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The Five Types of Specialist Web Hosting Services

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Part – 5

Types of web hosting services

Web Hosting based on OS- Before hosting any web content, one must first decide the operating system that the server will run on. In this regard, by far the most popular operating systems are Windows running Internet Information Server (IIS) or Unix/Linux running Apache Server. In comparing the two, it isn’t really possible for prescribing one as being ‘better’.

Windows is a much more complex (and expensive- Linux is free) operating system to use, thanks to its GUI. However, given the universal popularity of Windows in most computers, compatibility becomes a major argument (more…)

Web hosting services for medium to large scale organizations

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Part – 2

Types of Web Hosting Services

Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting- A single physical server is partitioned into multiple servers, each independent of each other in terms of resources and operating system. This ensures that each user is not affected by how much resources the other users are consuming, giving him complete and independent control over his server environment as in a dedicated hosting. However, most of the web hosts provide a lot less in terms of actual allocated resources than what is offered in their advertisements, in the hopes that the user will never utilize the virtual server at peak capacity. This can lead to the same problems as in a shared hosting environment when the system is (more…)