What is Hosting? How to choose Hosting to both optimize costs and ensure the operation of online systems for businesses?What is Hosting? How to choose Hosting to both optimize costs and ensure the operation of online systems for businesses?

Hosting is an online service that stores and contains all website data files such as: Articles, images, videos, source code… No website can operate without being linked to a hosting service. But this is also an issue that most business owners and store owners do not understand well and have little experience in, often leaving it to… acquaintances or employees to handle.

First of all, Future Horizon will explain the concepts, then will provide useful advice when choosing hosting for your business!

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What is Hosting? How is hosting different from domain name?

Hosting is where all the website's data files are stored such as: Articles, images, videos, source code… Hosting can be located at your home, your company (Local Hosting), or on servers in the “cloud”, which we also call Cloud Hosting.

For example, Hosting is like a house, and the images, videos, and products on your website will be tables, chairs, picture frames, goods,… located in the house. This is easy to understand, right?

From a technical perspective, you can understand Hosting as a server – like a physical computer that runs throughout so your website can always operate at all times for everyone to access.

For example, hosting is required for websites like Future Horizon can only operate & you can access and read instructions like this.

Domain name (Domain) and Hosting are two completely different products. But you need both to be able to make a website:

• Hosting: As a “house”, where your “furniture and goods” are stored, you have to pay monthly/yearly rent or buy them outright (I will mention this later). Server – Server at the end of the article)
• Domain: The address for others to access your website must be purchased by year (many years) and this address can only be owned by ONLY ONE PERSON/ORGANIZATION, and no one can take it back if you have purchased and registered according to the correct procedure.

Without a domain name, there will be no way to find the website, and vice versa, without hosting, you will have no place to store data, and the website will not run.

How does hosting work?

Hosting is essentially a pre-programmed machine, so there are almost instructions for how to use it online.

After you rent hosting, you will access the management area of that hosting. Please refer to the Hosting interfaces that Horizon Future has been using and deploying to customers at the company:

Each hosting will have different administration interfaces, and depending on the technician's knowledge and habits – they will choose the Hosting that suits their skills.

Popular types of hosting today

The most popular web hosting providers today have many types of hosting to meet many purposes of both basic and advanced users. As mentioned above, the current choice of hosting for businesses depends a lot on the team in charge of IT infrastructure at the business, which leads to higher costs than the current needs of the business.

See more about How to manage server resources at your business to optimize your IT infrastructure budget.

The most common types of hosting are:

1) Shared Hosting: Most popular & you can start with this one.

Shared Hosting can be understood as a web hosting service package where many websites are located on a web server connected to the internet.

In addition, you can also understand that the hosting provider will divide the resources placed in the server's data center to serve the server. many users at the same time.

• Advantages: Suitable for small websites with little information;
• Disadvantages: Can be slow during peak hours, not suitable for sales websites with lots of information and many products

2) WordPress Hosting: Also relatively popular for website builders using WordPress

Similar to Shared Hosting, but WordPress Hosting is optimized specifically for WordPress websites to bring the best experience to websites using WordPress as a development platform.

• Advantages: Suitable for news and small sales websites designed with WordPress;
• Disadvantages: Not compatible with other Open-source (Open source development); Hardware power is not too superior to Shared Hosting (Because essentially it is still Shared-Hosting optimized for WordPress)

3) VPS: Virtual server, more powerful than shared hosting, but not for beginners.

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server (virtual private server). A VPS is similar to a shared host, that is, there are many VPSs placed on the same physical server, serving the needs of large websites, but the cost of buying a VPS is higher than a shared host.

The cost of a VPS virtual server is higher than that of a shared host because shared host packages share resources from a physical server with very low allowed resources.

Unlike Hosting, which is often sold with a Panel (like an administration page for the website system), VPS is usually not sold with a management panel, so it requires expertise as well as costs to manage and operate.

• Advantages: Suitable for average sales websites; Runs in many languages, Open-source; Resources are allocated specifically for you.
• Disadvantages: Not suitable for people without experience; High cost of renting or purchasing management panels;

4) Dedicated Server: Separate server, more powerful than VPS, you manage almost everything related to IT resources. This is the highest level of management for businesses that do not specialize in information technology.

• Advantages: Ability to upgrade and expand unlimitedly depending on the needs of the company's infrastructure system.
• Disadvantages: Requires strict, detailed management and a clear understanding of the IT structure and apparatus at the enterprise.

For beginners, it is advisable to start making your own website without many technical difficulties Get started with Shared Hosting.

Shared hosting means that the main server will be divided into many resource clusters, you will own one resource cluster, and the other clusters will be for other customers.

When your website grows over time, has a large amount of data on the site and high traffic, you need hosting with larger bandwidth. Or when generating huge income, you can consider switching to VPS or Dedicated Server.

Paid hosting & free hosting: Which one should you use?

After understanding the types of hosting, the question now is: Which hosting should I use and what proportion of the cost of hosting will be in the IT budget at the business?

Many of you may wonder, why not use free hosting (Price 0 VND) like 000webhost but have to use paid hosting packages or expensive VPS/Dedicated Server?

You should note that free hosting has countless disadvantages:

• Very low configuration: This means your website will run extremely slowly because the resources are limited and shared with hundreds, thousands of people (also free to use like you).
• Not supported when something goes wrong: If you encounter any problems, you will have to bear it or handle it yourself. Because this is a free service, the providers will not allocate personnel to support.
• Asking you to upgrade or imposing a free period: Many times the provider itself causes the above discomforts, requiring you to upgrade to continue using; There is no such thing as a free delicious meal, so always be mentally prepared when one “nice” day the provider ends the free Hosting package for some random reason.

Conclude

Website is like your “home” on the Internet. Therefore, always be wise to choose the best foundation from which to build your brand and business further and develop further. Hopefully this article has helped you visualize and clearly understand the concept of hosting, how it works and some useful advice. If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section below.