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Web hosting is also known as storing of websites at the web server. A web hosting service provider should store the websites in such a way so that these websites can be accessed via the World Wide Web. A website in Malaysia may contain a single web page or thousands of web pages and web hosting company or service provider should store all these pages in their server so that while accessing these can either be assessed or be downloaded to user’s PC.

A web hosting service Provider Company in Malaysia in addition to storing the web pages of their clients on their server will also be providing Internet services. Generally the entire web hosting companies will have their servers located in a data center equipped with latest servers and preferably more than one server attached to the Internet round the clock. Datacenters in Malaysia are like TPM, AIMS, Jaring and TMNET.

Most web-hosting companies in malaysia provide collocation services, where they provide data center space and Internet services to other servers not located in their data center. Generally a web hosting company in Malaysia offers multiple solutions for your business such as web hosting services, email hosting services, domain name registration services and DNS hosting services.

Types of Hosting in Malaysia

A number of web hosting options are available and depending on your personal or business requirement, you can select any of the following web hosting options.

Free web hosting in Malaysia:

Although this web hosting is free, it is limited for personal use and if you want to host a single or two web pages, this is the best option for you. There are not many free web hosting companies in Malaysia as of 2002.

Shared web hosting:

There are many websites that can be stored in a single server and sometimes more than thousands websites can even be stored in a common server. Sharing makes web hosting cheaper, however as the same computer is used for storing, RAM and CPU are also shared and therefore downloading your web page might be slow.

Dedicated hosting server:

Here in case of dedicated server, the user get full control of the server, however the dedicated hosting server is costly and if required then only it should be opted. If you have ecommerce or ebusiness plan, then only dedicated hosting server will be better choice for you. You get complete root access to Linux or Administrator access for windows.The most popular dedicated hosting in Malaysia would be Everworks, Hostrelax and Exabytes.

You can also host your websites yourself or can have your own virtual dedicated server attached through a collocated server in Malaysia. You can have variety of options if you opt for reseller web hosting and should understand all the term and conditions from your provider.

Here in VPS (Virtual private server) or virtual dedicated hosting, you get freedom like you are on your own dedicated server, however there are many other people sharing the server. You get complete root access to your own virtual space and that’s why VPS hosting is cheaper than dedicated hosting

Colocation web hosting:

Although it is one of the most expensive hosting service provided by any web hosting company, it is the most powerful among all web-hosting services. Here a server known as colo sever is owned by the client is installed at the data center of the web hosting company. Web hosting company provides a physical space as well as take care of the server, however the web hosting company may or may not provide other hardware or technical support to the client. You might have to take a trip down to Cyberjaya or Kuala Lumpur City Center if you need a hardware replacement.

These are comparatively new hosting services and here a same content is hosted in multiple servers. It provides high uptime so that the contents are available round the clock.

Hosting server uptime

Hosting server uptime is one of the important factors everyone must look for. Although all common web-hosting companies claims that they will provide a minimum uptime of 99% or 99.9%, however it does not include the downtime or planned or unplanned maintenance required.

Hosting companies in Malaysia may provide specific types of hosting and these include video hosting service, blog hosting service, file hosting service, shopping cart hosting etc., and depending on your hosting requirement you can choose among the available hosting options.