Web - Hosting Concepts:

Web hosting deals with putting the contents of your website on a Web server.

Hosting your website on your own server could be an option. But this will

become very much expensive unless you are hosting a site like yahoo.com or

google.com. So this tutorials does not cover how to set up your own hosting

server. Buying a server space or renting a complete server from an Internet Service

Provider (ISP) is the most widely used option. This section guides you to

choose a hosting type and makes you aware of other related concepts.

Hosting Platforms

You can go for any of the following two most widely used hosting platforms −

👉Windows Hosting Servers − If you are a Windows lover then you will find

many hosting servers running different flavors of Windows and you can

buy space from these servers. Normally Windows hosting servers are

more expensive because of lot of software licensing costs are involved

with these servers.

👉Linux Hosting Servers − If you want to go for Linux then opportunities

are unlimited and they will have to pay less then what you will pay for

Windows Hosting Server. There are many ISP who provides Hosting

Servers with different flavors of Unix.

Hosting Types

There are many options available and you can select any hosting type based

on your requirement and budget. Following are most widely used hosting

types −



Free Hosting

Yes, this is true there are many service providers who will give you free space

on their web server with a condition that you will allow them to run their

advertisement at your web pages. So if you are OK with this option, then you

have nothing to pay for a space. There are some websites like geocities.com,

lycos.com, myspace.com, etc. that give you space to build your web pages.

Shared Hosting

With shared hosting, your website is hosted on a powerful server along with

other websites. On a shared host, you will have your own user ID and

password to login to the shared host and you will be allowed to work in your

work area. You would not be able to touch any file or directory belonging to

other host partner. Even you would not know how many sites are hosted on

your shared host. This type of hosting is very cost effective and good for small

websites where your space and speed are not very important. Here traffic on

one site will affect the speed of all other hosted sites.

Virtual Dedicated Hosting

This type of hosting is better for medium size business. With virtual dedicated

hosting, you will have a dedicated bandwidth and dedicated RAM for your site.

You will be given a root ID and password to maintain your Web server. You

will be the complete owner of your virtual dedicated server and will be able to

install or de-install any software. This type of hosting is created on a single

server, but it is managed in such a way that every user will have dedicated

speed and bandwidth. This is bit more expensive but really good one for

medium size business.

Dedicated Hosting

This type of hosting is very similar to virtual dedicated hosting, but here, a

complete machine will be allotted for you. They are more expensive than

virtual dedicated hosting and should be considered when you have a very high

traffic requirement.

Collocated Hosting

It is very difficult to set dedicated resources such as high-security against fire

and vandalism, regulated backup power, dedicated Internet connections and

more. Collocation is the option which allows you to put your machine in a

service provider's premises to avail all the available facilities. This is also a

very expensive option and should be opted when you have very high traffic

requirement.


Components of Web Publishing

• There are various components of web publishing.



1.Document management

2. Hosting to Web

3.Managing security

4. Maintaining the site

5. Copyright