Newbie in / for Webhosting? What is Webhosting? About Webhosting? Types of Webhosting…
Hohoho, wanna start to build a website but donot know how to start? Well, you need to have a webhosting. It can be free or paid, of course pay will get a stable and great support from the company. With the paid webhosting, now they do provide free web design application. This mean you can now develop and design your website easy by using the tool they provided. What you need to do is buy a hosting with free web develop tool, select template from the tool and start design your website.
Oh, we are going too far, at here we only want to provide some information for web design and webhosting newbie to know what is webhosting.
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 webhosting. Then, that’s the time you start finding yourself a web hosting provider. Here, webhosting 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 finally understand what webhosting is, next will be the time to find out more about the different types of web hosting available. You have shared hosting, dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, and collocation hosting. You name it, the Internet has it! Let’s start to go through the different kinds of hosting in the market:
Shared hosting, it 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, blog, and small forum will choose this type of hosting. But due to too many people are sharing and it may cause the your site load slowness in some time.
Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting refers to hosting in which you rent a server from your web hosting provider and will be placed at your webhosting 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 has a full privilege over the server to manage it by themselves. The server machine will be still belongs to the webhosting provider.
Collocation Hosting
Well, this hosting has the features which are almost the same as dedicated hosting EXCEPT that you provide your own server and webhosting provider just help you to plug it into their datacentre. You need to install own software and hardware. Everything is DIY.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller Hosting is a hosting where the account owner has the privilege 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 installation. 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, 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.
Domain Name
After we are done with the different 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 “kidbuxblog.com“. You know? It is just a normal website 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 kidbuxblog.com is 102.18.150.179
When you see kidbuxblog.com, ever wonder “.com” stands for what? It actually stands for commercial. Whenever you see .com, .org, .net or others which ends after the final 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 kidbuxblog.com.my. It has “.my” as its country code top-level domain (ccTLD). .my here represents the country “Malaysia”. Of course, different country will have different ccTLD. For example, .jp stands for Japan, .au for Australia, .ca for Canada.
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