Web hosting allows us to make our own website and put it up on the world wide web. Various service providers help us to this by leasing out places on their server. Any additional service from their behalf comes with extra charges and fees. Although there are a couple of providers who still provide free personal web hosting services, the features are very limited.
The most popularly known paid web hosting services are the “shared hosting” and “dedicated hosting”. However there are various other types of services available to us as well.
Cloud Hosting:
Although many people may not be aware of this service, it has been a topic of discussion for some time now. A cloud web hosting server will allow users to host their website in multiple connected servers, which makes the processing power, the reach, the service, etc – “unlimited”. Expansion becomes extremely easy and there are very few limitations involved. You do not have to worry about switching from one server to another, and server crashes will not affect the performance of your website at all.
The cost for cloud web hosting is also extremely reasonable, you only pay for the service based on the computing power you have consumed over a period of time. In simple words, it is like you electric bill.
Clustered Hosting:
Clustered Web Hosting allows the user to spread the load of the website across multiple physical machines, which are also known as “nodes”. Multiple front-end servers with various back-end database servers allows the user to setup and operate large websites with ease, making it more reachable among consumers.
Most web hosting services rely on single physical machine, which may also become a single point of failure. Clustered Web Hosting decreases the possibility of these failures and interruption and are therefore more reliable.
Grid Hosting:
A more loosely coupled and geographically dispersed type of web hosting service, Grid Computing involves a large number of files. It is a combination of various computing resources from multiple domains, which is usually aimed towards specialized applications. It is a type of parallel computing that is reliable upon complete computers that have all the components along with being connected to a reliable network.
Various software are used to construct a Grid Web Hosting service and the size of it may vary, depending upon the requirements of the user. It can also be constructed across various companies and networks.
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