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Internet Hosting


Internet Hosting

An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content on the Internet. There are various levels of service and different kinds of services offered.
Most hosting providers offer a combined variety of services. Web hosting services also offer e-mail hosting services.
Generic, yet rather powerful, kinds of Internet hosting provide a server where the clients can run anything they want (including web servers and other servers) and have Internet connections with good upstream bandwidth.

Full-featured Internet hosting services include:

  • Dedicated hosting service, also called managed hosting service, where the hosting service provider owns and administers the machine, leasing complete control to the client. Management of the server can include monitoring to ensure the server continues to work efficiently, backup services, installation of security patches, and various levels of technical support.
  • Virtual private server, in which visualization technology is employed in small multiple logical servers to run on a single physical server
  • Co-location facilities provide just the Internet connection, uninterruptible power, and climate control, but letting the client do his system administration is the most expensive.
  • Cloud hosting, also termed time-share or on-demand hosting, is a system in which the user only pays for the system time and space used, and capacity can be quickly scaled up or down as computing requirements change.

Limited or application-specific hosting services include file, web, e-mail, DNS, and game servers.
Internet hosting services include the required Internet connection; they may charge a flat rate per month or bandwidth used — a standard payment plan is to blame for the 95th percentile bandwidth.

An Internet host can be a machine or an application connected to the Internet that has an Internet Protocol address (IP address). An IP address is used to identify every host on the Internet uniquely. Because these IP addresses are unique, they are used as the source and destination IP addresses in any IP-based communication. At the most basic level, Internet hosts fall into two categories: Servers and Clients.