Hosting Explanation

Hosting is a service that hosting suppliers offer so that you can publish your website on the web.

How can people reach your site?

When you build a web site and you would like other individuals to discern it, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a web server. If you attempt to render the site accessible on the Internet by hosting it on your own personal computer, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why web hosting services came into being.

How does hosting work?

Web hosting service providers provide you with space for your web site on their high-powered computers (servers) and ensure constant Internet access. When someone types your web site address (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web server where they can have a glance at the content of your web site.

Hosting varieties

With the growth of online technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into existence to answer the various expectations of website possessors, among them shared website hosting services, private virtual server web hosting services and dedicated web server hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared website hosting is the most popular type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where a single web server is shared among plenty of hosting users who are restricted by the CPU, traffic and storage space quotas that they have been allocated. This form of website hosting is commonly less expensive - you don't need to buy the entire hosting server upfront, as it is shared among numerous hosting account holders, and the web hosting provider can afford to offer much more reasonable prices. It is also much easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-installed with all the necessary software and the web hosting vendor handles all server maintenance procedures and software updates on your behalf.

The downside of the shared hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's system resources with other shared web hosting account owners and if one website becomes really popular it may affect (and slow down) all the other web sites on that hosting server, but the majority of hosting distributors, including us at Digital Network ID, have protection systems in place that hinder that from occurring.

A description of a web hosting service

Because shared hosting is the most commonly used form of web hosting, most hosting service providers and hosting customers simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an extensive competition on the website hosting market, the majority of hosting vendors try to provide affordable prices and bonuses with their web hosting services. We, for example, offer different website hosting plans and two invoicing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you select the yearly billing cycle, you will receive a present - one free domain registration.

VPS plans

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your web site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared web hosting account, a virtual private web hosting server plan is an excellent choice. virtual server web hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS web hosting users, but the server is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured almost like a full-fledged dedicated hosting server. The advantage is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a private virtual web hosting server are not shared. In addition, the virtualization software offers you much more freedom to configure your VPS web server, but it also presupposes a more advanced degree of technical expertise.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the user obtains a whole web server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated web server hosting solution is the most powerful of all website hosting solutions and offers a myriad of configuration possibilities - the dedicated server web hosting users can select the hardware and software specs that will meet their needs. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are two reasons why a dedicated web server is a perfect choice for a resource-requiring corporate web portal, for instance - you will not share the dedicated web hosting server's system resources with anyone else and will gain complete server root access. You will exercise complete authority over the web server, which will allow you to make any server configuration changes that you might need. The drawback of the dedicated server hosting solution is that a higher level of technical competence is required - unless you engage an Information Technology specialist, you will be responsible for administering and configuring the dedicated server. The dedicated web hosting solution is also far more high-priced, because the cost of the dedicated hosting web server isn't shared among any other users.

A website hosting recommendation for novices

If you are just beginning to create your site and are searching for a web hosting solution to commence with, the shared website hosting solution remains the wisest option. If your website outgrows your website hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not necessitate migration of your data, because only the parameters of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your hosting package to a more advanced one at any given time without having to worry about the number of days remaining before expiration. What is more, if you finally reach the most advanced shared website hosting package and still require more system resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it indicates that your website's popularity has expanded!), there always is the option to move to a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated hosting web server without needing to switch web hosting providers.