Types of Internet web hosting

Stay Free
Main article: Free accommodation
Free accommodation is extremely limited when compared with theaccommodation fee. These services usually add advertising on sites and have limited space and traffic.

shared Hosting
Main article: Shared Hosting
In this type of service customers from multiple sites hosted on one server, thanks to the web server configuration program. It is a very good alternative for small and medium customers, is an economic service due to cost reduction and by sharing a server withhundreds of thousands or millions of people or users the cost is dramatically reduced for everyone, and has good performance.
The disadvantages of this type of web hosting should be mentioned especially the fact that sharing hardware resources of a server from hundreds or thousands of users significantly decreases the performance of it. It is also very common that a user failures due to impact on others so the server administrator must takeextreme caution when assigning writing and execute permissionsto users. In summary, the disadvantages are: reduction of server resources, speed, performance, security and stability.

Image Hosting
This type of accommodation is available for storing images on the Internet, most of these services are free and pages worth of advertising placed on your page to upload the image.

Reseller hosting (reseller)
Main article: Reseller Hosting
This hosting service is designed for large users or people who sellthe hosting service to others. These packages have a lot of spaceand domains available for each account.

Virtual Servers (VPS, Virtual Private Server)
Main article: Virtual Server
The company offers the control of a computer apparently did not share, which is implemented by a virtual machine. So you can manage multiple domains easily and inexpensively, and choose theprograms that run on the server. Therefore, the type of product isrecommended for design firms and web programming.

Dedicated serversMain article: Dedicated ServerA dedicated server is purchased or leased a computer that is used to provide dedicated services, generally related to web hosting and other network services. Unlike what happens with shared hosting, where machine resources are shared between any number of clients in the case of dedicated servers is generally a single client that has all the resources of the machine for the purposes for which it has contracted the service.Dedicated servers can be used for both shared hosting services to provide dedicated hosting services, and can be managed by the customer or the company that provides them. The physical care of the machine and the Internet connectivity is usually in charge of the company that provides the server. A dedicated server is usually located in a data center.A dedicated server can be understood as the counterpart of shared web hosting, but that does not mean a dedicated server can not be used to provide this service. This is the case when, for example, a company engaged in the business of web hosting purchase or lease a dedicated server with the aim of providing web hosting services to their customers.On the other hand, a dedicated server can be used as an advanced form of web hosting company when a customer has special requirements or performance, or security settings. In these cases it is common for a company to lease a dedicated server self-sufficient in providing needed services to all machine resources.The main disadvantage of a dedicated server is the cost of the service, which is much higher than the shared hosting. This is mainly due to the monthly cost of the machine and the need to hire the services for server management and configuration


Placement (housing)
Main article: Housing
This service consists primarily in selling or renting a physical space in a data center for the customer to place around your own computer. The company gives you the power and connection to the Internet but the server is completely the user chooses (to hardware).


Web hosting in the cloud (cloud hosting)
Main article: Cloud Computing
Web hosting in the "cloud" (cloud hosting) is based on innovative technologies that allow a large number of machines to act as a system connected to a storage media group, has considerable advantages over the traditional web hosting solutions such as the use of resources. The security of a site hosted in the "cloud" (cloud) is guaranteed by numerous servers instead of just one. The technology of cloud computing also eliminates any physical limitations to growth in real time and makes the solution extremelyflexible.


WAYS TO GET
Usually distinguishes between payment services and free services.


Payment Services
This type of collection, usually dictated by the contract for an Internet provider, which along with giving connection between the possibility of using virtual disk storage or web space or combination of both.
Another means of obtaining a service is to hire a company not dependent on the internet, which offer their capabilities as server oryour space. Almost always at the same time, deliver additional services, such as running automated tasks or free email accounts.
Usually transactions are electronic, credit card or payment systemslike PayPal.


free Services
This type of service is given by the basis of being free and withoutcost to the subscriber. However, those who use this service are usually low-resource pages maintenance, or those that owners do not have enough money to maintain.
As a means of financing, the server places advertising Adsenseads or other companies, making the page is filled with advertisingat some point.
Another limitation of these offers is that you have limited space and can not be used as a data warehouse, or subversive or pages can host adult content or not allowed.
However, there is a wide range of accommodation free with very different characteristics and can meet the needs of developers who want a place to test or maintain a site with a very high number of visits not.


 SERVERS AND SERVICES
A web host can be distinguished from another by the type of operating system, use of databases and generation engine exists on the web sites. Combining best-known and widespread is the typeof LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), although it is beginning to use a combination with Java.
Some of the more common services that can be delivered are theFTP, web site management for multiple clients and databases.