How web hosting works
The main process is that when your web address is typed into the address bar of your browser and presses the go button a request is send by your browser to reach that web page. This request flows across internet to a suitable web server which can locate web page on that server. If the web page has any existence then the request will be accepted and the web page will be downloaded into your own web browser.
Actually servers are powerful computers that have very large hard drives or a series of hard drives. People who are willing to have their website available over the internet, rent a space on the server located remotely..
This can be explained by an example that if you rent a space on the internet it is like having a house on the Internet. You will be assigned a distinctive address which will be related to the server address.
- By having a space on internet you can
- Upload your web files to the web server.
- It will be available on your website for downloading by other people approaching your website.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF WEB HOSTING
It is also known as virtual hosting or mass hosting. All the applications and the data which you enter in a website are placed on the server so that it could be shared with other customers who are the users of web host. The web host provider is the owner and also the manager of the server as well as of the equipment, the technicians are however available for monitoring and to manage the servers. It is a cost effective route.
In this type of web hosting one can enjoy greater authority as he can have a full individual server of his own for hosting one or many websites. In this type of hosting there is no transferring of personnel or resources to the web host. Either you will be the owner of the equipment or the web host. This is decided on the basis of many features, which are varying according to the company to company. The web host only host operations. The customer has to manage the business processes, strategic direction and debugging applications.
Root Server hosting
The root server hosting is also known as Semi-managed server, the host provider manages the hardware installation but as a client you have to handle all features other than this such as software upgrades and backups. You will have a root access or supervising access as a client which will make you the full control of doing any thing on that server.