Having a website, increases by leaps and bounds, the reach as well as the revenue-generating opportunities of any business in today’s highly competitive global market. As per reports, it is estimated that almost 95% of all purchases will be through e-commerce by the year 2040. That is why it won’t be an exaggeration to utter that now’s the time to bring your business online by hosting your website. Having a website is one thing but availing the right web hosting service for your specific business site holds the key to its online success to a significant extent. Let us explore more on this.
Website Hosting and its Types
As you might be aware of, creating a website is just the beginning point of your journey of bringing your business online to a large number of prospective customers from every part of the world. The next step, after getting your domain registered, involves opting for the right web hosting service from a reputed and reliable web hosting service provider, such as HTS Hosting, that will ensure that your website remains safely accessible at high speed all the time and is always up and running seamlessly.
Website hosting or web hosting is a service that needs to be availed for making any website, regardless of its size or type, accessible online. This service is made available through a wide variety of web hosting plans that are offered by various professional website hosting companies. Every web hosting plan delivers a certain amount of bandwidth, along with other features, at a certain price to fulfil the hosting requirement of a particular type of website. The bandwidth requirement of a simple site will differ from the bandwidth and other specification-related requirements of the site of a large-sized business. That is why every website hosting service provider offers different types of web hosting services to cater to the varying hosting requirements and budgets of different types of websites.
If you are curious about what web hosting exactly entails, then let us run you through it, in brief. Every website that avails the service of web hosting gets allotted web server space, based on its hosting plan. The content of the website gets stored on the web server in the form of files. When a user looks for a website on his Web browser, the browser sends request for the data of that site to the web server on which the files are stored. The server receives the incoming request and responds to it by locating the content in its storage, processing it and then delivering it to the web browser over the Internet. At this stage, the website becomes accessible to the user who was looking for it online. All this happens within a matter of few seconds. That is why it becomes even more important to avail professional web hosting services which offer fast page loads and high uptime, especially for business sites which cannot afford to lose potential customers.
When you look for web hosting services to host your website, you will come across many types of web hosting services. This might confuse you, especially in the absence of proper information regarding the differences between the various types of hosting services. We are here to aid you in understanding what each of the main types of web hosting services entails.
Let us begin with letting you know the names of the main types of web hosting services, if you are unaware of it. The service of web hosting can be availed as either Shared Hosting or Dedicated Hosting or VPS Hosting or Reseller Hosting or WordPress Hosting. Next, let us touch upon how these hosting services differ from each other.
Shared Web Hosting offers hosting service to website owners by providing shared server space to multiple sites that are hosted on a single server. In it, there is a single web server which is used for storing the files of many websites. This results in sharing of server space and resources among all the hosted sites, causing limited resource availability for the individual sites. It often causes issues with regard to speed and security, owing to the shared server environment. Yet it is a popular website hosting solution because it is the most economical web hosting service. Shared Hosting is available for both Linux and Windows, in the form of Linux Shared Hosting plans and Windows Shared Hosting plans. Is it an appropriate web hosting solution for an enterprise? The answer to it shall be revealed in the next section. Before that let us elaborate on the other types of hosting services.
Reseller Hosting is a web hosting solution that has been designed for those that want to be resellers of the web hosting services of a professional website hosting company. There are many perks of becoming the resellers of the hosting services of companies that have earned the reputation of being the “Best Website Hosting Company” or the “Best Cloud Hosting Company” or the “Best Windows Hosting Company”. The reseller avails packages from a reliable web hosting company and designs his own plans and resells the hosting services at a profit to his own clients, without having to invest in the infrastructure that is required to run a full-fledged web hosting business.
WordPress Hosting is yet another type of hosting service but it is meant for WordPress sites as is indicated by the name itself. WordPress Hosting has been designed to cater to the specific requirements of WordPress sites, especially with regard to such sites’ security and performance requirements.
Now we will describe two other types of hosting services which are very popular. These are known as Dedicated Hosting and VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting. Dedicated Web Hosting, along with VPS Hosting, are excellent options as website hosting solutions for sites that require dedicated server resources as well as enhanced site speed, performance and augmented security. Both these hosting solutions offer the flexibility to customize the server of the user of these services.
In Dedicated Hosting, a single server is provided to a single user for his exclusive use of the web server. Hence, the web server is able to offer the entire resources of the server to the hosted site. When a single website’s files are hosted on a server, there are no other sites competing for the server’s resources. This results in the site’s performance getting a boost along with its speed and security getting enhanced. Moreover, as the sole user of the web server, you have the freedom to customize it at will, depending on your specific hosting requirements. The same is the case with a Virtual Private Server, which is offered in VPS Hosting. Let us find out how.
A Virtual Private Server is able to provide the environment of a dedicated server to each of its users that coexist in the shared server space of a VPS. This is attained with the help of Virtualization Technology, which partitions a physical server virtually into multiple servers that remain isolated from each other and act as virtual, private servers. Each of these multiple virtual servers is fully equipped to install its own software and operating system and function as an independent web server to deliver dedicated server resources to its user. That is the reason why a VPS is able to provide unrivalled speed, security and performance. Are these (Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting) your ideal web hosting solutions as the owner of the site of a large-sized business? We will find that out in the next section.
Recommended Web Hosting Solutions for Large-sized Businesses
It goes without saying that the website of an enterprise or any large-sized business will be content heavy and will attract site visitors in droves. Such a resource-intensive website will require dedicated server resources and won’t be able to run effectively on the shared server resources offered by Shared Hosting. Hence, you have the answer, that Shared Hosting cannot be recommended for websites of large-sized businesses.
The specific hosting requirements of websites of enterprises can only be adequately met by the dedicated server resources provided by Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting. As has been mentioned previously, both these types of web hosting solutions can easily enhance speed, security and performance of websites by providing dedicated server resources along with the ability to customize the server.
A business site needs to load fast to offer the best user experience of the site and ensure site revisits/visits by its existing customers as well as its potential customers. Additionally, it needs to be secure for carrying out online sales and monetary transactions related to the sales. Both these requirements are catered to perfectly by Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting. That is why enterprises should opt for Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting while searching for the most appropriate hosting services for their websites.
Before concluding, it needs to be mentioned that HTS Hosting excels in delivering various, highly affordable plans for Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting to its global customers, which include businesses of all sizes and from various sectors. All the hosting services of HTS are renowned for providing high uptime, fast speed, robust security, excellent performance, round-the-clock technical support and much more at the most affordable prices.
If your business site needs the best website hosting solution, then one of our Dedicated Hosting or VPS Hosting plans will surely meet your requirements and deliver an exceptional hosting experience at budget-friendly prices.
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