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Website Hosting

Shared hosting is the most widely used type of website hosting, and is also the easiest to begin with. It is a service where one hosting server is divided among lots of web hosting users who are restricted by the CPU, web traffic and web content space quotas that they have been assigned. This type of website hosting is normally less expensive - you don't need to buy the entire web server in advance, as it is shared among many web hosting customers, and the hosting provider can afford to provide much more modest prices. It is also easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-configured with all the required software and the web hosting distributor takes care of all server maintenance procedures and security updates for you.

The disadvantage of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's resources with other hosting account holders and if a given site becomes really popular it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the sites on that web server, but most web hosts, including NTC Hosting, have protection systems in place that obstruct that from taking place.

VPS Hosting

To fulfill the need for budget, but reliable hosting services, providers initiated a transitional website hosting solution - the virtual private web server. This is a virtual simulation of a hosting server that works just like a dedicated servers hosting and is much more powerful than any shared site hosting solution. At the same time, as a lot of accounts are hosted on the same physical hosting server and each user pays for their account, the price for a private virtual server web hosting solution is significantly lower than the price for a dedicated web server. A small-scale VPS hosting account is a bit more high-priced than the most feature-rich shared web page hosting account, but its system resources excel by far those of the shared web hosting account.

Each given account is isolated from the remaining accounts on the server, so each virtual web hosting server can run a different Operating System and be rebooted independently from the other ones. The VPSs are administered via a virtualization console where users can take a glimpse at all running tasks and terminate or restart them, update server-side software, have a glimpse at the used up and the remaining system resources, and much more. OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, Virtual PC and VMware are merely a few instances of software platforms utilized for setting up and managing Virtual Private Server web hosting accounts. They have various requirements in relation to the central processing unit architecture, the OSs they support, and so on. For instance, Virtuozzo can function on machines with x86 or AMD64 processors, can be installed on a server running both Windows and Linux OSs, and permits both of these Operating Systems to be activated on the concrete private virtual web servers.

Register a Domain Name

If you would like to create a site, this means that you require a domain. A domain is a human-memorable name that you write in your browser's location bar when you wish to reach a particular web portal.

This is an issue I introduce due to the fact that a week ago my boss came up with the idea of setting up a site for our new project. That itself is not a problem, the problem is that he needs a web site, but has not made a decision yet about what it should look like, what it should contain, etc. All that he mentioned to me was the name of the web site - its domain. Thus, we now have an address for a yet-to-be-established site and nothing else.

Each website is hosted on a physical server. That physical server has its own personal physical address, popular also as an IP address. Accessing a web site by writing the IP address of the machine in your web browser, however, is not the best and most convenient thing to do, so that was how and why domains appeared. So, a domain name corresponds to an IP address on the Internet. Once it has been registered, that is.

To register a domain name, you first need to discover a domain registration provider. NTC Hosting offers an optimal solution for my present and future projects - they provide a Domain Manager plan, which can be easily upgraded to a web hosting plan later on - when my boss finally decides what purpose the website will have.