What Is Web Hosting?
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A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that provides individuals, organizations to host their own website, and users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or other content accessible via the World Wide Web.
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Types Of Hosting
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| Shared Web Hosting |
One's web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU.
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Reseller Web Hosting |
Allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a provider.
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| Virtual Private Server
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Slicing up a server into virtual servers. each user feels like they're on their own dedicated server, but they're actually sharing a server with many other users.
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| Dedicated Hosting |
The user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server.
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| Shoutcast Hosting |
SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware audio streaming technology, developed by Nullsoft.
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Control Panels
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| cPanel |
cPanel is a graphical web-based management tool, designed to make administration of web sites as easy as possible.
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| Plesk |
The Plesk software package is a commercial web hosting automation solution by SWsoft. It allows a server administrator to set up new websites, email accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface.
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| DirectAdmin |
DirectAdmin is a commercial web interface for managing Linux, Debian and BSD servers.
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