What is Hosting?

As its name indicates, hosting is a solution, which entails hosting online content. There are different forms and types of web hosting, depending on the mission and on the objectives. Even so, they all involve hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible through the Internet. A host is actually a hosting server that is linked to the Web and has its own personal Internet Protocol address, which allows people to have access to it through the World Wide Web. The web server's configuration and its resources are dependent on the type of hosting service it will be utilized for.

What are the various types of web hosting?

Depending on the application, the professional hosting service may be:

File Storage Hosting - this form of hosting permits the clients to deposit their files on a certain server. With the ordinary file storage web hosting service, the files that are stashed may only be accessed by the customer that's using the service. This hosting solution mainly concerns backups of PCs , documents, private files and even other hosting servers. This service may also have certain limitations in terms of the data space and the root-level access. There may also be bandwidth quota limitations, but that is dependent on the given service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is quite similar to the previous hosting service type. In spite of that, unlike the file storage hosting solution, the warez hosting solution is used for distributing copyrighted content without the permission of the patent owner. To cut a long story short - it involves the illegitimate distribution of files and materials. There are lots of approaches for this to be attained, but the two principal approaches are - through plain Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through P2P connections. The first way entails either a specific web portal, or, most typically, simply a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thus download copyrighted content for free. The second way entails a P2P connection, using the so-called Torrent web servers, through which people transmit files between each other. There aren't many web hosting firms that permit such form of hosting on their hosting servers, chiefly because of all the judicial problems that it involves. Typically such web portals are hosted on personal dedicated servers that are registered by third-party enterprises either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Mail Hosting - this service is utilized with both shared web hosting and dedicated servers, based on the customer's intention. If you would like to establish your very own personal SMTP email server, then you will require either a VPS web server or a dedicated web hosting server that provides the level of access needed to perform such an assignment. For common e-mail web hosting purposes, however, you can avail of a simple shared hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain. This is not a service that's widely popular, because the web hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by two different web servers, often owned by separate web hosts.

Hosting - the most popular and regularly used hosting service these days. It's used for hosting site files, whose kind is dependent on the OS the server is running - Linux or Windows. Different types of files request different web hosting server OSs, otherwise they won't be exhibited correctly on the World Wide Web. This type of hosting may involve data space and bandwidth restrictions, root-level access and central processing unit usage restrictions.

Based on the goals and on the objectives, the user should select the sort of web hosting server that he requires for his project, and, of course, the hosting firm that's going to supply it. There are different kinds of web hosting servers, depending on the specifications and the hosting services that they provide. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared hosting server offers a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, reflects on the price of the service. It can be used for hosting small and medium scale websites, which do not require large quotas of disk storage space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they work on the same principle as the shared hosting servers. Even so, there are much less customers accommodated on the same web hosting server. That is why, each of them will get a larger share of the web hosting server's resources like RAM, disk space, web traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting heavy web sites that do not demand complete root-level access.

VPS are ideal for medium sized web sites, which do need root-level access to the web hosting server's config files. Traditionally, there are a bunch of private virtual web hosting server accounts placed on the same machine. Even so, each of them is independent from the rest and runs its own OS.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated web hosting server set up and accessed by you and only you. It ensures a large amount of resources. It also includes full root access, which renders it an ideal environment for any sort of online portal that necessitates a website hosting solution.

The only question that remains is:

Which hosting distributor should I choose?

As mentioned, there are just a few companies offering warez hosting services due to judicial troubles. Such hosts are being closed down practically every month. Because of that, if you would like to offer such a service, you should do it on your very own personal computer. The shared web hosting solution is the most widespread type of web hosting service. For that reason, every hosting vendor provides it. Not all of them, though, provide services such as virtual private hosting servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated web servers. Most of the small sized web hosting companies do not have the resources demanded for offering those solutions. You can effortlessly ID such hosts by the types of services that they are making available and by the way that they introduce them to the customers. For instance, some web hosting providers allow you to commence with a small sized web hosting plan and then upgrade to a bigger one, if you consider it compulsory to do so. This is very convenient, since you do not have to migrate sites between web servers and there is no chance of facing service interruptions due to all the predicaments that may crop up.

We, at Geldbach Solutions GmbH provide all types of solutions and possess the needed server resources and personnel to guarantee that their clients will not come across any problems when swapping services, which is what a top hosting company is actually all about.