When you browse
the World Wide Web, you will come across all types of websites, ranging from
blogs to e-commerce sites to corporate sites to portfolio websites to online
brochures, news or magazines to educational sites to online community forums
and whatnot! Each of these these online platforms, without any exception, and
regardless of its type, needs to avail the service of website hosting in order
for it to be accessible to online site visitors. Since all these are different
types of sites, it goes without saying that their hosting requirements are
going to be quite different from each other.
In this blog we will try to bring to light the need for different types of website hosting solutions with regard to different types of sites. First, let us start with the basics.
Web
Hosting
Those that have a
website which is accessible online, for sure know about the service of website
hosting and understand the importance of availing an efficient web hosting
solution from a reliable web hosting service provider for the seamless online
availability of their sites. Those that are unaware of this service, let us
introduce you to the world of website hosting.
Website hosting
or web hosting is an essential service that every website owner needs to avail
to get his/her site accessible to online site visitors. This service can be
availed by selecting an appropriate plan from the wide range of website hosting
plans that most web hosting service providers offer, to cater to the varying
hosting requirements and budgets of those seeking this service. Web hosting
service providers are companies that have the necessary infrastructure in place
to provide the service of web hosting. The most popular web hosting companies,
such as HTS Hosting, usually get
referred to as the best Website Hosting
Company or as the best Cloud
Hosting Company or as the best Windows Hosting
Company, etc.
Websites are made
of files, which need to be retrieved by the web browsers of site visitors, in
order for these sites to be accessible. To facilitate this, these files that
contain the content of the sites, are stored on the web servers of website
hosting companies. It is from these web servers that the stored files of
websites are retrieved by the web browsers that are looking for these websites.
To elaborate on
it, first the web browser of a site visitor initiates communication with the
web server of the service provider that has the site’s files stored on it. The
server receives this incoming request and responds to it by locating the
corresponding files in its storage. These files are then processed, as per the
incoming request of the web browser. The final step involves delivering these
files, over the Internet, to that web browser which had initiated the
communication with the web server. Once the same web browser receives the
necessary files, the site becomes accessible to the site visitor on his
Internet-connected device.
It is evident
that in the absence of this service and the entire process of web hosting, a
website cannot be accessed by site visitors. Moreover, this service needs to be
available uninterruptedly for the seamless availability of websites. Any interruption
in the service will render a hosted site inaccessible. There are some more
features, such as fast speed, secure hosting, data backup facility,
round-the-clock technical support, etc. which need to be provided by every web
hosting service provider to ensure that sites load quickly and securely and
remain seamlessly accessible to offer the best hosting experience. Any trusted web hosting company, such as HTS Hosting, excels at delivering top-class service as well as peak
performance of the hosted sites owing to its extensive experience in the field
of website hosting and having the required technical expertise and the best
infrastructure.
HTS Hosting,
honouring its commitment to offer the highest standard of web hosting services,
has gone one step further than most of the web hosting companies, by providing
service straight from its modern, fully-equipped data centre that houses
powerfully configured web servers to boost the performance of your site.
If you are
wondering how the service of website hosting caters to the hosting requirements
of all the different types of websites, such as blogs, corporate sites,
e-commerce sites, etc., then the answer to this is being explained next.
Why
and How Web Hosting Solutions Differ?
The purpose of
website hosting is to ensure the seamless online availability of websites that
avail this service. The websites which avail this service are of different
types and hence require different types of hosting solutions to fulfil their
hosting needs effectively. Moreover, those looking to avail website hosting
have different budgets as well. That is why providing a single type of web
hosting solution would not be able to meet the different types of hosting
requirements of various websites. This answers the “why” with regard to the
need for different types of hosting solutions. Now let us focus on the “how”
part that how web hosting solutions differ from each other but before that let
us describe the various types of web hosting services.
The types of website
hosting services are mainly Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, VPS Hosting,
Reseller Hosting and WordPress Hosting. All the professional website hosting
companies, such as HTS Hosting, offer all of these types of web hosting
services for the convenience of their ever-growing global clientele that have
different types of hosting requirements. Let us provide more information on
each of these types of web hosting solutions to make the differences between
them clear.
The most basic
and the most economical website hosting solution is Shared Hosting. It is
usually recommended for sites that are not resource-intensive, for those with
less budget for availing website hosting and for sites that do not require
dedicated server resources for their effective functioning. It is capable of
catering to the hosting requirements of sites that do not have strict
requirements in terms of speed, security and site performance. Some such sites
are blogging sites, simple sites, sites that do not get a lot of traffic,
websites of small to medium-sized companies, etc.
As can be well
understood from the types of sites that usually avail this type of web hosting,
it is not meant for resource-intensive sites. That is because in shared
hosting, a single web server is used to host the files of multiple sites. This
causes the server resources, along with the server space, to get shared among
these sites, which results in limited availability of server resources for the
hosted sites and often impacts adversely site speed and leads to concerns over
security. However, its popularity as a web hosting service is due to the fact that
it offers the most economical solution for hosting websites, which can be
attributed to the shared server environment provided in it. So, this is one of
the types of web hosting solutions which is meant for catering to certain
specific hosting requirements and for ensuring that web hosting can be availed
by even those that have very less budget for this purpose. For example, the
shared web hosting plans of HTS Hosting start at prices as low as Rs.31/month and come along with free
SSL certificates to strengthen the security aspect of this type of
hosting. The service of HTS Hosting provides fast and safe hosting despite the
shared hosting environment of the server.
The other two
types of web hosting services, which are totally opposite of shared hosting,
are Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting. The need for these services can be
understood from the limitations that are integral to the service of shared
hosting, which makes it a necessity to have such web hosting solutions that can
offer dedicated server resources to the hosted sites.
As mentioned
earlier, different types of websites need different types of hosting solutions
for their optimum functioning. Sites that require dedicated server resources
and have strict need for security and speed, sites of large-size organizations,
e-commerce sites, as well as sites that get a lot of web traffic are some of
the typical examples of websites that benefit from availing space on dedicated
servers and VPS (Virtual Private Servers). That is because all these types of
sites are resource-intensive and need dedicated server resources to deliver
peak performance.
Both, dedicated
servers and Virtual Private Servers, are able to offer dedicated server
resources to the hosted site/sites in order to cater to their requirements for
enhanced speed, security and performance. A dedicated server accomplishes this
by hosting a single site on a single server, whereas a VPS does the same
through Virtualization Technology which enables multiple sites to be hosted on
a single server that has been virtually segmented into multiple, isolated,
private servers which can function independently and can use their own software
and operating systems. Availing a dedicated server or a VPS proves to be
costlier than availing space on a shared server but the benefit is that
dedicated hosting and VPS hosting score over shared hosting by offering
dedicated server resources and by ensuring augmented site speed, performance
and security.
Different sites
have different hosting requirements and hence require different hosting
solutions. Two such specific hosting solutions are Reseller hosting and
WordPress hosting. Reseller hosting is a service that lets resellers of web
hosting carry on their business and earn profits from it by reselling the
availed web hosting services from reputed and professional service providers,
such as HTS Hosting, and then selling these services to their own clients. On
the other hand, the service of WordPress hosting has been designed to cater to
the specific hosting requirements of WordPress sites, as it takes into account
the security and performance requirements of WordPress sites to ensure the best
hosting for such sites.
Conclusion:
The information
provided here is meant to ensure that the reader understands the need for
various types of hosting solutions that are made available by web hosting
service providers. Each type of hosting solution, such as shared hosting,
dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, reseller hosting and WordPress hosting, has
been designed for the purpose of catering perfectly to a set of hosting
requirements. The availability of various types of hosting solutions ensures
that different websites with different hosting requirements have the choice to
select the most appropriate service for their site’s optimal functioning.
Regardless of the type of web hosting that has been availed, it needs to be
ensured that the chosen plan offers high uptime, SSD, fast speed, user-friendly
control panel, robust security, data backup service, and 24*7 technical
support. All these features and much more are part of the wide range of hosting
services provided by HTS Hosting to ensure the seamless performance of the
hosted sites of its global clients, owning websites ranging from e-commerce
sites, to blogs to sites of big businesses, etc.
HTS Hosting
offers every type of web hosting solution and phenomenal service at the most
affordable prices to meet the different hosting requirements of different types
of sites and boost their performance.
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