Web Hosting Servers What is it and what do you need?
Everybody wants to use the internet as technology advances every day. You must create a website if you own a business, are in education, or work in any other profession. This will allow you to be recognized by everyone who visits the internet.
Web hosting is essential for every website. It is your site's physical location on the Internet. This is an example of how you can grasp the whole story.
If you want to build a house in the real world, you must first purchase a plot of land. After that, you must build it there. That house will have a specific address …?. The same applies to the internet. First, you need to buy a space (physical machine to your office) and then build your house there. This is called your web server.
A webserver owner is not an easy job. It also comes with a lot of responsibility. Just like your house, you are responsible for the renovation, maintenance, and modification. This approach shifts your primary focus from your business to maintaining your web server. It's not a good option. We can rent space to host our website instead of purchasing it. The question is how do you rent the server? There are many web hosting providers that can help. They have low hosting fees and offer a wide range of services. This approach has many benefits. You are less responsible for the server. This allows you to focus on your work, and you can rent space according to your needs so that you can pay for what you need.
What are the different types of Web Hosting?
Most web hosts provide different kinds of hosting so you can serve the different clients with their different needs – whether you want to build a simple personal blog or own a large online business and are in a dire need of an intricate company website. Here are the types of web hosting which are mostly available :
Shared Hosting
VPS Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
Cloud Hosting
1. Shared Hosting: It is the best suitable for the initial level of your website, in this you have shared all the resources like RAM, CPU with the other hosted website. It is the same as if you have a flat in one building with all shared premises and facilities. This approach has its own pros and cons and they are as follows:
Pros :
Low cost, excellent for small online business websites
No need for specific technical knowledge
Pre-configured server options
User-friendly control panel — cPanel/Plex
Maintenance and server administration is taken care for you
Cons:
Little or no control over server configuration
Traffic surges on other websites can slow down your website.
Think like this: you rent a flat in some building and you have a common porch, lift, stairs, parking, garden space, clubhouse. Now imagine all sounds perfect, but suddenly one day your near-flat member has a party and they are using the same lift, corridor, and parking. Now you want to go to the office and have problems going out because of this. When will it happen often then? And one day you throw a party and on the same day, few neighbors also throw the parties. Now it's meshed. Then you think to improvise your life, you take a whole floor for yourself. This is called VPS, the next topic.
2. VPS Hosting: Virtual private server – you are still using a shared server but now you have an entirely separate partition for you on that server. This means you get a dedicated space and a reserved amount of resources and memory. It will understand by this that now you have your entire one floor in that building with the shared resources. This approach is great for medium-sized businesses with a rapidly growing number of websites and traffic.
Pros:
Specific server space
Traffic surges on other websites have no effect on your performance
Root access to the server
Easy scalability and high customizability
Cons:
More expensive than other types of hosting
Technical and server management knowledge is a must
Now imagine you rented a whole floor, but still for your parties parking space is limited, common lift, stairs to get into your floor. And some other floor members also have the same parties on their floor. Now things get so messy, the lift, stairs, and parking lot still have limited space. Now you think why not I rent the whole building, then every resource is owned by me. This is called dedicated hosting, the next topic.
3. Dedicated Hosting: In this, the server is exclusively rented by you and your website is the only one stored on it. Now you can configure your server as you wish, choose the operating system and software you want to use, and set up the whole hosting environment according to your own needs. In general, you can understand in this way that now you are renting the whole building.
Pros:
Full control over server configuration
High reliability and security options
Root access to your server
Cons:
High cost, more oriented towards larger businesses
Technical and server management knowledge is a must
Dedicated host fails, single point of failure.
Cannot increase/decrease the size of resources when needed.
You now have your own house, your own laws, and all the resources you need. You now have more people coming to your parties (or traffic, as it is known in server terms). You are seeing fewer people and you have less building space. This means that you cannot build a new floor or rent out a whole new building to accommodate them. It is also more expensive and will require agreements and time. It is a waste to rent the entire building out for parties. This means that you have the ability to increase or decrease your server space as needed. This is Cloud hosting. If I find someone like that, I don't have to rent the entire building. You only pay for the space and time you use. It sounds promising. Let's learn more about cloud hosting.
4. Cloud Hosting:
As we talked about the features, renting resources as per the use case, and paying for used services only, no more resource wastage.
Pros:
Elasticity: scale up/down resources when needed
High reliability: no single point of failures
Concerned Security
High availability
Fault Tolerance
Pay as per used resources
Cons:
Need to understand networking
Need to manage resources by yourself.
Have knowledge of the security concerns well.
Need experts to manage cost management, as accidentally choose the expensive resources, while it won't be useful for your use case.
In the market there are lots of cloud service providers, some of the popular providers are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Digital Ocean, Linode, Alibaba cloud etc.
While the major concern is elasticities, scale up and down the resources as per the traffic, we can do it by horizontal & vertical scaling in terms of servers. We will discuss it in some other article.
I hope we covered all the aspects of the server hosting process. Please share your feedback:
Web Hosting Servers: What is it & why do you need it?By: Divam Technologies
Title: Web Hosting Servers:
What is it & why do you need it?
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