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· **Standard webhosting ** - __Definition __ A web hosting service is the process of storing, managing and maintaining files for one or more websites. It is a type of internet hosting service that allows individuals and organization to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosting is companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing internet connectivity, typically in data centre. - __Advantages __ Much easier to manage, inexpensive, controllable, manageable - __Disadvantages __ If you want to change something at a higher level (like changing the control panel) you can't. You can NOT change root. - __Price __ Domain Name: $9/year Hosting: $75 to $200 a year (depending on traffic and website feature) · **Dedicated (web) hosting ** - __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Definition __ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Web hosting business, a dedicated server is typically a rented service. The user rents the server, software and an Internet connection from the Web host. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Advantages __ · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stability, reliable and secure than shared hosting services · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Not easy to get overloaded due to an excess number of website being hosted on one server. · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Not worrying of server having bad coding or scripts · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">allows a customer to customize their hosting experience · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">good performance and how well a website can serve their visitors or their own customers. · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fast and efficient <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Disadvantage __ · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Costly · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The need of depending the host to maintain the server and their hosting equipment · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">do not have physical access to the server <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cost __ · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">$1188 and above per year · **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Virtual (Web) hosting ** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Virtual hosting is the provision of Web <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">[|server] <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">[|hosting] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">services so that a company (or individual) doesn't have to purchase and maintain its own Web server and connections to the Internet. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">virtual host will provide its customers with  <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">[|domain name] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">registration, file storage and directory services for the files that Web page is built from,  <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">[|e-mail] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> services and even Web site design and creation services if the customers want someone else to build their Web sites. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some virtual hosting providers make it possible for customers to have more control of their Web site file system, e-mail names, passwords, and other resources and say that they are providing each customer a <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">[|virtual server] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- that is, a server that appears to be entirely their own server. When a customer does indeed want to have its very own server, some hosting providers allow the customer to rent a <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">[|dedicated server] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">at the hosting provider's location. If a customer is allowed to place their own purchased equipment at the provider's location, this is known as colocation <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Virtual hosting doesn't mean that customers on the same server can access each other's Websites. Customers can manage only their own section of the server, usually by using a Web-based control panel. Control over the server itself remains with the hosting provider. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Virtual hosting is usually the best and most cost-effective choice for basic hosting needs. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Because it uses only part of a server's resources, virtual hosting is cheaper than dedicated hosting. The Web-based control panel typically makes virtual hosting easier as well. __<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- Advantage __ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-- Affordable Price: since the host companies do most of the maintenance on their machines, the company hosted does not then have to hire their own technical staff or have to visit dealers for repairs when things go wrong. This helps cut down greatly on personnel costs. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-- Provides enough disk space, bandwidth and functionality __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- Disadvantage __ <span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-- Every website shares the operating system there is the possibility that what your website needs to use may not be there for actual usage <span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-- <span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If there is a problem with one website, it is likely that all websites on that server will also deal with an issue. __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- Cost __ <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shared (Web) hosting ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- General Info - own partition, share section on the server - hosting provider in charge of managing, installing, security, maintenance, and technical support of the server - Most servers based on Linux operating system, LAMP - Wide-ranging for shared hosting providers - function through 'pay per click' advertising - Price Range: $2.49-$11.99 per month - Server can be made through either IP-based or name-based
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Compare the following hosting option: **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Web-based control panel system ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> - cPanel - DirectAdmin - Plesk - InterWorx - H-Sphere

__- Advantages__ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> - most economical option - Reliable quality of the host - sharing the overall cost of server maintenance

__- Disadvantages__ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> - no control over the server - restriction to extensive software usage - usage limits <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-inexpensive <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- controllable <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- manageable || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-If you want to change something at a higher level (like changing the control panel) you can't. You can NOT change root. || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">$75 to $200 || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unlimited  ||   || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-Not easy to get overloaded due to an excess number of website being hosted on one server. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-Not worrying of server having bad coding or scripts <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-allows a customer to customize their hosting experience <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-good performance and how well a website can serve their visitors or their own customers. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-Fast and efficient || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-Costly <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-The need of depending the host to maintain the server and their hosting equipment <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-do not have physical access to the server || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">$1188  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unlimited (Depend of the cost)  ||   || <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-- Provides enough disk space, bandwidth and functionality  ||  <span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-- Every website shares the operating system there is the possibility that what your website needs to use may not be there for actual usage <span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-- <span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If there is a problem with one website, it is likely that all websites on that server will also deal with an issue. || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">$348-$539.40 || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unlimited (Depend of the cost)  ||   || - Reliable quality of the host - sharing the overall cost of server maintenance
 * || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Definition || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Advantages  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Disadvantages  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cost per yr  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">space  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Server Management  ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Standard webhosting || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A web hosting service is the process of storing, managing and maintaining files for one or more websites. It is a type of internet hosting service that allows individuals and organization to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosting is companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing internet connectivity, typically in data centre.  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-Much easier to manage
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dedicated (web) hosting || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dedicated server is typically a rented service. The user rents the server, software and an Internet connection from the Web host.  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-Stability, reliable and secure than shared hosting services
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Virtual (Web) hosting ||  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Virtual hosting is the provision of Web  <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">[|server] <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">[|hosting] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">services so that a company (or individual) doesn't have to purchase and maintain its own Web server and connections to the Internet.   ||  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">-- Affordable Price: since the host companies do most of the maintenance on their machines, the company hosted does not then have to hire their own technical staff or have to visit dealers for repairs when things go wrong. This helps cut down greatly on personnel costs.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shared (Web) hosting || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">own partition, share section on the server  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- most economical option

|| <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- no control over the server - restriction to extensive software usage - usage limits || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">$29.88-$143.88  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">300GB to unlimited  ||   ||