After all the work to create and test the site is completed, comes no less responsible moment — its placement on the Internet. To solve this issue with the greatest convenience for site owners and is called a service called hosting.

The main function of hosting is to organize the provider (host) the necessary disk space for the site on its server, which has an uninterrupted access to the Internet. But in such a composition of this service was provided only at the early days of the Internet. Nowadays it also includes many different additional parameters, such as:

• support of necessary scripts, programming languages
• provision of a mail server at the disposal of the client
• a certain number of mailboxes
• support of several databases and several sites on a dedicated space.

Hosting service also has several types by the nature of information placement. So, for example, virtual hosting involves the work of the site located on one server together with a number of other resources, the number of which sometimes reaches hundreds and thousands. All resources in this case are equally distributed among all sites. Of course, we can not talk about a high level of security, especially when using low-level services. But this option still enjoys the greatest demand due to the low cost and low requirements of most owners. Because for information resources, the number of which prevails over the sites of other directions, does not require rigid security.

We can not say this about sites whose internal information is highly confidential and their hacking can cause serious financial losses. These are online shops and article exchanges, and social networks. For their proper functioning also require additional resources and programmes. As a rule, such projects use one of two types of hosting: dedicated server, which, according to its name, implies a separate server at the disposal of the client, which is used only for his resource, or colocation — placement of equipment owned by the client in the data centre of the hosting provider.

Both of these options reveal virtually unlimited possibilities, allowing for high security and full resource efficiency.

The choice of hosting should be quite careful and thoughtful, because the quality of access to the site depends on it, which, in turn, largely determines the stability of the resource.

Hosting for websites. Advantages and disadvantages

To ensure the functioning of your site on the vastness of the Virtual Web, you will need to provide it with good hosting. If such a concept is barely familiar, I recommend reading the following material, which will not only help to understand the meaning of this term, but also to make a worthy choice.

Hosting, as you have already understood, is designed to place a site on the Internet. Such a service is provided by special companies that offer you to «equip» all the parts that make up your resource, on the territory of their server. Thus, they are the guarantors of the fact that at any time of the day and day the placed project will be available to all, without limiting the number of users simultaneously staying on it.

In addition, a modern hosting service is able to support such features as the allocation of a certain number of mailboxes at the disposal of the client, support, if necessary, databases, scripts and other add-ons, security access to data, as well as no limit on incoming traffic.

Hosting, from a material point of view, is divided into paid and free. The last definition is considered quite conventional, because with free hosting of the site you will have to share the common area with the advertising of the hoster itself. Usually it is located in the upper part of the window. There are other important inconveniences, such as a relatively modest, by modern standards, the space allocated for the site, and the lack of support for additional services. In addition, when choosing free hosting you will have to compromise reliability, because in this case, no responsibility for the quality of services provider does not bear.

The choice of paid hosting provides a much greater perspective in all matters, because in this case, for the money paid you will provide exactly what you ordered originally, without claims to publish advertising and other additional requirements. In addition, the costs will be minimal and insignificant, because even with large requests, you will be able to keep within the amount of up to twenty dollars per month.

When choosing a provider, whether paid or free, you should first of all look for detailed information about it, including its history and reviews. It is better to work directly with a professional company. In this way, you can protect yourself from such a rather time-consuming process as a change of hosting, which will bring a lot of inconvenience. That’s all, and I can only wish you a good hosting experience!

Virtual hosting

Virtual hosting is hosting that involves having more than one website on the same server. The actual number of such sites depends on the size, as well as the intensity of attendance. Given the power of modern processors, it is not surprising when one server hosts more than one hundred sites.
The main advantage that provides virtual hosting in Ukraine is that it allows individuals and organisations that are not distinguished by the presence of unlimited financial resources, feel in the network is not worse than if for this purpose used a whole separate server. But no less significant and disadvantages of shared hosting. In the first place of disadvantages is a non-operative response to emerging problems on the server, that is, the reaction can be called slow, rather than proactive.

Working in the sphere of shared hosting, you will find that you can access the accounts of other users. Up to a time, this is not too much of a concern until you realise that outsiders can gain the same access to your account as well. But let’s be objective, everything is not so terrible, because in any case, the information presented on this or that Internet resource is intended for general use.

But here also not everything is not so unambiguous, there is a list of information that should not be available to all. No less dangerous with shared hosting is also a neighbourhood. So, if one «beautiful» day, one of your web neighbours will want to test a certain script, which will be crookedly written, there is a high probability that the entire server and your site including.
Quite often there are situations when one of the curious neighbours on the site gets access to your account and just out of curiosity, «scans» on the pages. At first glance, nothing terrible, but the feeling is as if your real real house was searched.

Quite unpleasant situation occurs when your IP address is identical to the address of «adult sites», for obvious reasons, some search engines make your record invisible, which significantly reduces attendance. It is most acceptable and safe to host on those servers where there is no place for adult sites.
But, returning to the advantages that have virtual hosting in Ukraine, emphasise the low price, as well as the factor that the management of the server is carried out by professionals, that is, the owner of the site this difficult duty is removed.

VPS hosting

VPS hosting is a set of virtual servers located on one physical server «hardware». A huge plus is that the operating system on the server can be both Ubuntu and Windows. Based on this, you get your own virtual remote server, on which you can do whatever you want, unless of course it does not contradict the laws of Ukraine. If your Internet portal requires, for example, Oracle or media-server, then your choice should definitely be — VPS hosting.

VPS hosting in Ukraine has long been widespread as a type of service, because think about what the Internet means to us now. It has entered our lives more tightly than anywhere else, mail is electronic, ATMs are tied to the Internet, skype, social networks(Instagram, Facebook).

In addition, now it is very prestigious to have a site business card (previously people were content with only paper materials), because you need to represent yourself everywhere where you can see. Where does the life of the site begins? Of course, it begins with hosting.
Why you should choose VPS hosting, namely its pros and cons read below.

Advantages:

• you get dedicated resources for your sites. That is, you get all the ordered disc space down to the last byte.
• you personally control your VPS server in Ukraine — you configure the operating system yourself, manage databases yourself. No one but you will not have the right to dig on the purchased server.
• multifunctionality in terms of software installation — you choose what will stand for the operating system on your VPS hosting.
• the ability to configure apache or php.
• the ability to add an unlimited number of sites — in fact, if you have taken hosting, then all your Internet sites should be in one place.
• speed of functioning of your sites — you can choose the configuration of this or that VPS server. You can test, and after and easily change the percentage of the processor core and the number of cores.

Disadvantages:

• must have experience in administering a VPS server. When I first encountered this type of hosting, I spent a very long time reading the instructions and just poured questions support service.
• price — of course the price for this hosting is higher than the usual, but judge for yourself, with so many advantages, it is justified.

Let’s summarise all of the above. Your resource has a large attendance (6-8 thousand visitors per day) — your choice of VPS hosting. You are the owner of more than one site and want that everything was at hand — your choice of VPS hosting. You want high speed of your site — your choice of VPS hosting.

Dedicated server

A dedicated server is a service, by ordering which the client receives a server fully configured by qualified specialists. The customer is provided with a server ready to work, and it is not necessary to have any specialised knowledge in the field of computer engineering.

Currently, dedicated server — a type of hosting in Ukraine, which is one of the best solutions for those who do not want to spend money and time to purchase an expensive server, hire and train specialised technical staff, and other related costs.

When ordering this type of hosting, the client is given full control over the dedicated server, which allows you to make changes to its settings, to install any software. Dedicated server is an ideal solution for projects that lack the resources of traditional hosting.

One of the advantages of this service is that the customer is provided with a fully functional server with superuser rights. The customer can exercise full control over all files, processes and users in the system. All customers are provided with a dedicated pool of IP-addresses. When renting a dedicated server there is no need for its system administration, including updating and configuration of the operating system.

Also by ordering a dedicated server, the client receives guaranteed security and isolation. This paid service includes technical support and round-the-clock monitoring, so the server works constantly without any interruptions. When choosing this hosting option, the customer’s data is backed up and quickly restored if necessary. The software can be installed by compilation or from RPM.

Conclusions

Dedicated server — a type of hosting in Ukraine, ordering which the customer gets the opportunity to place an unlimited number of domains and sites. When ordering this service, the client is provided with a separate physical server of one of the basic configurations. Such a machine has its own disc space, memory, processor and other resources, as well as a separate connection to the network.

The disadvantage of a dedicated server is its rather high cost. Therefore, if the user does not need the high computing power of a modern computer system, a virtual dedicated server can be ordered as a cheaper alternative to this service.

You will definitely need information such as the length of time the hosting provider has been in operation and feedback about its work from other webmasters. Many companies now practice test hosting, to have a more accurate idea of their services, you can resort to this option. We recommend that you contact our site if you want to receive quality and long-lasting service.