So first
things first. What is web hosting. Well, if you want to get online you need a
couple of things. The first thing you need is your domain name and you can
either web hosting service as well so your domain name at that effectively your
Internet real estate as your name on the Internet.
However,
when you buy a domain name you can't actually have a website unless you have a
hosting service. I will need both of them in the web hosting that's basically
the physical infrastructure of the web hosting so that provides the servers,
the network connectivity and the secure data center facility where the servers
are actually located.
Therefore
main types of posting that you need to be familiar with the first shared
hosting than this, reseller hosting, virtual private servers or VPS.
Is there more commonly known and finally
dedicated server salacious taker moment or two to heavily each intern associate
hosting is the most popular form of hosting is called shared because clients
will share a service resource and if you're not familiar with that term server
just think it basically is being a powerful computer and the server. The main
resources that it consists of is RAM which is the memory than the disk space.
The CPU.central processing unit and everything
you would get in a normal PC or laptop, but on a bigger, more resilient scale
will look at facts in a moment or two. The great thing about shared hosting is
very low-cost it instantly.
Setup
soon as you order your service you receive welcome email with all the details
he can get on stop publishing your website accessing your emails and that top
thing and you manage everything through a central control panel.
For example, cPanel is very popular one, and
think this is being on mission control for your hosting service you get email
so you can setup your emails, configure them with your mobile device or if you
use Gmail something I can set up with Gmail or Outlook.
Whichever
type of email program you use, but especially they state. People want to get
the emails only go so that fully compatible with mobile phones, tablets that
something we shared how she would also get things like applications, free
applications. If you're building a blog you can use WordPress if you want to
set up an online shop is loads of e-commerce options to choose things like
pasta shop magenta with shared hosting is a gentle learning curve.
However,
they are the only thing you need to. Be aware of is that there is a low level
of customization. If you got complex hosting requirements. If you want host a
particularly exotic kind of tool has certain types of settings.
It may not be the option for you all are
coming to how you can address those moments were to then this reseller hosting
with reseller hosting this week about amounts of hosting space which you can
then resell them to your clients and the beauty of this is that you can develop
additional recurring revenue stream streams for your business.
So let's
say for example your web design Nortel of developer or maybe an agency that's
perfect for your some kind of web professional because it means you can develop
that ongoing recurring revenue stream for your business and the advantage of
reseller hosting easy get a master control panel this week in and remove your
edit your client so you can create different plans for them.
Crater
hosting packages. You effectively if them the ability to host their own
websites and have their own email accounts that type of thing so each of your
customers will get their own cPanel control panel and in law as we shared
hosting your sharing resources or things that RAM disk space and CPU and that
means that it's a low-cost option for you and this also is also gentle learning
curve.
But as with the shared hosting it is you don't
have much room for customizations. Have you running those exotic tools, etc. it
might not be the best option for you and also you do need to provide first-line
support for your customers so they need help setting up email addresses
whatever you need to be there to support them. Then we have virtual private
servers or VPS in this regular physical server is split into logical or virtual
servers using a virtualization software.
This means that you can that we can offer
different types of operating system on the same physical machine. The beauty of
the virtual private services that very flexible. You can create exactly the
configuration that you want the very foster setup, you can upgrade or downgrade
them on the fly so you can add things like CPU or RAM or disk space that
talking thing so they're extremely scalable.
You can start off with a 1 quart couple of
gigabytes of RAM, then you can copy and I may be a cause and 32 gig of RAM or
whatever it is that you need another thing with VPS is that they can be made
available in a high-availability option which is how Pickwick offers analysis
of the stock or cloud formation websites restored across several physical
machines instead of just having one server with multiple servers and you and
used your data is spread over them so that means even if one machine files
completely, which is extremely unlikely there will be no interruption to
service, they are more expensive than shadow reseller hosting, but you do get
extra flexibility and scalability and you do need some server administration
skills.
If you're not comfortable doing that then we,
for example, epic web will offer a server administration service as an extra
adult. And finally, we have dedicated servers with a dedicated server as its
name suggests, this zero sharing is one physical machine for one client is
actually one server one box that you can actually see and touch and is a
high-powered option and very secure.
You have
any issues with noisy neighbors or anything that they are more expensive from
the start because you have to pay the extra those extra resources. They also
technically belong to set up the new VPS VPS can be spun up in a couple of
minutes wears with with a dedicated server needs technician to actually set
everything up so it may take between 1 to 2 hours also ultimately was an extremely
powerful and not as scalable as a VPS because you are constrained by the
physical limits of the actual dedicated server that you've got certain terms of
the number of CPU cores.
You can have a number of RAM you may be
constrained by the number of physical RAM slots in that machine again, as with
VPS, it does need server administration skills and if you want to have more
high-availability options.
Things
like raid or jewel power supplies to network cards that does come at a cost. So
let's just take a step back a little bit and look at the data center the data
center. This really is the home of web hosting.
This is a
secure multimillion pound purpose built facility and here the servers are
stored in secure racks in the data center has redundant redundancy designed and
built in right from the beginnings of things like power, telecoms, cooling, and
network infrastructure has JEWEL options to make sure that if one files this a
continuation of service and likewise security is built-in from the ground up for
things like physical security access, fire prevention, fire suppression
systems, etc.
so let's have a psychomotor tutor to consider
the server hardware configuration Howard, how is a server configured with the
main components in the server. We got the process of which is Oracle the CPU
and usually you have this individual configurations for each server will have a
jewel set of CPUs and these can be made up of of processes that will have a
particular number of calls and more because you have foster the server will run
the more performance you get out of it with web example will always use jewel
CPUs with multiple causing them then there is memory which is RAM that is
essential for performance and as you as you get with your your laptop or your
desktop the more RAM you happy that you had the faster it will run the same
with the server when you consider that some of the service can handle something
like 760 also gigabytes of RAM is a huge amount of RAM and that so they can run
extremely fast.
It built
for performance then we got the hard drives and these will be configured in a
hot swap configuration so if as if a hard drive does file it can and it will
the server ministration will be notified and will and one and a technician to
just remove the disc whilst the server still working with no downtime and just
replace it with a new one, so there are several types of hard drive to consider
this the older sensor types and there they are typically 7.2 K7 .2 K refers to
the amount of revolutions the disk spins per minutes they started this ticket
for backup.
We would use them on frontline hosting
example. The next option is a sex disk, 10k sass, for example, get 10 KO 15 KSS
nowadays enterprise grade hard drives and these are typically what we we use
for frontline hosting services even on a budget hosting plan you will not
really reliable, fast 10k sex drive, and finally SSD or solid state drive.
These are
the future of data storage. There is no moving parts in them whatsoever.
They're extremely fast that tends in some cases hundreds of times faster than
the older types of term drives. However, you need to be aware that the moments
they are more expensive.
11 have
the capacity of the older sector/type drives, then each of you have a raid
controller you can have a software or hardware controller. We use hard hardware
right controllers and rate stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks
among the stars is also different types of right what it allows the server miss
writer to do is to offer different types of configuration so that the data can
be stored on more than 1 Hard Dr. which removes the possibility of having a
single point of failure, epic web, we will always use a fresh at hosting right
pain with right hand your you need a minimum of four hard drives, but typically
a server will have say 16 hard drives and it the data is stored across several
discomfort across several discs.
So even if one disk files we can just replace
it with a new one is no data loss whatsoever because it stored on more than one
hard drive so we use rate 10 to store your data across several hard drugs,
which means is extremely reliable right hand is the best balance of speed and
security then this power supply units OPS use.
Obviously,
you need to have make sure that the power to the server is consistent so we
have to pack PSU's per server to ensure that there is no downtime one files we
can just swap it out and replace it with a new and likewise with the network
cards, jewel cards, to ensure the network connectivity is not as much as
possible in terms of the server software configuration.
You have
an operating system, for example Saint-Saëns which is a Linux based operating
system is extremely stable in its production operating system as opposed to a
development then you need a Web server.
This is what delivers the content from the Web
server. Natural physical server to the Internet and the options here and like
Apache or lightspeed and we do use lightspeed because it's foster and Apache is
a drop-in replacement for patching is extremely fast then you have these the
control panel.
As we talked about earlier. We see panel which
is the mission control think of as being mission control of your hosting
service.
This is
where you can set up your email account setup databases setup domain parking
domain that owns a whole range of different things then this other software on
the server cloud Linux is used to improve the performance and ensure that no
single user can degrade the performance of the server because they given a
limited that the amount of performance of their laughter use is limited, then
spam express, which is monitoring the outgoing email from the server and the
good the great thing about that is it maintains app server IP reputation
because it does pick up if there's any malware or spam or anything about being
sent out from our servers, then this PHP with which is a popular scripting
language that your billing date database driven website.
You need
PHP 22 for the EM for the for the webpage to communicate with the database and
then there's MySQL which is a database platform. So if you're running something
like a blog on e-commerce application you need database to store your blog
posts or your your products that type of thing and then there is a one click
script installation service.
So if you
want to run WordPress or magenta will hundreds of other different types of
application there will there and free and they can be installed one click in
terms of extras. If you need do these mixers there's things like website
builder so you can easily build and maintain your own website.
If you
are novice than his mobile website builder mobile websites, mobile friendly
websites are extremely important these days that Google is emphasizing this and
is promoting mobile friendly website.
So if you wants to build one. Then you can use
that tool for that SSL certificates HTTPS is extremely important these days as
a secure form of a browsing if you think about a padlock that you often see on
e-commerce websites and again this is something that Google is encouraging the
people adopt HTTPS stuff you need if you want to switch to that you will need
an SSL certificate on the same vein in terms of website security you can have
something like a security sale for your websites and this will constantly
monitor your your files to ensure that there is no malware that you fought that
you website safe show that your customers will show that he's been regularly
scanned is malware free to reassure them if you want to prevent spam coming
into your emails.
Then we
have a spam filter which is called spam experts and again it is extremely
effective at killing spam 799% effective in only let it taste your your
property mouse comfort. It will just kill spam dead in its tracks.
If you need to backup your websites. We do
back our servers that refute some customers want more control over their
backups.
We offer
that option for you as well. If you with another hosting company want to
migrate. We offer migration service, such as contact us if you need any help we
can migrate that over for you.
So let's
just quickly wrap things up and associate hosting that's perfect for most small
businesses, your shared server is low cost foster setup. This low level of
customizations of you running exotic applications you might want to look at VPS
reseller's reseller hosting that's perfect for web professionals web design is
web agencies and anyone who wants to develop an ongoing recurring revenue from
their customers.
VPS virtual private servers. These are
flexible, powerful and scalable servers, then this dedicated server again
secure powerful option, but slightly more expensive than VPS.
The data
center. This is the home of the web of web hosting. It's a purpose built
facility with multiple redundant features to ensure high uptime for any hosting
customers terms of hardware configuration.
Always look for jewel components such as CPUs
ram hard drives and network cards. Power supply units for software
configuration. We optimize our servers for performance and reliability.
We use
tools like lightspeed to make sure they really operate extremely fast and
finally there hosting extras. If you need to customize your online presence
will make sure that you've got things like a secure website and explain your
options.
Therefore, you will exit. Thank you very much
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