Web Hosting Guide For Beginner!
First and foremost, for non-IT savvy, it might be a little tough for them to comprehend the meaning of web hosting. I believe if you search it on any search engine, of course there will be answer and explanation for them. But, how far do you really understand?
Honestly, when I rst get to know this term few years back, I had problem understanding myself. Then, I found one simple explanation that might be easy for people to understand. So, today, if anyone were to ask me what is “web hosting”, i’d explain as follows…
Imagine you are homeless and you want to rent a room or buy a house. In order to get a shelter for yourself, you need a room. So, you imagine yourself as the website and the room as the hosting that you need to place yourself in. That means your website need a web hosting. Then, that’s the time you start nding yourself a web hosting provider. Here, web hosting provider would be the house owner who rents you the room.
So, in order for your website to be available and browsed by Internet users, you need to make sure your website is hosted in a web server provided by a web hosting provider.So, when you nally understand what web hosting is, next will be the time to nd out more about the di erent types of web hosting available. You have shared hosting, dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, and colocation hosting. You name it, the Internet has it! So many to remember and di erentiate. So, let’s get the ball rolling with…
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting means that a web server has its resources shared by many
other websites. Or you can put it as, in a house, there are many tenants.
Usually small or normal e-commerce businesses will choose this type of
hosting. Websites with high tra c might not be able to choose this type of
hosting due to insu cient webspace.
Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting refers to hosting in which you rent a server from your web
hosting provider and will be placed at your web hosting provider’s datacentre.
They will provide software installation and connection to Internet. This
will indicates that the website owner has control over the server as they don’t
share it with other websites. In short, dedicated hosting is where only 1 user
hosted on the server machine and have a full privilege over the server to
manage it by themself. The server machine will be still belongs to the web
hosting provider.
Co-location Hosting
Well, this hosting has the features which are almost the same as dedicated
hosting EXCEPT that you provide your own server and web hosting provider
just help you to plug it into their datacentre. You need to install own software
and hardwares. Everything is DIY.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller Hosting is a hosting where the account owner has the priviledge to
allocate the webspace and bandwidth access and resell them to his clients.
This shows that reseller hosts act like a middleman and is usually not responsible for any software or hardware intallation. They only buy webspace and resell to clients.
VPS Hosting
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. It is almost the same as dedicated server.
Hence, it’s sometimes called Virtual Dedicated Server. Generally, it means that the account owner has the feeling as though his owns a dedicated server. In real sense, it’s actually separating a physical server into several independent hosting spaces or VPS-es, each isolated from the other. This will allow you to create and manage multiple sites and domains and take full control of your VPS with root/administrator access which allows you to access the virtual hard disk, RAM and to reboot your private server independently from other VPS-es.
Domain Name
After we are done with the di erent types of hosting, there is something else
which I want to touch on. It is none other than the “domain name”. So, ever
wonder what is domain name? Wow, sounds technical? Not really actually.
Don’t be scared. Last time, when I saw the words domain name, it freaked me
out too. Now, when I got used to it, it’s not that nerve-wracking after all.
So, domain name is just the normal web address or url (Uniform Resource
Locator) you type in the “address” area when you open a browser. Examples
of domain name are “AryanIct.com”. You know? Just the normal web
address. Well, since it’s a web address, it’s a unique name. Hence, there will be
no other same domain name. In fact, domain name is actually corresponding with numeric IP address. So, every domain name will have its numeric IP address. For example, the IP address for AryanIct.com is 174.122.47.225
When you see AryanIct.com, ever wonder “.com” stands for what? It actually stands for commercial. Whenever you see .com, .org, .net or others which ends after the nal dot or period (.) of a url, it is known as top-level domain. It actually tells you what kind of website it is, indirectly. And the commonly used domain name extension nowadays will be .org, .net, .com.
However, there are a lot of new domain extension up for grab lately such as .aero, .info, .museum, and .name.
Next in the list that I shall explain is, Country Level Domain Name. Examples of country level domain name is AryanIct.com.af. It has “.af” as its country code top-level domain (ccTLD). .af here represents the country “Afghanistan”. Of course, different country will have di erent ccTLD. For example, .pk stands for Pakistan, .in for India, .jp stands for Japan, .au for Australia, .ca for Canada.
There are more to learn in order to excel in web hosting industry. Hopefully this simple guide will help all those novice out there. There are other things you need to know as well. But, it will be in our next article. Cheers!
Honestly, when I rst get to know this term few years back, I had problem understanding myself. Then, I found one simple explanation that might be easy for people to understand. So, today, if anyone were to ask me what is “web hosting”, i’d explain as follows…
Imagine you are homeless and you want to rent a room or buy a house. In order to get a shelter for yourself, you need a room. So, you imagine yourself as the website and the room as the hosting that you need to place yourself in. That means your website need a web hosting. Then, that’s the time you start nding yourself a web hosting provider. Here, web hosting provider would be the house owner who rents you the room.
So, in order for your website to be available and browsed by Internet users, you need to make sure your website is hosted in a web server provided by a web hosting provider.So, when you nally understand what web hosting is, next will be the time to nd out more about the di erent types of web hosting available. You have shared hosting, dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, and colocation hosting. You name it, the Internet has it! So many to remember and di erentiate. So, let’s get the ball rolling with…
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting means that a web server has its resources shared by many
other websites. Or you can put it as, in a house, there are many tenants.
Usually small or normal e-commerce businesses will choose this type of
hosting. Websites with high tra c might not be able to choose this type of
hosting due to insu cient webspace.
Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting refers to hosting in which you rent a server from your web
hosting provider and will be placed at your web hosting provider’s datacentre.
They will provide software installation and connection to Internet. This
will indicates that the website owner has control over the server as they don’t
share it with other websites. In short, dedicated hosting is where only 1 user
hosted on the server machine and have a full privilege over the server to
manage it by themself. The server machine will be still belongs to the web
hosting provider.
Co-location Hosting
Well, this hosting has the features which are almost the same as dedicated
hosting EXCEPT that you provide your own server and web hosting provider
just help you to plug it into their datacentre. You need to install own software
and hardwares. Everything is DIY.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller Hosting is a hosting where the account owner has the priviledge to
allocate the webspace and bandwidth access and resell them to his clients.
This shows that reseller hosts act like a middleman and is usually not responsible for any software or hardware intallation. They only buy webspace and resell to clients.
VPS Hosting
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. It is almost the same as dedicated server.
Hence, it’s sometimes called Virtual Dedicated Server. Generally, it means that the account owner has the feeling as though his owns a dedicated server. In real sense, it’s actually separating a physical server into several independent hosting spaces or VPS-es, each isolated from the other. This will allow you to create and manage multiple sites and domains and take full control of your VPS with root/administrator access which allows you to access the virtual hard disk, RAM and to reboot your private server independently from other VPS-es.
Domain Name
After we are done with the di erent types of hosting, there is something else
which I want to touch on. It is none other than the “domain name”. So, ever
wonder what is domain name? Wow, sounds technical? Not really actually.
Don’t be scared. Last time, when I saw the words domain name, it freaked me
out too. Now, when I got used to it, it’s not that nerve-wracking after all.
So, domain name is just the normal web address or url (Uniform Resource
Locator) you type in the “address” area when you open a browser. Examples
of domain name are “AryanIct.com”. You know? Just the normal web
address. Well, since it’s a web address, it’s a unique name. Hence, there will be
no other same domain name. In fact, domain name is actually corresponding with numeric IP address. So, every domain name will have its numeric IP address. For example, the IP address for AryanIct.com is 174.122.47.225
When you see AryanIct.com, ever wonder “.com” stands for what? It actually stands for commercial. Whenever you see .com, .org, .net or others which ends after the nal dot or period (.) of a url, it is known as top-level domain. It actually tells you what kind of website it is, indirectly. And the commonly used domain name extension nowadays will be .org, .net, .com.
However, there are a lot of new domain extension up for grab lately such as .aero, .info, .museum, and .name.
Next in the list that I shall explain is, Country Level Domain Name. Examples of country level domain name is AryanIct.com.af. It has “.af” as its country code top-level domain (ccTLD). .af here represents the country “Afghanistan”. Of course, different country will have di erent ccTLD. For example, .pk stands for Pakistan, .in for India, .jp stands for Japan, .au for Australia, .ca for Canada.
There are more to learn in order to excel in web hosting industry. Hopefully this simple guide will help all those novice out there. There are other things you need to know as well. But, it will be in our next article. Cheers!