Having a website,
increases by leaps and bounds, the reach as well as the revenue-generating opportunities
of any business in today’s highly competitive global market. As per reports, it
is estimated that almost 95% of all purchases will be through e-commerce by the
year 2040. That is why it won’t be an exaggeration to utter that now’s the time
to bring your business online by hosting your website. Having a website is one
thing but availing the right web hosting service for your specific business
site holds the key to its online success to a significant extent. Let us
explore more on this.
As you might be
aware of, creating a website is just the beginning point of your journey of
bringing your business online to a large number of prospective customers from
every part of the world. The next step, after getting your domain registered, involves
opting for the right web hosting service from a reputed and reliable web
hosting service provider, such as HTS
Hosting, that will ensure that your website remains safely accessible at
high speed all the time and is always up and running seamlessly.
Website hosting
or web hosting is a service that needs to be availed for making any website,
regardless of its size or type, accessible online. This service is made
available through a wide variety of web hosting plans that are offered by
various professional website hosting companies. Every web hosting plan delivers
a certain amount of bandwidth, along with other features, at a certain price to
fulfil the hosting requirement of a particular type of website. The bandwidth requirement
of a simple site will differ from the bandwidth and other specification-related
requirements of the site of a large-sized business. That is why every website hosting
service provider offers different types of web hosting services to cater to the
varying hosting requirements and budgets of different types of websites.
If you are
curious about what web hosting exactly entails, then let us run you through it,
in brief. Every website that avails the service of web hosting gets allotted
web server space, based on its hosting plan. The content of the website gets
stored on the web server in the form of files. When a user looks for a website
on his Web browser, the browser sends request for the data of that site to the
web server on which the files are stored. The server receives the incoming
request and responds to it by locating the content in its storage, processing
it and then delivering it to the web browser over the Internet. At this stage,
the website becomes accessible to the user who was looking for it online. All
this happens within a matter of few seconds. That is why it becomes even more
important to avail professional web hosting services which offer fast page loads
and high uptime, especially for business sites which cannot afford to lose
potential customers.
When you look for
web hosting services to host your website, you will come across many types of
web hosting services. This might confuse you, especially in the absence of
proper information regarding the differences between the various types of hosting
services. We are here to aid you in understanding what each of the main types
of web hosting services entails.
Let us begin with
letting you know the names of the main types of web hosting services, if you
are unaware of it. The service of web hosting can be availed as either Shared
Hosting or Dedicated Hosting or VPS Hosting or Reseller Hosting or WordPress
Hosting. Next, let us touch upon how these hosting services differ from each
other.
Shared Web
Hosting offers hosting service to website owners by providing shared server
space to multiple sites that are hosted on a single server. In it, there is a
single web server which is used for storing the files of many websites. This
results in sharing of server space and resources among all the hosted sites,
causing limited resource availability for the individual sites. It often causes
issues with regard to speed and security, owing to the shared server
environment. Yet it is a popular website hosting solution because it is the
most economical web hosting service. Shared Hosting is available for both Linux
and Windows, in the form of Linux Shared
Hosting plans and Windows Shared Hosting plans. Is it an appropriate
web hosting solution for an enterprise? The answer to it shall be revealed in
the next section. Before that let us elaborate on the other types of hosting
services.
Reseller Hosting
is a web hosting solution that has been designed for those that want to be
resellers of the web hosting services of a professional website hosting
company. There are many perks of becoming the resellers of the hosting services
of companies that have earned the reputation of being the “Best Website Hosting Company” or the “Best Cloud Hosting Company” or the “Best Windows
Hosting Company”. The reseller avails packages from a
reliable web hosting company and designs his own plans and resells the hosting
services at a profit to his own clients, without having to invest in the
infrastructure that is required to run a full-fledged web hosting business.
WordPress Hosting
is yet another type of hosting service but it is meant for WordPress sites as
is indicated by the name itself. WordPress Hosting has been designed to cater
to the specific requirements of WordPress sites, especially with regard to such
sites’ security and performance requirements.
Now we will
describe two other types of hosting services which are very popular. These are
known as Dedicated Hosting and VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting. Dedicated Web
Hosting, along with VPS Hosting, are excellent options as website hosting
solutions for sites that require dedicated server resources as well as enhanced
site speed, performance and augmented security. Both these hosting solutions offer
the flexibility to customize the server of the user of these services.
In Dedicated
Hosting, a single server is provided to a single user for his exclusive use of
the web server. Hence, the web server is able to offer the entire resources of
the server to the hosted site. When a single website’s files are hosted on a
server, there are no other sites competing for the server’s resources. This
results in the site’s performance getting a boost along with its speed and
security getting enhanced. Moreover, as the sole user of the web server, you
have the freedom to customize it at will, depending on your specific hosting
requirements. The same is the case with a Virtual Private Server, which is
offered in VPS Hosting. Let us find out how.
A Virtual Private
Server is able to provide the environment of a dedicated server to each of its
users that coexist in the shared server space of a VPS. This is attained with
the help of Virtualization Technology, which partitions a physical server
virtually into multiple servers that remain isolated from each other and act as
virtual, private servers. Each of these multiple virtual servers is fully
equipped to install its own software and operating system and function as an
independent web server to deliver dedicated server resources to its user. That
is the reason why a VPS is able to provide unrivalled speed, security and
performance. Are these (Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting) your ideal web
hosting solutions as the owner of the site of a large-sized business? We will
find that out in the next section.
Recommended Web Hosting Solutions for Large-sized
Businesses
It goes without
saying that the website of an enterprise or any large-sized business will be
content heavy and will attract site visitors in droves. Such a
resource-intensive website will require dedicated server resources and won’t be
able to run effectively on the shared server resources offered by Shared
Hosting. Hence, you have the answer, that Shared Hosting cannot be recommended
for websites of large-sized businesses.
The specific hosting
requirements of websites of enterprises can only be adequately met by the
dedicated server resources provided by Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting. As
has been mentioned previously, both these types of web hosting solutions can
easily enhance speed, security and performance of websites by providing
dedicated server resources along with the ability to customize the server.
A business site
needs to load fast to offer the best user experience of the site and ensure
site revisits/visits by its existing customers as well as its potential customers.
Additionally, it needs to be secure for carrying out online sales and monetary
transactions related to the sales. Both these requirements are catered to
perfectly by Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting. That is why enterprises should
opt for Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting while searching for the most
appropriate hosting services for their websites.
Before
concluding, it needs to be mentioned that
HTS Hosting excels in delivering various, highly affordable plans for
Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting to its global customers, which include businesses
of all sizes and from various sectors. All the hosting services of HTS are
renowned for providing high uptime, fast speed, robust security, excellent
performance, round-the-clock technical support and much more at the most
affordable prices.
If your business
site needs the best website hosting solution, then one of our Dedicated Hosting
or VPS Hosting plans will surely meet your requirements and deliver an
exceptional hosting experience at budget-friendly prices.
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