Web hosting!

Web hosting becomes very cheaper. If we want to have website, there are two things we have to do. One is domain registration and another one is web hosting. Domain can be register from domain registrar available from our location and it will not cost you not even 200Rs. Next part is also easily available but selecting proper web hosting provider is very difficult. OK lets analyze what are all the difficulties we will face. First and foremost thing is price. It depends upon Service provider we choose and it depends upon the services they are giving. First web hosting means one space available on the internet for 24 hrs. So that others can access your websites and files without having any problem. That is called downtime. There are two types of web hosting. Depends upon the OS they are calling it as Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting. Both will be available from the provider. We need to decide which OS we need irespective of what kind of Web server language we are going to use. Websites are two major types. One is static site and another one is dynamic site. Static site will have only HTML and Flash contents, there will not be any data transfer occure. All the data are Static and manually updated by the designers. Dynamic site is using web Server languages and using some databases to retreive and present the data to the users in the convinient and efficient manner. Windows web hosting is mainly using IIS as web server and using ASP as a web server side scripting language. Linux web hosting mainly using Apache as web server and PHP as web server language. In between other webservers also available. They are Tomcat from Apache, weblogic and webspeare etc. These webservers are using JSP as web server language. It can be deployed on both Windows as well as Linux web hosting. Compare to Windows web hosting Linux webhosting is cheap. So mostly people will go for Linux web hosting. Next we will see the Server uptime and bandwidth allocated etc. Webhosting have several options and you can use them depends upon your website like if you are planning for commercial website, and if you are expecting more traffic will come to your website. Those sites are generally known as Portals. Example rediff.com. and indiatimes.com. For portals mostly required high bandwidth and uptime. So they will host them in Dedicated servers, which is costlier arround 1 Lakh per year and the total bandwidth and maintainence is ours. We will have root access and Service providers will give partial or full technical support sometimes. OK. But our website is not a portal but commercial site and we are having arround 2000 remote users. Then we can go for Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. This is economical for sometimes. Once your website picks up more traffic you can upgrade it to Dedicated servers. VPS hosting is mostly like Dedicated server but the server bandwidth will be shared to few people like 1 or 2 maximum 5. If other sites are not using the allocated bandwidth you can borrow their bandwidth for your purpose. So its economical in some situations. Maintenence and support will be provided. Last and beginners option is Shared web hosting. Its very cheaper compare to others. Maximum 700 Rs per year. We will have some alloted space arround 15 GB to 30 GB depends upon the service provider and hosting plan. It will be shared to mail hosting and Database space. Some providers will give mail hosting free of cost. Rest will charge some bucks. So we have the wide variety of choice to select. So experience is the better way to learn. First we can go for Shared hosting for 1 year, then we will be familiar with the plans and prices.