What are hostings

When considering the question of what hostings are, it is worth starting with what hosting is in general. In essence, it is a space on the web that allows the site to get its fixed place. It is not at all necessary to be a professional webmaster in order to choose a suitable hosting for your resource, since it is better to entrust such work to real professionals with experience and hundreds of successfully implemented projects.

What are the types of hosting: main classification

When choosing a suitable resource, its technical preparation, smooth operation, and understandable functionality are taken into account. Today it is customary to talk about the following types:

1) virtual (the cheapest, designed for low traffic and ease of sites);
2) virtual dedicated server (VPS hosting), where for each site there is a dedicated IP-address, and the capacities are used by one resource, which guarantees stable operation;
3) a dedicated server designed for large-scale and voluminous resources;
4) co-location - in fact, renting a computer in a separate date - the centre, differs in high cost and security.

For online stores or business card sites, they often look for hosting with php and mysql, which allows to fully satisfy requests for the placement of such content. A distinctive feature of php hosting is that it supports many extensions, has no restrictions on creating databases and is able to tie them up into a common chain. This option is interesting both for novice bloggers and for conducting electronic commercial transactions, and content management systems.

The Hostia company will help you decide on the best type of hosting, depending on the type of resource and line of business, and its specialists can, if necessary, transfer to another hosting resource without data loss, quickly, efficiently, efficiently and without failures in further work.