Web Hosting Services & Providers
It is only natural with the ever growing integration of Internet into our everyday life that more and more people start creating a website of their own - a personal page where they share experiences, photos and thoughts or a fan site of some sort. But all that means that a lot of new sites will need web hosting services to get published online.
What is a Web Hosting Service?
Web hosting is a service that allows you to upload a certain website onto a web server that is connected to the Internet 24/7. Of course there is a lot more to it on the backend but this is as simple as an explanation can get. Naturally web hosting services can be quite different and that is good because different websites need different type of hosting services but in order to know what is needed for a certain website, one should get familiar with a least the most common types.
Types of Web Hosting Services
There are many characteristic traits that can be used when differentiating the types of hosting services but in my opinion the most important one is the operating system that will be running on the web server. Here we have two very popular options and that would be Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting. As one might imagine there is a core difference in the applications that run on each of these operating systems and therefore a certain website may be able to run only on one of them, according to the application requirements. For example, when a .NET framework is required for a certain website, there is no way it will be able to run on a Linux-based server and therefore it will require Windows web hosting.
Apart from the operating system there are many other features that can be used to categorize the web hosting services. For example there are application oriented website hosting services:
- 4images hosting - 4images is a wonderful online gallery script that is provided for free and you can integrate into any website regardless of whether it is personal or business. It is suitable even for portfolio presentation of professional photographers.
- Joomla hosting - Joomla is an online web content management system that is completely free. It is probably the most popular CMS on the Internet and it allows even a complete novice to create a professional looking website with ease. There are even free Joomla templates that you can use in order to avoid creating the website from scratch and that will save you a lot of time.
- Moodle hosting - Moodle is a fantastic online learning management system that is also provided for free. It provides endless capabilities for online education that will allow one-on-one tutoring as well as group classes with lots of fun and better achievements.
- WordPress hosting - WordPress is also a free application that you can find on the Internet. It is also one of the best blogging softwares you can find with a complex structure, lots of features and functions and yet it is easy to use and fast to learn. And there are free WordPress themes that you can find online to give you a jump-start on your professional looking website.
You can even find web hosting services that are not online optimized for a certain application but they include an installer like the Elefante Application Installer provided by ResellersPanel.com that will allow you to set up over 40 applications with just a few clicks.