Web Hosting

Question 1

What are websites and files stored on?

Answer 1

Web servers located in data centers

Question 2

What service do developers use to launch web sites to the internet?

Answer 2

Web hosting

Question 3

What is web hosting?

Answer 3

A service where you place your website and files on hosting companies web server (renting space in return for stable and secure storage)

Question 4

What are 4 different types of hosting options?

Answer 4

Shared Hosting
Virtual Private Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
Cloud Hosting

Question 5

What is the cheapest form of web hosting and describe it. What is this web hosting best for?
What do developers use this for?

Answer 5

*Shared Hosting
*You pay for a location on a web server containing many web hosting accounts w/ shared hosting
*You share service processing power, memory, bandwidth w/ other websites; may slow performance
*Best for small website w/ small # of visitors
*Developers use this as low-cost sandbox environment to practice deploying or hosting their personal websites
*Some companies offer free shared hosting, w/ limitations + ads

Question 6

What is Virtual Private Surface Hosting?
What is it used for?
What does it run on?
Is it more expensive that shared hosting?

Answer 6

Sites w/ more considerable demands use this hosting option
*It has a dedicated CPU, memory, and bandwidth resources
*Runs on a hardware server w/ other VPS instances, but as resources are fixed, your website isn’t likely to be impacted by competing VPS instances
*More expensive than shared

Question 7

What is dedicated hosting?

Answer 7

Where a hardware server is dedicated to you only.
*All hardware, CPU, memory, and bandwidth resources are yours to use only.
*More expensive than VPS hosting

Question 8

Cloud Hosting

Answer 8

*A Growing popular form of hosting
*Website is run in a cloud environment which spans across multiple physical and virtual servers