What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

As its name signifies, shared hosting is a solution, which involves hosting online content. There are different forms and kinds of web hosting, depending on the purpose and on the functions. Even so, they all involve hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Web. A web host is actually a web server that is connected to the World Wide Web and has its own Internet Protocol address, which enables users to get access to it via the Internet. The web hosting server's architecture and its system resources are determined by the type of web hosting solution it's going to be used for.

What are the various types of web hosting?

Based on the objective, the business website hosting service may be:

File Storage Web Hosting - this form of web hosting permits the customers to keep their files on a certain server. With the regular file hosting solution, the files that are kept may only be accessed by the individual that's availing of the service. This hosting service mainly includes backups of computers , documents, personal files and even other hosting servers. This service may also impose certain limitations in relation to the data storage space and the root-level access. There may also be web traffic limits, but that depends on the particular service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting solution is quite similar to the previous web hosting service form. Nevertheless, unlike the file web hosting solution, the warez web hosting solution is used for disseminating licensed materials without being given the okay to do so by the patent possessor. In brief - it refers to the illegal transmission of files and documents. There are lots of methods for this to be accomplished, but the two essential ways are - through simple HTTP downloading and through P2P connections. The first method involves either some website, or, most typically, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download patented files for free. The second approach entails a P2P connection, making use of the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people transfer files between each other. There are very few website hosting firms that allow such type of web hosting on their web hosting servers, mostly owing to all the judicial problems that it involves. Usually such sites are hosted on private dedicated servers that are registered by 3rd party firms either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Email Web Hosting - this service is applicable with both shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the client's intention. If you would like to have your own private SMTP mail server, then you will require either a private virtual web hosting server or a dedicated web server that offers the level of access needed to accomplish such an assignment. For common mail hosting ends, however, you can avail of a plain shared website hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain. This is not a solution that's widely used, since the web hosting and the electronic mail hosting services are being served by two separate servers, usually owned by different web hosting providers.

Shared Hosting - the most popular and universally used hosting service now. It's used for hosting web site files, whose type is determined by the OS the hosting server is making use of - Linux or Windows. Different types of files necessitate concrete web server Operating Systems, otherwise they won't be displayed appropriately on the Internet. This form of web hosting may have disk storage space and bandwidth limits, server root access and CPU usage limits.

Depending on the mission and on the functions, the customer should select the type of web server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the website hosting distributor that's going to supply it. There are various kinds of servers, based on the configuration and the web hosting solutions that they provide. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server supplies a smaller quantity of system resources, which, of course, is manifested in the price of the service. It can be used for hosting small size and medium size websites, which do not need vast quotas of server storage and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they work on the very same principle as the shared web hosting servers. In spite of that, there are much fewer clients accommodated on the same hosting server. For that reason, each of them will receive a larger quota of the server's resources like RAM, server storage space, web traffic and CPU. Excellent for hosting immense web sites that do not need server root access.

VPS hosting are perfect for medium scale web sites, which do require root access to the hosting server's configuration files. Usually, there are several VPS hosting accounts sharing the same physical machine. In spite of that, each of them is isolated from the other ones and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated machine configured and accessed by you and only you. It ensures a mammoth amount of system resources. It also includes full server root privileges, which makes it the optimal solution for any kind of web portal that needs a website hosting solution.

The sole question that remains is:

Which web hosting corporation should I pick?

As mentioned, there aren't many web hosting providers offering warez hosting solutions because of legal predicaments. Such hosting companies are being closed down almost every month. Therefore, if you want to create such a service, you should do it on your own personal computer. The shared website hosting solution is the most widespread type of hosting service. For that reason, each web hosting provider offers it. Not all of them, though, provide services such as virtual servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated hosting servers. Most of the small scale web hosting firms do not have the means demanded for maintaining those services. You can effortlessly ID such web hosting companies by the sorts of services that they are supplying and by the manner in which they present them to the clients. For instance, certain web hosting companies allow you to kick off with a small scale web hosting account and afterwards upgrade to a more advanced one, if you consider it mandatory to do so. This is quite convenient, since you do not need to transfer web pages between hosting servers and there is no possibility of facing downtime due to all the problems that may occur.

We, at TriQul provide all kinds of services and have the adequate web server resources and staff to assure that their customers will not encounter any troubles when swapping services, which is what a top hosting supplier is in fact all about.