subject: Web Hosting From Acumencs [print this page] Acumen Consultancy Services PvtAcumen Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. (AcumenCS) is a single window offshore web development company in India (its an ISO9001: 2008 certified company) providing web development, web design, SEO and web hosting services to its clients all over the world, especially in the US and the European Union.
At present AcumenCS provides hosting services in collaboration with Castlegem Ltd., a London based company. Besides regular shared hosting server, AcumenCS offers Virtual Private Server (VPS), dedicated server and customized hosting solution depending on the clients need.
All types of websites individual or organization - are made accessible through the World Wide Web by web hosting services. A web hosting company owns a server or leases it, and provides space to its clients on the same. Clients of web hosts are provided internet connectivity normally in a data center. Also in a process called colocation, a web host can even provide data center space and internet connectivity for a server it itself doesnt own.
Files can be uploaded to the web with little or no processing through File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web interface in case of web page and small scale file hosting. This is the most basic type of hosting service that is offered free to the subscribers by many internet service providers or ISPs. Free hosting normally applies to personal websites. Hosting of personal websites is either free or ad-sponsored or cheap.
On the other hand hosting of business websites is a more expensive and complex affair. E-commerce or more complex websites need database support as well as application development platforms like PHP, Java, ASP.NET, SSL etc.
Apart from free hosting service, there are different types of web hosting services:
Hosting of a website on a server that is shared by a few or multitude of sites is known as shared web hosting service. All domains in this case may have RAM, CPU and other server resources in common. The scope of shared hosting is pretty large.
Clients can themselves be web hosts in reseller web hosting. Virtual Private Server or VPS is a process in which server resources are divided into virtual servers which can run their own full fledged operating systems and can be independently rebooted. VPS is also referred to as VDS or Virtual Dedicated Server.
In case of Dedicated hosting service a user is given his own web server over which he can have complete control. A user is given his own web server in case of managed hosting service as well but he cannot have complete control over it. Almost similar to the dedicated hosting is the colocation web hosting service; its just that the user owns the colocated server.
Apart from the aforementioned, there is cloud hosting, clustered hosting, grid hosting, and home server.
Hosting can be of different types: file hosting, image hosting, video hosting, blog hosting, one-click hosting, Pastebin, shopping cart, and email hosting.
Having conducted SCAMPI C appraisal, AcumenCS is looking to meet SCAMPI A requirements in order to achieve CMMI Level 3 status.
