Introduction to Web Hosting

Web Hosting what is it?
Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your web browser is basically just a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto your web browser. In general, a web site is a collection of many web pages. And a web page is basically composed of texts and graphic images. All these web pages need to be stored on the web servers so that online users can visit your website.
Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, you will need to host your website on a web server. When your website goes live on the web server, online users can then browse your website on the Internet. The Companies that provides the web servers to host your website are called web hosting providers.

A well-established web hosting provider sometimes hosts up to thousands of websites. For example,  AccuWebHosting, is a web hosting company that hosts thousands of websites. For that reason, AccuWebHosting need many web servers (essentially, these are computers) to store the website. And all these web servers are connected to the Internet through high speed Internet connection and housed in a physical building called a data center. In order to guarantee all the web servers are safe, secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a physically secure 24/7 environment with, virus detections, computer data backup,, fire protection, redundant power backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities.

There are different kinds of web hosting companies out there with different characteristics. The main types of web hosts can be organized into the following categories:

Shared Web Hosting
In shared web hosting (or virtual hosting), websites are sharing the space on the same physical web servers. Depending on the web host, a physical web server can host a few hundred to even thousand of different websites at one time. The question you might ask yourself is if a, physical web server is shared by so many websites, will the performance of the web server deteriorate? In fact, web servers are usually equipped with high-end powerful computers, therefore it can support up to a certain number of websites without an issue. It is when the web server is overloaded and exceeded the reasonable number of websites that it can support, then you will begin to experience a slower response from the web server. However, a reputable and experience web hosting provider will constantly monitor the performance of the web server and will add new web servers when deem necessary without sacrificing the benefits of the website owners. Since a physical web server is shared (diskspace, computer processing power, bandwidth, memory) by many websites, the web hosting provider can therefore afford to offer a lower hosting price. For the same reason, websites on the shared hosting would have to accept slower server response time. Typically, shared hosting plans start at $5 - $20 per month.