WHAT IS WEBSITE HOSTING? EXPLAINED IN SIMPLE WORDS

Table of Contents
• What Is Website Hosting?
• Why Do Website Need Hosting
• Common Types of Websites Hosting You Should Know

You will be learning what is web hosting in this guide today and also types of web hosting and others, that is everything will be covered in this guide. So, whatever that you are learning here, just don’t take it for granted because you are learning from someone who is an expert in the tech field and have been able build difference things and also train some new people like you online. So now I will start by teaching you what website hosting is.

WHAT IS WEBSITE HOSTING?

Now based on the name “website hosting”, hosting is like storing, accommodating or keeping something. In the terms of website hosting, it is a service that allow your website to be stored on the internet in order for people to be able to access it anytime. Like now, you are done creating your website on your phone or laptop (device) which the website contains files like text, image, code or videos and you then need a place where the website will stay. A company which hosts website for people will now have to provide a space online on their computer (server) that will store those your files and show it to people when they type your website link or address in their browser, and those companies are called Hosting Company Providers or Hosting Providers. In general, I will tell you that website hosting is where your website lives online.

WHY DO WEBSITE NEED HOSTING

one of the reasons that a website will need hosting is that without hosting, a website cannot be seen on the internet because there is no provided space for the website files to exist online. Some of the reason that a website will need hosting are; (1) To be available online: as I already told you that hosting is like storing your files online on a server that has been provided by those Company hosting providers so that anyone can access it from anywhere around the world. (2) To store website files: your website needs a place to live, so hosting provides that storage where you can put your images, videos, text, folders or website code. (3) To improve speed and performance: a good hosting will help your website to be able to load faster, which is important for users and also SEO. (4) For security and backup: A hosting service helps you to protect your website from attacks and losing of data by providing security and backup features. (5) To make website Run always: Hosting providers will help you to keep your website running all the time and why is because the hosting companies will keep servers powered on always, so that nobody website will go offline.

These is some of the reasons that you will need a hosting and imagine that you have a website and no one is able to see or access your website online, that means you just build that website for only yourself as it is on your computer, which the best is hosting it and making it available for everyone to be able to access it online with their device. To generalize it, I will say that no hosting is no website online.

COMMON TYPES OF WEBSITES HOSTING YOU SHOULD KNOW

There are many and various types of website hosting that you should know as a beginner and I will be teaching and explaining some of them to you and also how they work. Let us start now, these are some of the common types of website hosting; (1) Shared Hosting: this type of website hosting is very affordable and easy to manage and it is good for beginners or if your website is still a small website. Using this type of hosting is that your website shares a server (storage or space) with other websites. And the little consequences that you might face is that if your website or other website use too many resources then your website loading speed will be slower. (2) VPS Hosting (Virtual Private Server): this type of website hosting is more expensive than the shared hosting but it has also some features that is better than the shared hosting, like if you are using the VPS hosting then your website will have its own section of a server and it is not shared with other website. And also using the VPS hosting is that you have more control and also better performance than the shared hosting. One of the good things about VPS type of hosting is that it is faster, more reliable and scalable. But it will be a little consequence for you as a beginner because it will need some basic tech knowledge and also it is more expensive for you as a beginner online. (3) Dedicated Hosting: this type of hosting is also a bit higher than the VPS hosting because you will get an entire server just for your own website and this is really good because you are getting all the storage alone for your website. And it is also best for large website with heavy visitors or people coming to the website, but for you that is just building your website you might not need this type of hosting at the starting point but with time you can upgrade it to this dedicated hosting when your website becomes large with many people visiting the website. One of the benefits of this type of website is that you will enjoy speed, control and security at the maximum level. And the little consequence for you as a beginner that will want to try this type of hosting is that it is more expensive and requires technical knowledge. (4) WordPress Hosting: this type of hosting is optimized for people that are using WordPress to build or create that website and it often includes some installed WordPress features. And one of the benefits of it is that it is easy to set up and also optimized it for WordPress performance but the little consequence is that it is usually more expensive that shared hosting. (5) Cloud Hosting: this type of hosting is flexible and good for website that are still growing but the consequence that you might face is that it is more expensive depending on the usage. With this type of hosting, your website will use resources from multiple servers in the cloud.

With this teaching and explanation that I have done for you today, I know that you must have really understand everything about website hosting, why your website need hosting and also some of the type of hosting, and what you can do to learn more from me is to always visit our blog and also you can come to our newbietools homepage to get tools that you can use online as a beginner online.