What In Fact is Web Hosting

Having your own personal website is a requisite today. The introduction of the World Wide Web in our daily lives means that, in order for someone to get seen, or to get his voice heard, one needs to build a web page and bring it online. In order to do that, you virtually need two things - a site and a hosting solution. Prior to constructing a site, however, it's crucial to bear in mind that there are distinct kinds of website hosting services and that not all sites can operate with a randomly chosen web hosting. In order to describe this better, let's begin with the chief question:

What is Website Hosting?

Hosting, or otherwise popular as 'web hosting', is a designation that relates to the web server itself, or the company that provides the web hosting server. A web hosting server is a computer that's connected to the Internet and that's set up to support PHP, MySQL, Perl, and so on, which allows the clients to upload their web site files on the web hosting server and to have them published online. There are two main kinds of servers, based on the OS of the web server - Windows and Linux. The 2 OSs are quite dissimilar and, in most cases, not at all consistent with one another. Hence, prior to selecting the proper solution, one should first discover what type of server is needed for their online portal.

If you haven't built the web site so far, then let's take a more comprehensive glance at the distinction between the two types and at what their upsides are.

What service should you choose - Windows or Linux?

As mentioned, there are apps, which are only compatible with a specific Operating System. For instance, JAVA scripts, .ASP pages, .NET Framework, Adobe ColdFusion are all Windows based and will not run on a Linux web server. Therefore, if you plan to create your website using any of the above, you should be looking for a Windows solution. Windows, though, is not an open-source software platform, which means that it provides restricted choices in terms of server safety and privacy. Thus, Linux is preferred by server admins around the Globe and most hosting suppliers use it on their web hosting servers. Using Linux, the admin can configure the web server in a fully customizable way, and if the server is properly set up, it can guarantee thorough security against hackers and malware. Plus, the flexibility of Linux permits for better software optimization, which leads to better website performance. For that reason, if you are looking for ultimate protection and web server functioning, then you should develop your site in such a way that it performs with a Linux-based web server. This is not difficult to fulfill, since the most widely used Content Management Systems, also known as CMSs, such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, etc., are completely compatible with Linux web servers and are famous all over the Globe for being one of the best applications for devising and administering web sites. By all means, this doesn't mean that each web hosting corporation that's using Linux will have administrators who are capable to correctly administer a Linux server. Picking the appropriate service provider is quite troublesome now, as the majority of them do not possess the capacity to employ an expert, experienced web admin. A Linux server that hasn't been correctly set up can be quite dangerous to your website and private details. Hence, when selecting a hosting corporation, it's invariably recommendable to select a well-established web hosting provider that's been in business for at least several years.

How to recognize the proper provider for my site?

These web hosting distributors are easily identifiable by the manner in which they are supplying their website hosting services. Established hosting distributors provide custom-built functionality, various open-source PHP-driven scripts or web applications. The most experienced, however, have even their own personal custom-built hosting Control Panels devised especially for their platform. A website hosting Control Panel is an online-based tool, via which the user handles the whole web hosting service. Smaller-sized service providers use ready-for-use hosting Control Panels such as cPanel or DirectAdmin. In order, however, to guarantee maximum security and efficacy for their services, the biggest hosting firms furnish their customers with their very own in-house made website hosting CPs created by their own admins. We, at 'Lime Server', don't merely provide our own custom-built Control Panel, but have also created a free-of-charge PHP-driven script installation tool, which enables our clients to effortlessly install any of the abovementioned CMS platforms. Specifications like these testify that we have the capability, the resources and the experience to be entrusted with retaining your personal details private and your website - accessible on the World Wide Web.