This document serves as an ultimate guide to web hosting, explaining its purpose and the different types of hosting services available, such as shared, dedicated, VPS, and cloud-based options. It also outlines popular web hosting providers, including GoDaddy, Bluehost, HostGator, SiteGround, InMotion, Namecheap, and LeafLeech, detailing their features and strengths. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of choosing the right hosting solution based on website needs and budget.

1. Web Hosting Ultimate Guide
Presented by Leafleech.com

2. What Is Web Hosting?
Web hosting is the service that makes your website available to be viewed
by others on the Internet. A web host provides space on its server, so that
other computers around the world can access your website by means of a
network or modem. There are literally thousands of web hosting services
available today, ranging from free services with limited options to expensive,
specialized business web hosting services. Which option you choose
depends primarily on how you plan to use your website and how much you
want to spend.

3. How Web Hosting Works?

4. Different Types of Hosting

5. Shared Hosting
 With shared hosting, several web hosting customers share the same
computer. All of the websites of all the different accounts are stored in the
same drive, processed by the same CPU, and delivered by the same web
server.
 It’s easy to see why this is less expensive than other options. The hosting
company is allocating relatively few resources to you.

6. Dedicated Server Hosting
 With dedicated server hosting, you have complete control over an entire
server. This has many advantages, but it is also more expensive and more
complicated.
 When you have direct and complete access to the server that is running your
website, you can install any kind of niche software you like, make changes to
the operating system or language interpreters, tweak configuration settings.
For certain applications, like running an enterprise management system or
building custom software, you need this level of control.

7. Virtual Private Server (VPS)
 Somewhere between shared hosting and dedicated hosting (one account on a
server), is Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. In this model you have your own
dedicated server, but the server is a virtual machine, not a physical one.
 This provides a mix of the benefits (and disadvantages) of both shared and dedicated
hosting plans.
 With VPS hosting, you have complete control over the environment, just as you would
with a dedicated server. This is especially helpful if you are developing custom
applications or are running a SaaS (software-as-as-service) business.

8. Scalable Cloud-based VPS Hosting
 The problem with both dedicated servers and conventional VPS and shared
hosting plans is that eventually — if there’s enough traffic — you will hit the
physical limitations of the actual server. We’re talking about a real machine with
real limitations on how much memory it can use, how much storage it can hold,
and how many requests it can handle.
 Most websites never hit these limits, and shared or VPS hosting is more than
adequate. But some sites regularly get tens of thousands of visits a day, and
other sites with less regular traffic occasionally have huge spikes that can’t be
predicted, like when a piece of content suddenly goes viral.

9.  Because of these hosting realities, hosting companies offer something that
usually goes by a name like “scalable VPS hosting” or “cloud based hosting” or
“scalable cloud-based hosting.”
 “The Cloud” is sort of a marketing fiction, and sort of a metaphor. It’s easy to get
confused about what this means. The truth is, it means different things in
different contexts.
 Generally, with regards to web hosting, “cloud” means that a large number of
computers are all clustered together, and any applications running on them can
make use of their combined computing resources.
 With this type of hosting, your Virtual Private Server isn’t one of several on a
single server. Rather, it is one of hundreds all sharing a giant pool of computing
resources.
 Typically, hosting companies try to keep the average level of resource use well
within the limits of the actual amount of computing power on-hand. This might be
as low as 50%. If there is a sudden increase is use because one site has a spike
in traffic, overall usage spikes but stays within what the system as a whole can
handle.
 This works well for sites as they grow over time, also. The hosting company adds
more computing resources, or reorganizes how the virtual machines are
deployed on the system, in order to maintain optimum performance as each
site’s usage profile evolves.
Scalable Cloud-based VPS Hosting

10. Managed Hosting
 If you need the bandwidth and power of a VPS or Dedicated Server, but don’t have
the technical skills (or the inclination) to do serious server administration, you can get
a managed hosting plan.
 Managed hosting is a term that covers a lot of different types of plans, but what they
all have in common is that the hosting company provides some sort of proactive
technical support. This might be as simple as pre-installing software and helping with
initial configuration, to ongoing monitoring and upgrading.

11. Top Web Hosting Providers

12.  GoDaddy is exceptionally well-known in the hosting space — deemed the World's #1 Domain
Name Registrar. They make it incredibly easy and affordable for folks to choose a domain name,
sign up for hosting, and start building their online business or personal web property. While known
for their domain, email, and shared hosting services, GoDaddy offers options for virtual and
dedicated servers as well. They make the upgrade process as seamless as possible, so you
shouldn't shy away from scaling your site as your business needs grow.
 The user control options are pretty popular in the hosting space: your choice between the easy-to-
use cPanel or Plesk control panels, plus Root (administrative) access for more tech-savvy
customers. If you're particularly interested in webmail, GoDaddy offers their GoDaddy Workspace
feature, an intuitive interface for keeping up with the unlimited email accounts you have available
to you as a customer. All of this can be easily accessed and secured with your GoDaddy login info
that you receive upon sign-up.
 Features:
 Industry-leading load times
 Award-winning support and security
 World's #1 Domain Name Registrar
 Choice of cPanel or Plesk included
 99.9% uptime guaranteed
Site Link: https://sg.godaddy.com

13.  Bluehost has long been a favorite of mine in the shared and WordPress hosting
spaces. They adhere to modern standards for hardware, and their customer support is
fantastic. For the vast majority of customers, Bluehost’s shared server options will
accommodate their hosting needs for a web presence. Once you outgrow the traffic
allowances of shared web hosting, however, Bluehost excels in the VPS and
dedicated hosting niches, too.
 What makes Bluehost packages most appealing is their reputation for affordability and
usability. Web novices and veterans alike can appreciate that. Added incentives, such
as free domains, marketing credits, and unlimited emails, make this provider a bang-
for-the-buck favorite throughout the hosting community.
 Features:
 FREE domain and site builder
 1-click WordPress installs
 Unlimited site traffic and in-house support available 24/7
 Industry-leading hardware and uptime
Site Link: https://www.bluehost.com

14.  HostGator has been around for over a decade and is well-respected for their large
number of servers and their consistent reliability. Known mostly as a shared hosting
provider, HostGator still supplies decent dedicated and VPS options if you need your
site to scale.
 HostGator costs a little more than some of the other budget-minded shared hosts, but
that contributes to their reliability and well-known support. They offer decent features
included in their basic offerings, unlimited disk space, a nice control panel, and free
website templates. While the feature list is short compared to other hosts, you do get
the flexibility to add them as you see fit.
 Features:
 Easy-to-use control panel
 FREE Weebly site builder
 Unlimited disk space, emails, and bandwidth on all plans
 No contract required and 45-day money-back guarantee
 50% off your first month, plus domains starting at $5!
Site Link: http://www.hostgator.com

15.  With an impressive breadth of overall hosting services offered, SiteGround is a leading
innovator in the hosting space — from custom software solutions to premier customer
support. They offer the full range of web hosting features, including a free Cloudflare
CDN, cPanel with SSH access, and unlimited MySQL databases and bandwidth — not
to mention their prize-worthy customer support.
 Features:
 FREE site transfer or new site setup with 1-click install
 FREE automated daily backups, CDN, email, and SSL
 24/7 expert support with no wait time on phone or live chat
 Recommended by WordPress as a top WordPress host
 Ideal for business email hosting, with 99.9% uptime
Site Link: https://www.siteground.com

16.  InMotion offers an excellent business-class shared hosting plan. While carrying a
higher price tag than other cheap hosts, it has a very nice list of features to help justify
the extra cost.
 For the IT crowd in the audience, you’ll appreciate SSH access, as well as support for
PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, WP-CLI, and other popular languages. You’ll also appreciate
the 20-times faster speed, which comes from all-SSD storage and your choice of
datacenter locations. You needn’t worry about data security as InMotion plans include
data backups.
 Features:
 FREE BoldGrid builder and templates
 FREE website and cPanel migrations
 FREE SSD storage makes your site load up to 20x faster!
 FREE security suite including SSL and hack protection
 Unlimited bandwidth and emails
Site Link: http://www.inmotionhosting.com

17.  NameCheap is an independent (ie, not owned by a big holding corporation) an
ICANN-accredited domain name registrar founded in 2000. In addition to domain
registration, they offer a complementary spectrum of hosting services.
 NameCheap also provides email, website builder, SSLs, and various services with 24
hour support and a 30 day money back guarantee.
 Features:
 Affordable price and good support team
 SSL Certificate Services
 Free domains along with a dynamic DNS
 Shared hosting for less than a domain name costs
 Unlimited bandwidth
Site Link: https://www.namecheap.com

18.  LeafLeech has been providing advanced, straightforward Rapidleech hosting solutions
since 2011, and has quickly risen in the Rapidleech hosting industry. Rapidleech acts
as a browser which you can use download/upload purposes. You can download files
from popular filehosts like Rapidgator.net, Uptobox.com, Uploaded.net,
Keep2share.cc, Fileboom.me etc. And you can also upload file to those filehosting
sites. And using MTN tool, You can take Screeshots of you video files.
 All our equipment is carefully chosen to ensure maximum uptime and performance for
your Rapidleech. We use superior quality servers with Intel Xeon E5 family
processors, 64 GB of RAM & high-performance SSD drives setup to provide
increased speed and data security.
 Features:
 Private Rapidleech hosting solution starting from $5
 Included many Premium Plugins
 MTN to take Screenshots of video files.
 Rar/Unrar & Zip/Unzip functions
 Lots of Upload Plugins
Site Link: https://leafleech.com