Part – III
The sea of web hosting services, gimmick or reality
Web hosting services are the medium that bring a website online. A web hosting services provider offers the bare basic services that are required to get a website online and help maintain them. Small business and personal websites need a bare basic infrastructure and most free software like fantastic and WordPress help them remain online. Large corporate and commercial websites on the other hand require a state of the art infrastructure, professional service, databases and sometimes features like Windows Server and ASP as the acceptable margin for error is non – existent. There are several types of web hosting services but the two most basic types of web hosting services provided by a web host are web hosting and domain name. Under web hosting, depending on the requirements of the customer there are various forms of web hosting.
Shoutcast hosting is a new format of hosting and its demand is on a rise with the growing popularity of podcasts and online radio stations. However, it is more or less another form of shared web hosting with software that support live streaming added to a standard web hosting package! WordPress hosting and forum hosting are another examples of some very successful marketing gimmicks in the web hosting industry to fool unsuspecting users into believing that it is a specialist service and somehow better than shared web hosting probably available for a lower price tag.
Clever marketers have named their packages and offered them as a type of web hosting catering to a specific need in order to rope in customers, however, there are only five types of web hosting services and the rest can be classified under one of these major formats. Namely, shared web hosting, reseller web hosting, VPS and Dedicated Hosting, Managed web hosting and Colocated web hosting. Most web hosting companies offer domain name registration services along with web hosting in order to keep their customers from signing up with a domain name registrar like GoDaddy who also offers web hosting now. However, only a handful of web hosts offer services such web design, web development, search engine optimization, online marketing and promotion, etc.
The web hosts who offer a range of services are usually the ones who are either a start up or not the specialists in any of the fields and are probably offering all the services they can to get more business. Such web hosts are popular with people who are looking for a one stop web hosting services provider, someone who can not only host their website but also do all the needful so that they can concentrate on the more important things, the purpose of the website. If you are new to web hosting its best to sign up with a web host company like Courtix, which is dedicated to make its customer’s online experience an enjoyable one as we go the extra mile in order to keep our customers happy and satisfied.
In the next article, we will start with domain name service and then move on to the basic five and other ancillary types of web hosting services, keep reading for more.
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