Web Hosting FAQ

Here are a list of questions that are most frequently asked in web hosting topic. If you have other questions, please feel free to contact us, and we'll be happy to answer your questions.

What is domain name?

A domain name is a human friendly Internet address. The domain name is mapped to a numeric IP address of a computer, and represent address of a website or a mail server. A domain name must be globally unique. To learn more about domain name, please read domain name basics page.

What is web hosting?

Web hosting is referred to as providing storage space for websites, and deliver thoses contents stored on the server when requested by the Internet users. A web hosting providers, also known as the web host, is also responsible for providing databases, email services, and other value-added services for publishing a website. No website can exist without a web host.

Dedicated hosting is an unmanaged hosting service provided to one client on a dedicated server by a web host, a server leased to one client and custom configured for their specific application.

Managed hosting refers to dedicated hosting with fully managed service provided by the service provider. The provider not only takes full control over your server, but also supports hardware, software, maintenance, security, monitoring and backup services.

Colocation service is very much like a dedicated (unmanaged) hosting except that the server is provided by a client rather than the web host. A server owned by a client is placed in a data center (web host premise) for hosting services.

A virtual private server (VPS) hosting is partitioning a physical server into multiple logical servers, so that each virtual server operates independently of each other. A VPS hosting works very much like a dedicated hosting, except for physical hardware is being partitioned into finite set of resources and assigned to individual virtual servers.

A web hosting reseller purchases server spaces and bandwidth from a larger hosting company, and redistributing them to end users. The services are provided transparently to the users by the larger hosting company, so the end users do not generally know they are dealing with resellers.

Ecommerce hosting is a hosting plan that allows a client to create an online store. The hosting plan usually provide a static IP address (for SSL installation), database storage, shopping cart, merchant services and gateway services for secure online credit card transactions.