hosting Questions about Web hosting

[Wildwilie]

I've recently wanted to start a website and I've been looking at web hosting. I'm new to this side of tech.

So I pretty much have no clue what I should or should get. Theres a ton of options out there about web hosting.

I have a few questions that I hope some of you may be able to answer or to help steer me in the right direction.

 

1. Pro's and con's of either getting a normal server that hosts my website or getting a virtual private server for it. Can you use a vps to host a website? Any major differences?

2. Recommendations on where I could look for hosting? Trying to get the best bang for my buck and honestly dont know how much traffic will end up on the website.

3. When server hosting company's write Unlimited traffic, whats the "catch" that they impose? Or do some not have any tricks up their sleeves?

4. How much do the specs of the server matter? I know that how clean and efficient your code can greatly impact the performance. But any way to actually know how well it could run? Would there a way for me to vm test it or something?

5. Are there any other options that I might be missing for web hosting?

[igormp]

1 hour ago, Wildwilie said:

I've recently wanted to start a website and I've been looking at web hosting. I'm new to this side of tech.

So I pretty much have no clue what I should or should get. Theres a ton of options out there about web hosting.

I have a few questions that I hope some of you may be able to answer or to help steer me in the right direction.

 

1. Pro's and con's of either getting a normal server that hosts my website or getting a virtual private server for it. Can you use a vps to host a website? Any major differences?

2. Recommendations on where I could look for hosting? Trying to get the best bang for my buck and honestly dont know how much traffic will end up on the website.

3. When server hosting company's write Unlimited traffic, whats the "catch" that they impose? Or do some not have any tricks up their sleeves?

4. How much do the specs of the server matter? I know that how clean and efficient your code can greatly impact the performance. But any way to actually know how well it could run? Would there a way for me to vm test it or something?

5. Are there any other options that I might be missing for web hosting?

If all you want to do is a static web page, then you could go for free with github pages or netlify.

 

1. Going for hosting is easier and sometimes cheaper, but you're limited with what you can do, usually they only allow php or static sites. While a VPS is basically a computer that you can do whatever you want, you still have the hassle of security, setting everything up and whatnot.

2. Github pages or netlify for static content, Digital ocean for a nice VPS.

3. Depends on the hosting company, it's not like your site is going to do 1tb/mo of traffic anyway.

4. Depends on how many access you're going to have. A single core machine with 128mb of ram should be able to handle simething small without a problem. You can test this kind of stuff with Apache's ab or siege.

5. Depends on what you want to do.

[AbsoluteFool]

3 hours ago, Wildwilie said:

I've recently wanted to start a website and I've been looking at web hosting. I'm new to this side of tech.

So I pretty much have no clue what I should or should get. Theres a ton of options out there about web hosting.

I have a few questions that I hope some of you may be able to answer or to help steer me in the right direction.

 

1. Pro's and con's of either getting a normal server that hosts my website or getting a virtual private server for it. Can you use a vps to host a website? Any major differences?

2. Recommendations on where I could look for hosting? Trying to get the best bang for my buck and honestly dont know how much traffic will end up on the website.

3. When server hosting company's write Unlimited traffic, whats the "catch" that they impose? Or do some not have any tricks up their sleeves?

4. How much do the specs of the server matter? I know that how clean and efficient your code can greatly impact the performance. But any way to actually know how well it could run? Would there a way for me to vm test it or something?

5. Are there any other options that I might be missing for web hosting?

Let's formulate the hosting types for you instead.

 

1. Shared hosting. (Just used for websites and some CMS might not work), unlimited traffic is subjective to the connection they use for this.

2. VPS, somethims low on resources, you self have to configure the server, on the other hand you are in full control.

3. Dedicated same as VPS just more expensive.

 

Which one you pick for a website really depends what you are gonna host. For example a wordpress blog will go a long way with shared hosting.

A heavy multimedia site might want some combination of VPS and object storage or dedicatd server.

 

Now the question should be, what is your website gonna be?

[Wildwilie]

55 minutes ago, AbsoluteFool said:

Let's formulate the hosting types for you instead.

 

1. Shared hosting. (Just used for websites and some CMS might not work), unlimited traffic is subjective to the connection they use for this.

2. VPS, somethims low on resources, you self have to configure the server, on the other hand you are in full control.

3. Dedicated same as VPS just more expensive.

 

Which one you pick for a website really depends what you are gonna host. For example a wordpress blog will go a long way with shared hosting.

A heavy multimedia site might want some combination of VPS and object storage or dedicatd server.

 

Now the question should be, what is your website gonna be?

The best and closest example that I know of would be something like blitz.gg website.

[AbsoluteFool]

2 hours ago, Wildwilie said:

The best and closest example that I know of would be something like blitz.gg website.

As far as i can tell that is an downloadable app. The website itself could be super easy. You best bet is to go with a small VPS and eventually scale it if needed.

That's what i personally would have done, doesen't mean it's the best option for you.

[Wildwilie]

1 hour ago, AbsoluteFool said:

As far as i can tell that is an downloadable app. The website itself could be super easy. You best bet is to go with a small VPS and eventually scale it if needed.

That's what i personally would have done, doesen't mean it's the best option for you.

Thanks for that, I'm in no rush. So I'm going to shop around and take a look all these options and ask around at a few more places. I also have a few people I can ask that I know.

But simply getting idea's to think about over time is what I often do before making bigger decisions. Also lots of research.