Introduction:

While web hosting is a service that makes websites accessible over the internet, a web server is a device that stores website files so they’re accessible online. In this article, we’ll define what they are, the types of web hosting and web servers, and the differences between them.

WHAT IS WEB HOSTING?

When a facilitating supplier distributes space on a web server for a site to store its records, they are facilitating a site. Web facilitating makes the records that contain a site (code, pictures, etc.) accessible for seeing online. Every website you’ve ever visited is hosted on a server.

They keep the server functional 24/7, secure website files, and ensure that data, such as photos, texts, and other files, are successfully transmitted to browsers.

TYPES OF WEB HOSTING:

DEDICATED HOSTING

In Dedicated Hosting, a physical server is dedicated to a customer. 

SHARED HOSTING

It distributes the resources to accommodate, serve, and operate more than one website. Thus, making it the cheapest web hosting service.

CLOUD HOSTING

Cloud Hosting makes websites as well as applications accessible using cloud resources. Unlike traditional hosting, Cloud Hosting is a network of connected physical and virtual cloud servers that host websites or applications. This ensures greater scalability and flexibility compared to deploying solutions on a single server.

MANAGED HOSTING

Managed web hosting services are offered by several hosting providers selling Dedicated Hosting plans. In this type of hosting, the provider helps you set up your server, migrate from your old server, and maintain your server while you host with them.

What do you mean by web server?

A web server is software and hardware that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and other protocols to respond to client requests made over the World Wide Web. The main job of a web server is to display website content by storing, processing, and delivering web pages to users

STATIC WEB SERVER

A static web server, or stack, has a computer (hardware) with an HTTP server (software). It is called “static” because the server sends the hosted files (as it is) to your browser.

DYNAMIC WEB SERVER

A dynamic web server, on the other hand, has a static web server and extra software, usually a database and an application server. It is called “dynamic” because the application server updates hosted files before sending them to the browser through the HTTP server.

TYPES OF WEB SERVERS

There are various common types of web servers available, such as:

APACHE HTTP SERVER

It is an open-source and free web server for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, and other operating systems developed by Apache Software Foundation. It needs the Apache license.

MICROSOFT INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES (IIS)

It is flexible, secure, and manageable, and is used widely. IIS is developed by Microsoft for the Microsoft platforms that run on Windows. Syestem for serving the requested HTML pages or files.

NGINX

Pronounced as “engine X”, it is a popular open-source web server for administrators because of its scalability and light resource utilization. Nginx can handle various concurrent sessions because of its event-driven architecture.

LIGHT TPD

It is a free web server that comes with the FreeBSD operating system. Lighttpd is seen as secure and fast and consumes less CPU power.

SUN JAVA SYSTEM WEB SERVER:

A free web server from Sun Microsystems that can run on Linux, Windows, and Unix. 

The leading web servers include Apache, Microsoft IIS, and Nginx. Other web servers include Google Web Server, Novell’s NetWare server, and IBM’s family of Domino servers.