Once we decided to have a website or blog, and already understand the terms of blogging, set a niche, and selecting a domain name, of course we must fill our blog with content. But our content must be stored somewhere so that other people can see. This storage is called hosting.
We can have our own hosting by creating our own server or we can ride on a server other people for free or paid.
Hosting Types
There are a variety of hosting services that are available, from a free, cheap, to expensive. Everything has advantages and limitations, so we use the type that should be in accordance with our needs.
Free web hosting
This service is not paid, so we do not have to pay anything but usually a lot of ads appearing on our website and some do not allow us to have a personal domain. Web Hosting offered by various companies with very limited services when compared to paid hosting. Example of free web hosting is bythost.com, 000webhost.com, etc. Examples of free hosting provider for blogs or blog hosting are wordpress.com, blogger.com or blogspot.com.
Shared / Virtual web hosting
A web site is placed on the same server and share with many other sites, from hundreds or thousands of sites. Typically, all domains may share the resources of the server, such as RAM and CPU. Features available with this service type could be quite large. A web site can be hosted together with the reseller. This type of hosting is the most widely used because they cost too much cheaper.
Reseller web hosting
This type of hosting allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Reseller for each domain can function on a combination of all types of hosting, depending on who its affiliated providers. Reseller account numbers may vary widely: they can have a virtual dedicated server to your own server collocated. Many resellers who provide almost identical with shared hosting providers and provide technical support by itself.
Virtual Dedicated Server
Virtual Dedicated Server is also known as Virtual Private Server (VPS) that divide the server resources to virtual servers, where the resources can be allocated in a way that reflects the indirect hardware. VPS often allocated resources based on a single server into multiple VPS, but virtualization can be done for several reasons, including the ability to move containers between the VPS servers. Users can have primary access to their own virtual space. It is also known as virtual private servers or VPS. Sometimes the customer is responsible for patching and maintaining the server.
Dedicated hosting
We have the Web server itself and get full control over it, even though we usually do not really have their own server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged Hosting. This is usually the most expensive hosting because we have own server and a single server there is only one hosting and domain name belongs to us. Because we have full administrative access, means that we are responsible for their own security and maintenance so that we need experts to do so.
Managed hosting
We have the web server itself, but do not have full control over it, but we are allowed to manage the data via FTP or other management tools. We have limited control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing us to change the server or potentially create configuration problems. Users usually do not have a server, because servers leased.
Colocation web hosting
This is the type of web hosting services are the most reliable and expensive. Similar to the dedicated web hosting, but users have their own colo server hosting located on hosting company and those who care In most cases, the collocation provider may provide little to no support directly to our computer, and only provide electricity, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, we will have his own administrator visit the data center field to upgrade any hardware or changes.
Cloud hosting
Cloud hosting is a new type of platform hosting a strong, scalable, and reliable servers based on load balancing and calculation of the aid bill. This hosting service allows us to pay only what we use for what we can use.
Clustered hosting
Hosting with multiple servers with the same content to use resources better. Clustered server is the perfect solution for dedicated hosting with a high level of availability or make a web hosting solution that can be measured. A cluster can be separated from the web service database hosting capabilities.
Grid hosting
This form of distributed hosting when a server cluster acts like a grid and consists of several nodes
Home server
Usually a single machine placed in a private residence that can be used to host one or more web sites that are usually derived from consumer-class broadband connection. The server computer can be assembled or old PCs. Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by banning the request into the TCP port 80 of the user connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. Common way to achieve a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. Dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address of the destination URL into the IP address when the change
I hope this can help, and I will be glad if you have something to share here…