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Web hosting is a type of internet hosting service which allows individual and organizations to store their information and make them accessible through World Wide Web.An internet hosting service is a type of service that runs in internet server, which allows organizations and individuals to serve their content to the internet. It offers different types of services and varies level of services.Web hosting is a common type hosting concept. Most web hosting providers offer a combined variety of services. Web hosting services are also includes e-mail hosting services. For example we can take DNS hosting service. This is usually bundled with domain name registration. Internet hosting service provides high bandwidth for customers.
Internet hosting services are classified into two types of services. Namely,
Full-featured hosting
Limited hosting service
Full-featured hosting
Full-featured hosting services are classified into number of types based on the service that provides. There are,
Dedicated hosting service
Virtual private server
Collocation facilities
Cloud hosting
Dedicated hosting service
1.Dedicated hosting service
Dedicated hosting service is also called as managed hosting service. The hosting provider owns and manages the machine in this type of service. The customer can also provide full control over the server. The management of the server includes monitoring to ensure the server continues to work effectively.
2.Virtual private server
This is another important type of full featured hosting service. In this type of service virtualization technology is employed in order to allow multiple logical servers to run on a single physical server.
3.Co-location Facilities
It provides the internet connection efficiently and uninterruptible power and control, but the client only needs to do the administration process. So it will be the most expensive one.
4.Cloud Hosting
Cloud hosting is another important type of full featured hosting service. In which the client only needs to pay for the system time and space used and also the capacity can be quickly scaled up or down as computing requirement change.
5.Limited hosting services
Limited hosting services are also called as application-specific hosting service. This service provides only limited services and facilities. This is not that much efficient one compared featured services. Limited or application-specific hosting services include the following services.
