{"id":3234,"date":"2008-08-17T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/17\/recent-advances-in-web-hosting\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T12:20:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T17:20:50","slug":"recent-advances-in-web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3234","title":{"rendered":"Recent Advances in Web Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Matt Hedges<\/div>\n

With the dot com boom, website hosting<\/a> became a necessity for all the companies regardless of size and capacity. It has also become a latest craze for the individuals who are internet savvy and love to share information with other people on the internet. Web Hosting<\/a> thus fast grew as a service that provides individuals, organizations and users with online systems so that they can interact with others, promote their products, share information, images and videos. The Web Hosting is supported by the Web Hosting platforms – the operating systems. There have been lots of recent advancements in Web Hosting and the Web Hosts are continuously striving to offer their clients with the latest and the most upgraded technologies.<\/p>\n

Web Hosting Platforms – what are they?<\/p>\n

The two main types of web hosting platforms are the Windows and Linux systems and these are the operating systems that are used to support the hosting of websites.<\/p>\n

Linux can be seen as the older and standard type of web hosting platform. Linux is seen as very reliable and is able to utilize its disk space and memory effectively. It is said that in excess of 70% of web servers use the Linux \/ Unix system because it is cheap and has fantastic power and can be relied upon.<\/p>\n

Windows is the response of Microsoft to provide to web hosting and is rising in popularity all the time with many web developers. This is because it utilizes ASP and ASP.NET. It is also true that the Window operating system works very well with other .NET sever systems like:<\/p>\n

* Commerce Server 2002<\/p>\n

* Commerce Server 2002<\/p>\n

* SQL Server 2000<\/p>\n

Web Hosting packages used to be bundled with only the minimum features but many of these features are vital to the package and they include:<\/p>\n

* Space available on the Disk – Each and every web hosting account contains a finite amount of disk space that can be utilized by a customer to place all their files on. The total size offered on the disk varies by firm and by each individual package. Potential clients should be aware that the disk space offered by a shared web host will be smaller than the space offered by a customized host.<\/p>\n

Email Accounts – The Web Hosting package allows a certain number of email accounts depending upon the price of the package. The email accounts are a common feature of hosting, particularly while hosting a domain. There are some Web hosts that let their customers have control over their mail settings. Other hosts will do all the set up for the clients. The configuration of the email accounts is a matter of personal preference but however there are basically four main types of mail accounts – POP3, forwarding, aliases and auto responders.<\/p>\n

FTP Access – Another common feature of all the paid hosting accounts is the FTP access. The FTP programs allow the users to upload files, edit and delete the contents on the server much more quickly than using a web-based interface.<\/p>\n

Progression in modern Web Hosting:<\/p>\n

People and companies always require more and as technology advances and the internet becomes stronger, there is always going to be further demand for new and more impressive technologies.<\/p>\n

What is available today is seen as the best performing environment with regards to servers and a lot of this is due to the improvements in Windows Server technology and the Windows 2003 Server. This advance provides exceptional support for developers and Microsoft is fully behind its continual development and improvement.<\/p>\n

These improvements have meant that Windows and Linux are closer and there are instances of inter-operability between the two. Previously, each system has distinct advantages over the other but now there is not the same distinction between the two. This means that which system is offered by a host is not as important to a client as it once was. The majority of clients today are able to base their web his decision of features and factors if the company itself as opposed to the operating system they use.<\/p>\n

Web hosting software<\/p>\n

The development of the new Web hosting software is the recent advancement in the Web Hosting field. This software makes Web Hosting more efficient and effective. They are available to assist in the functioning of Web Hosting in the following ways:<\/p>\n

* Enabling account setup to be done automatically<\/p>\n

* Allowing users a better quality of management with regards their dedicated servers<\/p>\n

* Making many tasks able to be automated allowing administrators increased time to work on other issues.<\/p>\n

The software helps the companies in more than one ways. By opting for and hosting the automation software, the management of the dedicated server becomes easy to control and the provisioning of resources comes down from hours to minutes.<\/p>\n

Dedicated server software for Windows include: The Windows dedicated server software are Plesk for Windows, Easy Admin Exchange Control Panel and Helm for Windows. Other server software for Windows includes Cold Fusion MX and Anti Virus & Security Software.<\/p>\n

The Linux dedicated server software are centOS Linux, Red Hat Enterprise, cPanel \/ Web Host Manager, Fantastico De Luxe, Plesk for Linux, Anti Virus Software and Security Software.<\/p>\n

> Web Hosting and Voice over Internet Protocol technology<\/p>\n

Like any growing industry, Web Hosting is creating new technologies to provide a better service to their customers. Due to the competition in the market there is a need for firms to provide improved services and one of the areas of advancement is Voice over Internet Protocol and this technology has been widely used in the web hosting industry. Basically, this technology enables people with a broadband internet connection on their computer to communicate with other people around the world without having to pay the usually associated high costs.<\/p>\n

The service providers have discovered that the VoIP can add a new, and often very appropriate, dimension to their services without much difficulty. The VOIP companies are coming up in great numbers in hopes of cashing in on the rather new industry.<\/p>\n

The Web hosting industry is not far behind and is beginning to follow suit. Many of the top rated Web Hosts have come up with the plan to launch VOIPo, a VOIP telephone service. The hosting provider hopes to extend this offer to all over the world.<\/p>\n

The Launch of Virtual Rack:<\/p>\n

A popular Web Host has come up with a “virtual rack” solution, which is designed to make the features of its popular private rack solution available to customers running as few as two servers. The main aim of launching the private rack product to provide the customers with complete customization on there web hosting.<\/p>\n

Once the customers are in a private rack, they can pick the servers they want. They can also pick which advanced network and security technologies they prefer, whether it’s advanced firewall from the line of Cisco ASA firewalls or load balancers from server iron. With Virtual Rack, the customers can tell the Web Hosts how they would like their configuration to be, and exactly what IP arrangement they want.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that the advances and improvements in Web Hosting have greatly increased the efficiency and effectiveness of the industry. All of these steps have played a part in fulfilling customer needs and serving the consumer purposes in a far better manner and one which may have exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
This article is published with permission from http:\/\/www.webhostingmadness.com, a provider of web hosting company reviews<\/a>, articles and helpful guides on web hosting.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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