Hosting Explanation

You have a notion that you desire to turn into a web site? Your first move should be to keep your inspiration and find a place for your web page on the Internet so that it will be always visible to the whole world.

Where should you host your web page?

Since the number of web pages on the World Wide Web has increased exponentially over the last few years, the need for website hosting services has also lead to the birth of incalculable hosting service providers. These are firms that offer you disk space for your own website on their hosting servers.

Types of web hosting services

The reach of hosting services varies greatly, so do the necessities of the web page owners. The most basic hosting type is the small-scale file hosting solution, where files can be uploaded using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web-based interface. Lots of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) deliver this service free of cost. Personal web site owners and corporations can also obtain web hosting services from different hosting suppliers. Personal website hosting services are typically either free, ad-financed, or low-priced. Business website hosting services normally cost more, but due to the great competition on the hosting marketplace, a growing number of hosting distributors, like us at Melanesia Web Hosting, deliver business web hosting services at discounted prices and with flexible billing periods.

Kinds of sites and their prerequisites

The cost-free website hosting platform is generally sufficient for personal websites such as portfolios or blogs. A more resource-consuming site, like a social networking website or a corporate website, necessitates a more powerful website hosting platform that provides database support and web application development platforms (including PHP). If you desire to host an e-commerce website, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the hosting packages provider of your choosing. At present, Secure Sockets Layer certificates are provided by the majority of hosting suppliers.

The hosting Control Panel

The hosting vendor usually also provides a hosting Control Panel interface for managing your web content, email accounts, mailbox aliases, domains, DNS records, etc.

Service stability

When choosing a hosting supplier, network uptime is a very vital factor. The accessibility of a web site is assessed on a yearly basis by taking into account the time when the web site is publicly available and viewable on the Internet. Network and service availability guarantees, therefore, should be accurately taken into account when ordering a website hosting package. The best thing to do is re-examine the SLAs and the Terms of Service of the web host of your choosing in advance. Finding online reviews from current customers is also a pretty wise move before you choose to subscribe.

The shared web hosting platform

The most popular and affordably priced type of web hosting service is the shared hosting solution. It offers round-the-clock client support, which is a huge upside for users who do not want to deal with server maintenance procedures, but could also impede users who wish to have more authority over the web server. For such clients, a VPSs or a dedicated servers would be more suitable. Most standard applications and scripts work alright on a shared hosting server. Additionally, the shared web hosting solution costs less than other kinds of web hosting solutions, such as the dedicated hosting, because the web hosting services provider splits the shared hosting server among multiple clients. The shared web hosting solution normally involves usage restrictions that guarantee that the different clients do not interfere with each other and that the web server stays stable.

Managing your shared website hosting account

Shared website hosting packages typically offer a web-based hosting Control Panel GUI, such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, etc. The majority of the big hosting vendors, again like us at Melanesia Web Hosting, make use of their very own personal custom-made hosting Control Panel.

Web server maintenance

With the shared web hosting solution, the web hosting packages provider is responsible for administering the web and mail servers, for installing server software, software updates and patches, and for providing technical support to its clients. The majority of servers are based on the Linux Operating System. The web host's administrators are in charge of maintaining the OS up to date, unless you have a dedicated web server and full server root privileges.