Web Hosting As A Long Term Investment
By Rebecca Hubbard, Mon Dec 26th
Web as a Long Term Investment
Web is basically a service for web users who may be, butnot limited to, individuals or companies with web sites forstoring any information or data that can be accessed through theWeb. Web companies provide space on their web serversand Internet connectivity for their clients.
In a nutshell, web means making web sites accessible viathe Internet. Access could mean through File Transfer Protocolor by any Web interface.
There are several types of web depending on the methodof and the targeted clients.
Free Web Hosting. Some web companies offer you to haveyour web site accessible in the Web at no charge at all. Inreturn, they will be having their advertisements popping-up oradded to your web site. The services you get for free haveusually limited bandwidths, disk space, traffic limits andlimited web development tools. For up and coming web developersthis is a great way to have their web sites accessible via theweb.
Image Web Hosting. Some web companies prefer having animage gallery or pictures depot. Image Web is usuallyfree but you have to become an active member of the web host'ssite.
Shared Web hosting. This service is also usually for free. Theirmethod of usually only allows a few web pages to beuploaded for a web site, (Ex. Resume Web Site). Diskspace for the entire server is limited and so are the otherresources.
Clustered Web Hosting. Unlike Shared Web where theresources are common for all web sites, this type of hostinguses Clustering Technology. This technology offers strictsecurity, it has a load balancing system and all the othernecessary web development tools that is replicated for each website. Clustered Web may involve several physical serversworking together and is also very open for disk space upgradesor memory upgrades.
Reseller Web Hosting. This method is actually a schemefor entrepreneurs to market Web for reselling by otherentrepreneurs. You practically buy a large chunk of space intheir servers with all the web development tools and can dividethat chunk for you to be able to create space to other web sites.
Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting. This service is likeclustered Web Hosting. The difference is that the web sites thatare hosted are all in one physical server.
Dedicated Web Hosting. This type of requires
