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What is Web Hosting? Hosting Beginners Guide
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You search on google for information, buy/sell
products online and read news on websites all the
time. But, you may not know exactly what is a
website and what is web hosting, and how website
stuff works? Knowing about a website, a domain
name, web hosting services and making websites
live can be intimidating and confusing if you are
not related to the web hosting industry.
If thats the case for you theres no need for
concern! You have come to right place.
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• According Wikipedia, web hosting is defined as
• "A web hosting service is a type of Internet
  hosting service that allows individuals and
  organizations to make their website accessible
  via the World Wide Web."
• Their definition is solid, in my opinion, but
  could explain easily.
• Here are the key concepts you will learn in this
  guide.
• What a website really is?
• Types of websites?
• What is web hosting?
• What is a domain name?
• Different types of web hosting?
• Are you ready to dive in?
• Lets get started!
• What is a website?
• Basically, a website is a collection of documents
  known as web pages. Each web page represents a
  certain topic or product details.
• A web page may contain information, images,
  audio, video and others.
• Having a website is a really cool to express
  yourself, share and learn new stuff in this
  information age. What do you think?
• I highly recommend you to create a website just
  for you or your business.

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What is the purpose of a website? You can build a
website for any purpose. A website can be used
for providing personal information, a blog, a
business website, a government website, an
eCommerce website or even non-profit websites
like http//wikipedia.org If you are running a
business website it may have different pages like
home, services, products and business contacts.
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Types of websites? There are two broad categories
of websites. Static websites and dynamic
websites. Static websites Static websites
usually display same information to all visitors.
The main technologies behind building static
websites are HTML, CSS, and images. Mostly, these
websites are non-interactive. Static websites
usually maintain same information, consistently
over the period of time. Want to know oldest
unchanged pages since 1994? Here you go!
Unchanged from 1994!! Really static
content. http//classics.mit.edu/ http//www.warne
rbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm But, we
highly recommend you to build websites with
dynamic content. Dynamic websites Google.co.in,
Microsoft.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, and
Amazon.in are dynamic or interactive websites.
The data on these websites updated all the time.
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Dynamic or interactive websites uses Content
Management Systems ( CMS) to build websites. Most
popular content management systems are
WordPress.org, Joomla.com, Drupal.com and
etc., Find list of content management systems
from https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content
_management_systems What is Web
Hosting? Essentially, your website pages are
stored on a web server. Web servers are managed
by web hosting companies like FastWebHost Now,
your web pages are ready to publish on web
servers so that anyone can see your business or
personal website from anywhere and at any
time. Whenever you access any website or pages
from your browser, the request goes to the
location where your website hosted, then
downloads the copies of pages to your
browser. The process of selecting web hosting
provider and publishing/hosting a website on
servers is called a website hosting service.
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What is a domain name?
Simply, domain names are invented to simplify
information access on the Internet. Lets see how
that works. Assume, you assigned a number (IP
Address) to every computer or internet device on
the planet, how do you remember each device
number and access that computer? Its impossible
to remember millions of numbers (IP Address) for
human beings, Isnt it? Thats where domain names
fit in. You select and assign a unique name to
each device through Domain Naming System ( DNS)
and map domain names to numbers ( IP addresses ).
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Ill explain technical details of domain names in
another article. Now, you need to get unique
domain names to your website. You can register
domain names like mydomain.com, myhobbies.net or
mybusiness.net. Domain names are organised into
different extensions depends on type of business
you run. Most common domain extensions are .COM,
.NET, .ORG, .GOV, .EDU and country level
extensions like .in, .co.uk and
com.au. The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) manages domain names
and different extensions.
Types of web hosting There are different types
hosting services provided by web hosting
companies all over the world. Shared Web
Hosting ?VPS Hosting Dedicated Server Hosting I
have created a mind map using a free
tool bubbl.us , take a look at this picture for
an overview.
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So, lets take a look at above web hosting
categories.
Shared Web Hosting
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Shared web hosting service is the most basic type
of hosting and easy to start your
website. Usually, it suits well for simple
websites like personal sites, hobby sites, blogs,
small business websites. Shared web hosting is
affordable because web server resources will be
shared across multiple websites. If you are
interested, learn more on shared hosting, head
over to another article Should you choose shared
hosting
VPS Hosting
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VPS Hosting is bit more complex type of web
hosting. VPS servers are built on virtualization
technologies like KVM and OpenVZ. Ideally, VPS
Hosting suites well for Small to Medium
businesses, Web Developers, web designers and
server administrators. VPS Hosting is bit
costlier due to the fact that you get more
resources and power to your websites. VPS Hosting
can handle more traffic or visitors to your
websites comfortably. So, many choose this based
on their website performance requirements. Also,
VPS hosting comes with all bells and whistles
like having a feeling of own server, control on
configuration, websites and its
security. Dedicated Server Hosting
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Dedicated server hosting is the ultimate of the
pack. You get full control and power with your
own server. No one else shares your server
resources except you. Its you define server
configuration, administration, and services on
the server. You can host unlimited websites on
your dedicated server. Many small to medium
enterprises prefer dedicated server who has
resources to manage the server. Dedicated server
enhances your website performance and can easily
handle few hundred thousands of
requests. Dedicated server hosting costs
anywhere between 100 -500 per month depends on
server hardware configuration and your
requirements. Pro tip If you want to publish
your own website, you'll need to sign up for a
web hosting service.  Just make sure the Web
host you choose offers high-quality servers,
latest web technologies, website security, 24/7
technical support and ensures little or no
downtime. Hope you enjoy reading web hosting our
guide.
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