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Guide to hosting services

Anyone who realized that his or her intention to publish his or her website in the Internet is serious and spent some time at the hosting providers’ websites normally has a general idea about the meaning of the term ‘hosting’. Yet, it may prove difficult to quickly get familiar with the whole variety of hosting service packages that are offered in the market, and choose the one that allows your project to be implemented most effectively.

• Free hosting
• Shared server
• Shared dedicated server
• Dedicated server
• Co-location
• Domain name registration
• Domain name parking
• Hosting re-sale

This Guide is designed to help you get familiar with these packages and make a conscious decision about hosting services.

English word ‘host’, from which the term ‘hosting’ is derived, has many similar meanings. One of them is ‘keeper of a hotel or inn’. If we take this meaning as basis, understanding the difference between different types of hosting would be easier. You will only need to imagine that your website is a living person, who needs to stay somewhere for a night.

Free hosting. You can publish your website in the hosting provider’s server free of charge. Yet, it would be more correct to say – not for money. There is still a kind of payment for this service.

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Shared server. A good option for private projects or small or medium scale projects. Your hosting provider rents you disk space in one of their internet servers; your site shares its resources, software and available bandwidth with the other clients’ sites.

Dedicated shared server. This service is for those who do not want to be guaranteed from the problems of the neighbour websites sharing the server. The customer gets a portion of the disk space in the hosting provider’s server run by an autonomous operating system.

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Dedicated server. Under this service, a hosting provider rents the customer the whole server in a location. This server will be exclusively configured to fit your needs and will be dedicated to perform your tasks. 

 Co-location. Under this service, customer-owned server is placed inside the hosting provider’s network, it its server location. Customer is to ensure safety of their data, operation of their website and data traffic, while hosting provider offers the room, uninterrupted power supply, dedicated connection to Internet, safeguarding and, optionally, maintenance services.

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Beside the service of hosting your websites, hosting providers offer a range of optional services of interest:

It is easy to think of a parallel to the real-life analogues of these services.

Registration of a domain name – is merely a registration of your residence address. As a result of such registration, you announce your name and address where you can be found when needed.

Domain name registration is performed by a specialized agents called “registrators”. However, hosting provider can take up the burden of getting your website domain name registered for you.

Parking. If a customer has registered a domain name, but cannot afford to pay for the hosting services, you may ‘park’ your domain name in your hosting provider’s server without having to pay for the hosting. In this case you even get a mailbox with your domain name.

Use this service to reserve a domain name after yourself.

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Reselling

Reselling became very popular in the hosting services market. It allows small businesses and private individuals to make money by re-selling hosting services, which does not require significant capital investment. .

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