Online space is growing steadily. The count of companies is huge and each of them needs an online presence, as much as people who have blogs or want to tell the world about themselves via the internet. When you want to start a business in the real world, you need a physical location to keep and sell your products or an office to provide a service. Right? It turns out that you need a physical space for online business too. So basically, your website needs two things to be hosted: web space and brandwidth.
Web space: The files and codes that make up your website take space. The scheme is simple – the more files you have, the more space you need.
Bandwidth: is measured as the amount of data that can be transferred from or to server/website within a network in a specific amount of time. It is an important factor for speed and connection quality. Brandwidth is expressed as bps (bits per second).
The service of providing storage space to customers for the websites that are accessible via the World Wide Web is called web hosting. This space is provided by web hosting service suppliers like www.hostimul.com. Most hosting companies require that you own your domain in order to host with them. If you do not have a domain, the hosting companies will help you purchase one.
Hosting companies require several types of hosting. We will talk about the most common ones, which are Shared hosting, Dedicated server hosting, and VPS (virtual private server) hosting.
Shared hosting: If you are at the beginning of your business and the turnover of your company and the number of visits to your site are not large, this option is for you. The several websites are hosted in one server, which means that resources are also shared. In shared hosting, if one website uses more bandwidth and its site has more traffic than usual, your site and all sites which are hosted on this server may go down.
Dedicated server hosting: This type of hosting is best for big companies with high traffic on websites. So if your business is growing and you start getting 1000s visitors to your site, it is time to think about dedicated server hosting. The easiest to explain, the most expensive to purchase. In this case, a whole server is set up just for one customer. It is important to know that the server is not set up for one website, because one customer can use it for as many websites as considers necessary.
VPS hosting: VPS hosting is a mixture of shared hosting and dedicated server hosting. Like in case of shared hosting, you share a server with other customers, but unlike shared hosting, each of you doesn't affect each other. Unlike a dedicated server, VPS hosting has fewer customization options. It will be no surprise to you that VPS plans are cheaper than dedicated servers.
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