complete guide

There are some important aspects that you should take into account before deciding what type of web storage you will use.
In this article we will cover some points that we are sure will be very useful, such as how hosting works, its differentiation with other key concepts, such as domain or IP address, and types of hosting.
What is hosting?
In simple words, hosting, which is also known as web storage, is the physical space that you rent on a server where you can save all the information on your web page and that allows your site to be visible among internet users.
Hosting providers are the ones that offer you the storage service.
How does hosting work?
The hosting works like a USB stick. In it, you simply keep your documents and it is useless to contain the information you want. When you want to use the files stored on it you simply connect it to the computer and open the folder of your interest. That is, it stores, just like hosting.
In easy words, hosting is limited to saving your site information and when a user wants to see it, the Internet searches for that information on the server that stores it.
The process is fairly simple. The first step is to click on the page of your interest or type in the search engine the page you want to access. Once you do, the internet searches for information on the server. Finally, once the internet finds all the content on the page, it downloads it to your computer so you can access it.
While it may sound complicated, this whole process takes a matter of seconds.
What types of hosting exist?
Although the market offers several types of hosting that cover different needs, we present the 6 most common:
Shared Hosting
Dedicated server
VPS (Virtual Private Server)
Cloud hosting
Reseller Hosting
Mail Hosting
Each of them with different benefits and specially created for the specific needs of each client.
What is the difference between hosting and IP address?
In the hosting, we store information, while the IP address is a unique and unrepeatable set of numbers that serves to identify a computer connected to the network that carries information packets so that there is no doubt about the origin and destination of the data transmission. An IP address looks like this: 200.36.127.40.
Let us give you a clearer example. Hosting is like the house you are renting. In it are all your things: living room, dining room, TV, photo albums, clothes, shoes, etc. (which are stored files and information).
The domain would be the house address, which helps to easily identify where it is located: Calle Margaritas No.4218, Colonia Los Volcanes. And finally, the IP address would be the coordinates with which you can locate the house on the GPS.
What is shared hosting?
Shared hosting is a type of hosting where the provider rents small spaces to several websites within the same server. Thus, all clients host their content and at the same time share server resources, among others CPU, processor, RAM, bandwidth, IP address or monthly data transfer.
It works as an apartment building. The building (server) has certain divisions that form small houses inside. Each department (shared hosting account) is rented by different people and they all share services such as the elevator, surveillance, maintenance, light, or water (resources).
If the elevator breaks down and one of the tenants has not paid its maintenance fee, then it will not be repaired until it clears its debt.
What is a dedicated server?
A dedicated server is one whose exclusive use is of a single client. That is, it does not share resources with other people or companies, since it uses an entire server, so the performance is not affected by traffic, as can happen with shared hosting, in addition to having a higher level of security.
If shared hosting could be compared to renting an apartment, the dedicated server would be like renting your own home, since you would be renting the entire property.
You don't share services with anyone if you forget to pay for electricity, the only one affected is you.
What is a VPS (Virtual Private Server)?
A VPS (Private or Virtual Server or Virtual Private Server in English), is a web storage service characterized by a physical server divided into independent virtual partitions capable of working with its own operating system and without sharing resources with other VPS. The provision is similar to shared hosting, but with the benefits of a dedicated server.
VPS is usually compared to shared hosting because the same server is virtually divided and rented by different clients. However, in this case, the performance of the web pages is not affected because resources such as RAM, processor, bandwidth or data transfer capacity are not shared among multiple users, so their benefits are They compare with the dedicated server.
A VPS is like a fractionation. The land (server) is sectioned in a certain amount of individual lots in which houses are built with their own services (virtual servers). Each house is rented by different tenants.
The only thing they share with each other is the cost of street lighting inside the subdivision and the guard who opens and closes the gate.
What is reseller hosting or reseller hosting?
The reseller hosting is basically the resale of the web storage service. That is, you acquire the hosting service with a provider and at the same time, you have clients who pay you for hosting within the same plan you hired.
As a reseller, you can include external domains or create subdomains, in addition to creating the hosting plans you want.
You don't need technical knowledge to handle it. The most common control panel to manage the service is known as CPanel, which in addition to facilitating certain tasks and reducing your implementation times, gives your clients independence so that they themselves manage their web storage service.
You can create your own hosting plans. The reseller hosting works just like when any other type of web hosting is hired: different plans are put together depending on the needs of the users and each plan is assigned a monthly price or fee depending on the benefits they offer. In this case, the only difference is that whoever is subleasing the service will be the one who receives the monthly payments for the rent.
Technical support is provided by the provider. Most of the providers that allow you to be a reseller of the storage service take care of the technical support. They perform all maintenance work so that there is no fault or to solve some kind of existing problem.