Archive for the ‘Web hosting’ Category

Reseller hosting

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use his/her allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host's services wholesale and then sells them to his customers for a profit. The ...

Clustered Hosting

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Clustered hosting technology is designed to eliminate the problems inherent with typical shared hosting infrastructures. This technology provides customers with a "clustered" handling of security, load balancing, and necessary website resources. A clustered hosting platform is data-driven, which means that no human interaction is needed to provision a new account to ...

Shared web hosting / Virtual hosting

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site "sits" on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites. This is generally the ...

Free Hosting Service

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported and of limited functionality. Free web hosts will either provide a subdomain (yoursite.example.com) or a directory (www.example.com/~yourname). In contrast, paid web hosts will usually provide a second-level domain along with the hosting (www.yourname.com). Some free ...

Some other typess of internet hosting

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Some ISP's actively attempt to block these servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user's connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. Some specific types of hosting provided by web host service providers: * File hosting service: hosts not web pages but files * Image hosting service * ...

Types of Internet Hosting Services

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Hosting services limited to the Web: Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported web hosting, and is often limited when compared to paid hosting. Shared web hosting service: one's Web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all ...

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