Virtual hosting

Virtual hosting is the what is also known in the industry as “Hosting". A web host provider allocates a certain amount disk space on their servers, which are similar to hard drives on steroids. Virtual hosting allows you to focus on the things you do best in your business and allow the hosting experts to handle the rest. You simply need to generate the hard data, like: Pricing for your products and services, web content, company information, photos, flash images. Once you have designed your site, you simply transfer your data to the space reserved on their server vie FTP (File Transfer Protocol) It’s as easy as 1,2,3.

Virtual Unix hosting

So, what is virtual Unix hosting? Unix is software that was developed in the beginning days of the Internet, which handles the communication between servers and the World Wide Web. Unix is freely distributed and readily available to all administrators and developers alike. The newest version of UNIX includes cross platform capabilities that allow it to be compatible with Windows suite of development programs. This new version is known as Linux.

What does this mean to me?

Not a whole lot. If you are not running your own data center or managing your own server, then let the professionals worry about it. Nowadays, web hosting companies provide easy to use and navigate, control panels. These control panels have pre-programmed scripts that allow you to change the look and feel of your website in matter of minutes. Want to change the color of your site. Want a blog on your site or chartroom, what about live chat or a shopping cart. These are all value added services that web-hosting companies are offering as part of their basic hosting package.

Virtual hosting, Virtual Linux hosting or whatever else you want to call it. If you’re not a computer programmer and are simply seeking to get your business listed on the web, then don’t worry about it. Focus on finding yourself a reliable web site hosting company that can offer the customer support and service that you need.

Now if you want to talk about Virtual Dedicated hosting, that’s a different story. This is the process of separating the server into segments that improve security and reliability. But if your seeking to spend $5 per month on a web hosting service, then Virtual Dedicated Hosting isn’t something you will need to know about until you start getting 100,000 unique visitors per day.