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 domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU. The features available with this type of service can be quite extensive. A shared website may be hosted with a reseller.

* Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a provider. Resellers' accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a colocated server. Many resellers provide a nearly identical service to their provider's shared hosting plan and provide the technical support themselves.

* Virtual Dedicated Server: dividing server resources into virtual servers, where resources can be allocated in a way that does not directly reflect the underlying hardware. VPS will often be allocated resources based on a one server to many VPSs relationship, however virtualisation may be done for a number of reasons, including the ability to move a container (Virtual Private Server) between servers. The users may have root access to their own virtual space. This is also known as a virtual private server or VPS. Customers are sometimes responsible for patching and maintaining the server.

* Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for Dedicated plans. The user has full administrative access to the box, which means the client is responsible for the security and maintenance of his own dedicated box.

* Managed hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server but is not allowed full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, they are allowed to manage their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.

* Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client's machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, the client would have his own administrator visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.

* Cloud hosting: is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing. Removing single-point of failures and allowing customers to pay for only what they use versus what they could use.

* Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. Clustered Servers are a perfect solution for high-availability dedicated hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution. A cluster may separate web serving from database hosting capability.

* Grid hosting: this form of distributed hosting is when a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.

* Home server: usually a single machine placed in a private residence can be used to host one or more web sites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs. Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user's connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses.

A common way to attain a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL points to when the IP address changes.

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When choosing a web host it's of course important to consider the cost (some hosting can be very expensive) but here are some other important things you should take into consideration too:
Web Hosting Space: Some web hosts will only give you 500MB or so of space. This could be a concern if you are looking at creating large websites.
Bandwidth: Some web hosts will severely limit the bandwidth you can use before you incur extra charges.
Uptime: There's no point in having a website if people can't see it. Does your web host offer at least a 99% uptime guarantee?
Number of websites allowed: If you're looking to host more than one website on your account, will your web host charge you more to do this?
Support: If you have any problems you need to be able to contact your web host quickly and easily to get the problem sorted.



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Hello

A website visitor types in www.mydomain.com/somefile.html, the webserver is handed the request, and it uses the www.mydomain.com portion to determine which specific "site" it should access (remember, a given webserver will have many many websites, this portion of the URL not only locates the correct physical server, but then also which website on that server). Once it locates the www.mydomain.com website, it looks for a file called "somefile.html" and sends that back to the website vistor to display in their browser.

* And I then refresh my browser which was pointed at www.mydomain.com, suddently, the default.html would be loaded... because that's the first file the webserver finds when searching in order for default documents.
* Another important example.... Let's say my website has the following list of default documents:
o index.html
o index.htm
o default.html
o default.htm
o default.asp
* And let's say I have these actual files on my website:
o index.asp
o contact.asp
o services.asp
o products.asp
* When someone visits www.mydomain.com, which file will they be served?
o ANSWER: nothing, they will get a 404: File Not Found error.
o WHY? Because the webserver looked in the directory for each of the default documents, and none of those were present... I designed my site to use "index.asp" as the default/home page, but I didn't update the default document list to search for index.asp. So, unless someone visits www.mydomain.com/index.asp, they won't ever get my index.asp page (until I change the document list).

To find these settings in the control panel:

* log into the control panel
* click on your domain name
* then click on WebDirectories, "webdirectories" is basically Plesk's access to IIS's "virtual directories" settings
* when you click on the webdirectories icon, you are in the "root", note at the top, it says "Web Directory /". The "/"symbol signifies the "root" of the website.
* click the "preferences" icon (the preferences of the "root" directory)
* there you will find options for changing the default documents, and the order in which it looks for them

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Hello, your advice was excellent and it really works for beginner also.
Thank you!

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Thanks for the useful information. Shared hosting is the most popular web hosting plan, basic. Shared web site hosting permits more than one site to be hosted on the same server. Here, the web hosts provide the system administration and the server maintenance. Benefits of a shared hosting site are programming features such as ASP, PHP, MySQL, large bandwidth, and multiple e-mail address capability. Compared to free web hosting, shared web hosting allows a user to have their own domain name. Shared hosting is a way for a hosting company to offer affordable web hosting to their clients while having more users on one server and thus less overhead costs.

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Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting is a much more sophisticated type of web hosting. This type of hosting allows you to rent an entire server yourself and have access to all its resources to host one or more websites. With dedicated hosting there is no transfer of assets or personnel to the web host. Either you or your web host owns the equipment. This is decided on a number of factors, differing from company to company. The web host typically does not take responsibility for anything other than the hosting operations. Business processes, strategic direction and debugging applications, for example, have to be managed by the customer.

Root Server hosting
Another name for Root Server hosting is Semi-managed hosting. This is a form of dedicated hosting which allows you control over your server by access to the root, while providing various benefits, such as reliable infrastructure, security and maintenance of hardware. Root Server hosting gives redundant (uninterrupted) internet connectivity and flexibility for you to choose operations systems and hardware specifications most suitable for your needs.

A Root Server is a very versatile server, where you can do whatever you wish, including hosting your own web server or mail server. Root Server hosting is intended for people who need more flexibility and customization than a managed Dedicated server.

Reseller Hosting
This type of hosting is ideal for entrepreneurs and businesses who wish to host on behalf of their own customers. Reselling web hosting services means that you can take out a contract with a web hosting provider and then sell their services on under your own brand. web hosting companies do this because they are able to sell more of their dedicated hosting space this way. The customer pays a set fee for the use of services from the web host, which they can then resell under their own brand. Different hosting companies offer different contracts and agreements.

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