Choosing a server for your website

Posted by chiefhosting on May 30th, 2014

With everything turning the electronic way, it may be the time for you to consider whether you will flow with the current or choose your own path. Joining the electronic world maybe the best option but are you ready for the challenges that come with it? With this, you definitely will reach a point where a website is a must have requirement. Do you choose a dedicated server, a virtual server or a hybrid server?

This decision might seem simple but it has an adverse effect on the future operations of your website. If for example you choose a dedicated hosting service over the others, there are also a variety of companies ready to offer their services to you and here again is another dilemma of choosing between let’s say a Windows dedicated server over the other numerous options. Just to give a brief over view, these servers are like stand-alone servers which are fully dedicated to that single company or organization. The entire server is leased to a single client who has total control of the server and he gets to choose the whether he needs any form of administrative and/or engineering support from the service provider. Since the client has full control, they also can choose the hardware and software accompaniments including the operating systems of the server and therefore can customize it as they deem suitable.

As much as they are suitable, it is quite expensive to get a dedicated hosting service from reputable companies. Apart from Windows, Linux dedicated servers are also available and are among the top selling. Dedicated hosting offers high security, high performance and stability and control over the emails. Because of the expenses associated with it, it is only affordable to companies that handle huge data exploits and large traffic.

The other kind of web hosting is the cloud hosting. This service pulls its sources from a number of servers which are usually considered as virtual since although they are present somewhere; they are not actually on site and thus are kind of imaginary. A number of servers are usually assigned to the task here and these servers are used by many clients at a go. The main challenge in this case is the security of your website. To eliminate security threats, an SSL certificate is usually issued for secure transactions within trusted web servers. Hybrid servers utilize the services of the above mentioned servers simultaneously.