How Hosting Operates

As its name implies, hosting is a solution, which involves hosting online content. There are various varieties and kinds of hosting, based on the mission and on the objectives. In spite of that, they all are related to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made available through the Web. A host is actually a web hosting service that is connected to the Internet and has its own IP address, which allows people to access it via the Web. The server's architecture and its system resources are subject to the type of hosting service it's going to be used for.

What are the various types of web hosting?

Depending on the function, the web hosting service may be:

File Storage Hosting - this type of web hosting allows the customers to accommodate their files on a certain hosting server. With the classic file storage hosting service, the files that are stored may only be accessed by the person that's using the service. This hosting service usually includes backups of computers , documents, personal files and even other hosting servers. This solution may also include certain limits in relation to the web storage and the root access. There may also be bandwidth limits, but that depends on the particular hosting service provider.

Warez Web Hosting - the so-called warez web hosting service is comparable with the previous web hosting service type. Nevertheless, in contrast with the file storage web hosting service, the warez hosting solution is used for circulating proprietary content without the permission of the copyright bearer. To put it briefly - it appertains to the unlawful distribution of files and docs. There are multiple methods for this to be completed, but the two essential ways are - via plain Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through peer-to-peer connections. The first approach involves either a given website, or, most commonly, simply a directory on a hosting server that's been made available for everybody to access it and thereby download proprietary files free of cost. The second method entails a P2P connection, availing of the so-called Torrent servers, through which people share files between each other. There are very few web hosting distributors that permit that form of web hosting on their web servers, mainly owing to all the judicial entanglements that it presupposes. Usually such web sites are hosted on private dedicated hosting servers that are registered by third-party enterprises either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Electronic Mail Hosting - this service is utilized with both shared hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the customer's wish. If you wish to set up your very own private SMTP server, then you will need either a VPS hosting server or a dedicated web hosting server that provides the level of access needed to complete such a task. For conventional mail hosting purposes, though, you can avail of a normal shared web hosting account, to which you can point the mail exchanger records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's widely popular, because the website hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by two separate web servers, often owned by different providers.

Hosting - the most widely spread and extensively used hosting service as of now. It's used for hosting web site files, whose kind is dependent on the Operating System the hosting server is utilizing - Linux or Windows. Different sorts of files request different server OSs, otherwise they won't be shown correctly on the Internet. This type of hosting may have storage space and traffic restrictions, root access and CPU usage restrictions.

Depending on the mission and on the objectives, the customer should choose the kind of web server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the web hosting supplier that's going to furnish it. There are various types of servers, depending on the specifications and the web hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Hosting Server - a shared web server provides a smaller quantity of resources, which, of course, reflects on the cost of the service. It can be used for hosting small size and middle sized online portals, which do not need immense quantities of disk storage space and bandwidth.

Semi-dedicated Packages - they function on the same principle as the shared web servers. Still, there are much fewer users sharing the same server. Therefore, each of them will obtain a bigger share of the hosting server's resources like RAM, data storage, web traffic and CPU. Ideal for hosting immense web sites that do not require full root privileges.

VPS are perfect for medium sites, which do demand root access to the server's config files. Usually, there are a bunch of private virtual server web hosting accounts located on the same physical server. Still, each of them is insulated from the rest and has its own Operating System.

Dedicated Package - a fully dedicated physical server configured and accessed by you and solely you. It guarantees an enormous amount of system resources. It also provides complete server root access, which makes it the optimal solution for any sort of web site that necessitates a web hosting solution.

The sole question that's left is:

Which web hosting corporation should I choose?

As already stated, there aren't many providers offering warez hosting services due to legal predicaments. Such providers are being shut down practically every month. Therefore, if you would like to start such a service, you should do it on your own computer. The shared web hosting service is the most widespread kind of web hosting service. Hence, each and every hosting distributor offers it. Not all of them, though, provide services such as VPSs, Semi-dedicated Packages and dedicated servers. Most of the smaller website hosting distributors do not have the resources required for maintaining those services. You can quickly ID such web hosting companies by the kinds of services that they are making available and by the way that they present them to the clientele. For example, certain hosts allow you to start with a low-end web hosting plan and then move to a more powerful one, if you find it necessary to do so. This is very convenient, because you do not need to migrate web portals between servers and there is no risk of experiencing service disturbances because of all the problems that may take place.

We, at OKCISP (OKC's Internet Space Provider) provide all types of solutions and possess the required web hosting server resources and personnel to assure that their clients will not face any complications when changing services, which is what a top hosting company is in fact all about.