Before many Internet users, both experienced masters, and beginning developers, there is a problem of the choice defined a hosting site for the website. Great variety of the hostings competing among themselves almost does not give chances to make it quickly and simply. Therefore it is extremely important to know the main differences among popular hosting providers and also differences in services of a hosting, the virtual server and the dedicated server.
It is required to you
- - computer or phone;
- - Internet;
- - web browser;
- - search engine;
- - sheet of paper and the handle (for notes).
Instruction
1. Define own requirement.
It is necessary to understand what requirements your website imposes to a hosting, namely:
- how many it is necessary disk space;
- on how many the website ""heavy"" (exacting to the processor);
- how many it is necessary for you databases;
- what nature of content of the website;
- what programming languages the hosting should support.
Proceeding from it, it will become clear that you wait from a hosting.
2. Define necessary service. It is important to understand where it will be better to place yours of the website. Classically it can be:
- hosting (simple management, easy setup, low cost);
- the virtual server, or VPS (it is difficult in management, it is more than resources, the cost is higher);
- the dedicated server (it is difficult in management, the most expensive of all services is suitable for the ""heaviest"" websites).
Let's consider differences between them in more detail.
3. Hosting. Is suitable for beginners.
It is the most popular location mode of websites. Having the low cost and ease of administration, the hosting allows any, even not experienced person, to post online the website. It is possible to refer not high flexibility of setup for difficult web applications to minuses and the small resources selected by a hosting.
Technically, the hosting is the one physical server on which it is started one operating system servicing a set of the websites of different clients.
4. Virtual server (VPS). Is suitable for experienced users.
Is more expensive, than a normal hosting, but, at the same time, provides big flexibility of a software setup. In fact, you ""from scratch"" configure the virtual server, completely configure it and select as it will work. At the same time, for VPS the hosting selects more resources, thus, it can service more exacting websites.
Technically, the virtual server (VPS) is a physical server on which the set of the isolated operating systems of different clients is started.
5. Dedicated server (dedik, dedicated server). Is suitable only for experienced users and extremely exacting projects.
The dedicated server is a physical server which you rent only under the needs. That is nobody, except you, can manage it (except for the staff of hosting provider) and to get access to it. The server works only for you and for anybody more. The most expensive option of placement of the websites, but, at the same time, the most suitable for the superloaded web applications.
6. Select a hosting.
After you understand that it is necessary for you, you can begin to look for the most suitable solution for yourself. In fact to select a hosting not such complex business, just you need to evaluate each option by certain criteria to understand on how many it suits you.
These criteria can be the following:
- the country of finding of servers (the server will be closer to visitors of the website, the quicker it will ""give"" them content);
- the cost of service and the provided computing resources (disk space, the processor, random access memory, quantity of a DB and the websites for placement, the Internet channel width, existence of a backup system and other);
- convenience and study of the control panel of a hosting;
- support of necessary programming languages;
- existence of the free trial period for testing of a hosting.