Web Hosting, the technical basis of your website

Too often considered a necessary wound by our prospects, Web Hosting in Pakistan is, however, the base on which your Web project will be. He will bring reliability, speed, and security to your site, allowing your users to know a unique experience. It is, therefore, a wrong choice to prefer low-cost hosting rather than quality professional hosting. And then, it is not so expensive after all!

What is web hosting?

As we have seen, a website is a set of computer codes brought together in files. But it is also made up of texts, images, videos, and other files of different kinds. To make them visible to the public, we must store these files on a computer easily accessible to everyone (if it is not, we speak of the darknet, dark Web, or deep Web). This computer must therefore be open and connected to the global network. In this case, this computer becomes web hosting.

Why use a web host?

You could use your PC as a server. Then, all you need to do is install a Web operating system (e.g., Apache), connect it to the Web and configure your box so that Internet users can access it from the outside. But various problems will then arise for you, hence the interest in calling on a specialist.

Server configuration

The first difficulty you will encounter is the complexity of an exemplary server configuration. You don’t improvise as a network engineer, and being able to configure a server to host a website properly is a delicate operation that is far from simple.

Server availability

If you want your site to be seen by as many people as possible, you must be able to offer your visitors generous bandwidth and sufficient computing power. Indeed, do you think your visitors will become loyal if they have to wait several minutes for the first page of your site to appear on their screen? And what happens if a power outage occurs at your home? Failure? The need for maintenance? Or, more trivially, who takes care of the server during the holidays? In short, your availability time (uptime) will be meager, at most a few hours a day and a few days a year. This needs to be more clearly sufficient to claim to host a commercial site.

The security of your hosted data

Third big concern if you become your web host: is security. By opening your PC to all winds, you take a considerable risk that an ill-intentioned intruder sneaks in and steals, or destroys, everything he finds there. 

Wisdom is to use a web host.

As you have understood, it is much wiser to call on a Web Hosting in Karachi professional who will use many well-calibrated and optimized servers (in a data center) to avoid the pitfalls we have talked about. Its computers are secure, their high availability, and your data protected.

Dedicated or shared server?

It’s a good question. But first, let’s understand the difference. A shared server is a computer that will host dozens of other sites over which you have no control. At the same time, a dedicated server is a computer that will only host your website and nothing else.

Shared hosting, advantages, and disadvantages

The only advantage of shared hosting is its price. It is well understood that a server capable of hosting hundreds of sites sees its cost drop considerably. So much so that some companies do not hesitate to offer to host. Free hosting is always on a shared server. But free hosting is still “low-end” hosting.

The disadvantages, on the other hand, are numerous. Let’s talk about neighborhood issues first. In SEO, the fact that your site is technically close to another place is not neutral. If one of your co-hosts is a crazed spammer, a web admin who produces disreputable sites, or worse, the IP address you share with them will probably be blocked very quickly. The fall of his site will lead to the fall of yours. Then, you can be hosted on the same server as a large consumer of resources. In this case, your site is more modest and will suffer all the consequences (slowness, unavailability). Finally, you can share resources with an apprentice coder; the many crashes he will generate will also make your site inaccessible. In short, you understood me. I wouldn’t say I like mutualization. Finally,

Dedicated hosting, only advantages

Alright, I’m not objective. Although if! My goal is to do business on the Net, so out of my sight, three-penny hosts and winded servers. Long live war machines and mind-blowing outsourcing companies!

On a dedicated, your site is alone (even if you decide to put several, these are your sites!); it’s your machine, your configuration, your performance, and your capacity. If it crashes, it’s your fault. If it grows, it’s still your fault (or that of your service provider). It is, therefore, the royal road for a professional site with a commercial vocation.

A virtual server, cloud, VPS, and other solutions

As the world is neither white nor black, you will come across plenty of other Web Hosting solutions for your site, which I won’t go into. At ONI, we work with NEXYLAN and use a mastered pooling technique. So we can offer the best of both solutions: a reasonable price and a top-of-the-range approach.

And Google in all this?

Like your visitors, Google prefers a fast site. For efficiency reasons first. Google checks several million pages daily, so it has no time for web snails. Then if your visitors flee your area because of its slowness, Google will see it will draw the necessary conclusions: your site is not worthy of interest.