Commonly used terms in web site hosting

Web site hosting is a vast term that is related to the storing web pages on a web server and providing services to keep these web pages online 24 / 7 on the internet so that any body uses the internet can access it. Internet is the combination of countless websites. These websites are stored on some location. This location for the web sites is provided by the web hosting companies.

Here in this article we will discuss about the words that are related to web hosting and are commonly used in the web hosting world.

Web Design
Designing or developing a web site is known as web design. You can design your website by yourself or by hiring a web developer. Lots of web hosts offer web site design and hosting services in the same package for the ease of customer.

Web Site Hosts
A web site host is a person who provides web hosting services to the customers. A web host is either an individual or a company.

Web Servers
These are the special purpose computers used to store the web pages. These servers are connected to internet 24 / 7.

Datacenter
It is the location owned by a web site host and contains the web servers.

Domain Names
These are the unique names that are assigned to the websites. Any website can be access by these domain names.

Low cost web site hosting
If web hosting services provided by the host at low cost then the hosting type is called low cost hosting or cheap web site hosting and the host is called cheap web host.

E-commerce web site hosting
This type of hosting is used for special purpose e-commerce or large business websites. It contains some special features like shopping cart that is used for online shopping or transactions.

Collocation Hosting
If a person or company buys its own web server and places it in the datacenter of a web host the hosting type is called collocation web hosting. Except the web server all the other services are provided the host.

Dedicated hosting
A full fledge server is dedicated to a customer by the host. These types of web hosting plans are costly as customer has to pay the monthly rent of the server in addition to the monthly cost of the services it provides.

Shared Hosting or Virtual Hosting
It is also a hosting type. In shared hosting more than one websites shared the disk space of the same server called shared server. This shared server behaves like virtual server therefore this type hosting also known as virtual web hosting.

Reseller Hosting
It is also a type of web hosting in which a person purchases a plan from the hosting company and then resell this plan to other customers.