Today's Date: March 10, 2010

Web hosting

Web hosting is one of the Internet hosting services (as well as e-mail hosting service, DNS hosting service, and domain name registration). This service provides access to different websites by means of Internet. There exists a special kind of companies (Web hosts) providing space on their servers to the customers.

The term Web Server has two meanings at the same time:

1. The software that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from browsers, and passing back the websites’ attributes, such as HTML-code of the web page, images linked to it and so on.
2. It can also mean a computer, which runs this very program.

According to services providing terms web hosting services are sometimes divided into free and paid hosting services. Free hosting service is most of the times advertisement-supported, and has some sufficient limitations in comparison with paid hosting.

The main types of hosting according to the source provided are:

- Virtual dedicated hosting - provided by a server divided into virtual servers, where each user has the feeling that he or she uses a dedicated server, while each user shares it with the rest.
- Dedicated hosting - the user owns the web server and has full control over it; the user, however, typically does not own the server itself.
- Managed hosting service - the user owns the web server but doesn’t have full control over it. But they are allowed to manage their data by means of FTP or other remote management tools.

When choosing web hosting you should pay attention to the following details:

Reliable Linux Hosting / VPS hosting in the UK.

Seo services - Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing can dramatically increase the number and quality of website visitors.

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