Web Hosting Guide For Beginner
By SY Ho, Mon Dec 26th
First and foremost, for non-IT savvy, it might be a little toughfor them to comprehend the meaning of web hosting. I believe ifyou search it on any search engine, of course there will beanswer and explanation for them. But, how far do you reallyunderstand? Honestly, when I first get to know this term fewyears back, I had problem understanding myself. Then, I foundone simple explanation that might be easy for people tounderstand. So, today, if anyone were to ask me what is "webhosting", i'd explain as follows...
Imagine you are homeless and you want to rent a room or buy ahouse. In order to get a shelter for yourself, you need a room.So, you imagine yourself as the website and the room as thehosting that you need to place yourself in. That means yourwebsite need a web hosting. Then, that's the time you startfinding yourself a web provider. Here, web hostingprovider would be the house owner who rents you the room. So, inorder for your website to be available and browsed by Internetusers, you need to make sure your website is hosted in a webserver provided by a web provider.
So, when you finally understand what web is, next willbe the time to find out more about the different types of webhosting available. You have shared hosting, dedicated hosting,reseller hosting, VPS hosting, and colocation hosting. You nameit, the Internet has it! So many to remember anddifferentiate..so, let's get the ball rolling with...
Shared Hosting Shared means that a web server hasits resources shared by many other websites. Or you can put itas, in a house, there are many tenants. Usually small or normale-commerce businesses will choose this type of hosting. Websiteswith high traffic might not be able to choose this type ofhosting due to insufficient webspace.
Dedicated Hosting Dedicated refers to inwhich you rent a server from your web provider and willbe placed at your web provider's datacentre. They willprovide software installation and connection to Internet. Thiswill indicates that the website owner has control over theserver as they don't share it with other websites. In short,dedicated is where only 1 user hosted on the servermachine and have a full privilege over the server to manage itby themself. The server machine will be still belongs to the webhosting provider.
Colocation Hosting Well, this has the featureswhich are almost the same as dedicated EXCEPT that youprovide your own server and web provider just help youto plug it into their datacentre. You need to install ownsoftware and hardwares. Everything is DIY.
Reseller Hosting Reseller is a where theaccount owner has the priviledge to allocate
