting a space of that server.
With the information above we can say that hosting service is a computer which has high speed internet and web server ability. That web hosting service belongs to hosting provider company. They keep it safe and up-to-date for customers. So customers can upload folders into web hosting and publish their website.
Also as i said that you can arrange many things by hosting control panel. Those are creating email accounts and FTP accounts, SSL certificate installation, uploading folders etc… Speaking of FTP and SSL certificate, i will mention them below…
After explanation of web hosting, I can give you information about web hosting types,…
Types of Web Hosting Services
As i said, choosing web hosting can be complicated for beginners. It has a lot of service types and at the beginning that may scare you… But the reality is not like that. For example, all types of web hosting services basically work in the same way. The purpose of them is publishing web sites. I will mention types of web hosting services below and make it clear for you…
Types of Web Hosting Services:
- Shared Linux Web Hosting
- Shared Windows Web Hosting
- Virtual Private Server (VPS)
- Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS)
- WordPress Hosting
- E-commerce Hosting
Let’s explain them one by one
Shared Linux Web Hosting
Linux is a free, open source and very famous operation system around the world. It can be customised easily and transformable for different requirements…
Shared Linux web hosting generally has Centos operating system which is best option for web hosting. Also the database system is MySQL or MariaDB. With Shared Linux web hosting you can run PHP web sites, CMS (content management systems) like WordPress, Opencart or Prestashop…
Shared Windows Web Hosting
After explaining shared Linux web hosting, now i am going to talk about shared Windows web hosting…
As you can guess, shared Windows web hosting is based on Windows operation system and it has MsSQL database system. You can run .NET framework, .NET Core applications in shared Windows Web Hosting…
Virtual Private Server(VPS)
Virtual private server is way too different than shared hosting service. You own the whole server with this service and you have ROOT access. Virtual private server is a part of physical server. Server administrators use virtualization to create virtual private servers. Also virtual private servers can customise with your needs.
The resources of virtual private server are shared. That means your unused resources can be used by another user. Which is not good for your system because with that usage your system can be slower…
Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS)
Virtual dedicated server is similar to virtual private server. But there are some differences.
First of all, virtual dedicated server is virtualized of physical server. It has high virtualization technology. The server belongs to you completely and you can customise it in your needs. Also you have root access for your server. Until now it looks pretty similar to virtual private server.
But system resources of virtual dedicated server completly belongs to you. Even whether you don’t use them. That makes it different than virtual private server… With VDS server your services always work in high performance.
WordPress Hosting
And we just came our last title of article. WordPress hosting service is similar to shared hosting services. Basically it works the same like them but it has a few differences. Those differences are about operation system, web server and database system.
For Wordpres hosting service they usually use Centos operation system with LiteSpeed web server system. Speaking of LiteSpeed i should give you some information to make you understand. LiteSpeed web server is a licenced web server. It is new, up-to-date and high performance web server. It is 6 times faster than Apache(traditional web server) and it helps your web site works faster than usual.
And speaking of database, it is very important service for WordPress hosting. Because WordPress keeps and calls every components from database. System administrators usually use MariaDB database for WordPress hosting service. MariaDB has high performance with WordPress web sites.
Bonus
I mentioned FTP and SSL sertificate at the beginning of the article. I would like to explain them for you…
What is FTP?
File Transfer Protocol (FTP), helps you transferring files into your web hosting service. it was released in 1971 by Abhay Bhushan and it made into today’s shape in 1985. Default port number is 21…
What is SSL Certificate?
Secure socket layer (SSL) certificate is installed through your control panel and that shows web site secure to search engines and visitors. SSL certificate can protects datas between your web site and visitors. Also that provides trusts to your web site visitors and search engines…
I have tried to explain types of web hosting services basically in this article. I hope that helps you to understand the services… Please free to make a comment for your further questions.
Have a nice day…