What is a Web Hosting? Types of Web Hosting Services.

Web hosting is a service that serves your website to anyone that visits it and is provided by a web hosting provider such as ETNHost. This service allows people to have access to a certain amount of the resources of a server (sometimes even the entire server), connected to the world wide web and thus being able to have their page/ website available to the public 24/7.  

Types of Web Hosting :

1) Shared Web Hosting Service

Summarized Characteristics:

• the most common type of web hosting service
• resources shared with other clients
• managed by the provider (technical support; security and software updates)

2) Reseller Web Hosting Service

Summarized Characteristics:

• the client becomes a web hosting provider 
• the reseller sets the prices and the plans for their clients, within the resources provided by the initial web hosting company
• the clients of the reseller are only clients to them and not to the wholesaler company

3) Virtual Private Server

Summarized Characteristics:

Virtual machines that are equivalent to a dedicated physical server

• managed service- the service provider manages the server in terms of system administration.
• unmanaged – the client is in charge of the server's system administration, technical support and so on.

4) Dedicated Server

Summarized Characteristics:

• the client has access to an entire server and its full resources.
• offers a larger scale of control, security, and higher performance.

5) Cloud Hosting

Summarized Characteristics:

• it's more of a service, rather than a physical product, where the websites are placed on a virtual server, that shares resources with other virtual servers.
• the client can pay to receive a certain amount of resources, but can have access to more, if the website demands it at a certain time.