Internet hosting service is a web hosting service for individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web is a kind of allows. Customers of the web host companies that owned or leased space on a server for use, as well as provide connectivity providing Internet, typically in a data center. Another server in your data center hosting, colocation is called, also from Latin America or in France, can provide data center space and Internet connectivity are known as.

Types of hosting

Internet hosting services can run Web servers. The scope of web hosting services varies greatly.

Small Hosting Services

Basic web page and small scale file hosting, where files, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface that can be uploaded through. The files are usually delivered to the Web "as is" or with minimal processing. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer customers free of charge for this service. Individuals and organizations with alternative service providers can obtain Web page hosting.

Free web hosting service limited services, sometimes supported by advertisements, and often offered by different companies with limited compared to paid hosting.

Single page hosting is generally sufficient for personal web pages. Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or inexpensive. Business web site hosting often depends on the size and type of site is a high expense.

Large hosting services

Many large companies that ISPs permanently emails, files, etc. are not linked to Web sites, need to send. Online ordering and information services and their accessories for the use of the computer as a website host company to be able to provide services.

A complex site a more comprehensive package that database support and application development platforms (e.g.ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Java EE, Perl / Plack, PHP or Ruby on Rails) calls for proposals. Clients or scripts for applications like forums and content management about these features allow to set. In addition, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) websites that are usually used to protect data and the desire to transmit.

1. Shared web hosting service: one's website, some sites on hundreds of websites on the same server as many other sites have been placed. Typically, all domains, such as RAM and CPU, can be part of a common pool of server resources. Basic features available with this type of service can not be flexible in terms of software and updates. Resellers often shared web hosting and web companies often sell reseller hosting accounts are provided to the customers.
2. Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, in different domains, hosting, which is part of any combination of these, depending on the type listed, are associated with as a reseller. Resellers' accounts may vary tremendously in size: they have their own virtual dedicated server to a colocated server can be. Many resellers for their provider's shared hosting plans provide a nearly identical service and provide technical support themselves.
3. Virtual Dedicated Server: also a virtual private server (VPS) Virtual Server, as known, is the only way that the costs directly to the underlying hardware server resources that can be allocated to reflect resources. VPS is often based on the same server resources will be allocated several VPSs relationship, however, is a number of reasons, including the ability to move virtualization, a VPS container between servers, can be used for. Users root access to their own virtual space can be. Customers sometimes strip and server (unmanaged server) or VPS provider customer (Managed Server) servers are responsible for maintaining administrative functions could provide.
4. Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own web server and it (Linux user to root / administrator access for Windows is used) to gain full control; However, there is usually user server. Dedicated hosting is a kind of self-managed or unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for dedicated plans. User server, which means that the customer is responsible for security and maintenance of his own dedicated server is a full administrative access.
5. Managed hosting service: the user on his or her web server user (Windows, Linux / administrator access is denied access to the root) is not allowed full control over it; However, via FTP or other remote management tools allow you to manage your data. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.
6. Co-hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the server Colo, the hosting company is the physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. The most powerful and expensive type of web hosting service. In most cases, colocation providers do little to no support directly for their client's machine, server, Internet access, and offer storage facilities that can provide power to do. Colo in most cases, the customer any hardware upgrades or changes to their own administrators at the data center site is visited. In the past, many colocation hosting providers, even those that held the desktop-style mini-tower cases would accept any system configuration, but the hosts still require rack-mount enclosures and standard system configuration.
7. Cloud Hosting: Hosting packages, load-balanced servers and utility billing customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on a new type of platform allows. When a piece of hardware in a cloud web hosting more reliable option than other computers in the cloud goes down can be compensated. In addition, local power disruptions or even natural disasters, cloud hosting sites are problematic as cloud hosting is decentralized. Cloud hosting providers only user, rather than a flat amount of fees that users expect, or hardware resources by allowing users to charge a fixed cost upfront investment will use to consume.
8. Hosting packages: Better use of resources for multiple servers hosting the same content. A perfect solution for high availability clustered server hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solutions, dedicated to. A cluster database capacity may vary host to act. (Usually web hosts to customers using our hosting packages shared hosting plan as there are many benefits of managing large scale.)
9. Grid hosting: this form of distributed hosting a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.
10. Home server: usually a single machine placed in a private residence, a usually consumer-grade broadband connection can be used to host one or more web sites. These purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs can be. Some ISPs actively sent to TCP port 80 to the user's connection and static IP to try to block home servers by refusing permits to address requests instead. A dynamic DNS service with a common way to get a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL will change the IP address will be issued.

Web hosting service providers offer some sort of hosting:

1. File hosting service: files, web pages, host
2. Image Hosting Service
3. Video hosting service
4. Blog Hosting Service
5. Paste Bin
6. Shopping cart software
7. E-mail hosting service

Host Management

Scripts such as e-mail management and Web servers, as well as other modules and service to install the host application can provide an interface or control panel. Web server hosting account to manage, often a "headless" server does not use a control panel known. Some host some software or services (eg e-commerce, blogs, etc.).

Reliability and uptime

The availability of a website a year in the percentage of publicly accessible website and can be accessed via the Internet is measured by. This is different from a measurement system uptime. Uptime is the only online system shows. Uptime in the event of a network outage to reach as it does not take into account to be able to. [Citation needed] a hosting provider's service level agreement (SLA) of scheduled downtime per year in order to perform maintenance on the system may include a certain amount. Scheduled Downtime is often excluded from the SLA deadlines, and the availability is calculated when needed can be subtracted from the total time. Depending on the wording of SLA, SLA signed the availability of a system goes down, the hosting provider will often provide a partial refund for lost time. Downtime is determined to change from provider to provider, so it is important to read the SLA. [3] All providers continue uptime statistics. [4] Most hosting providers at least 99.9% uptime downtime per month, or 8 hours of downtime per year will guarantee 45 to 43 meters will allow.