Hosting & Servers الاستضافة والخوادم

Core concepts behind web hosting plans and server types — from shared hosting to dedicated machines, uptime guarantees and control panels.

10 terms in this category

VPS — Virtual Private Server الخادم الافتراضي الخاص (VPS)

A virtual machine carved out of a physical server through virtualization (typically KVM). Each VPS gets a guaranteed sli...

The percentage of time a server or service is reachable and working. The numbers compound fast: 99.9% allows ~8.7 hours...

A hosting model where many websites live on one physical server and share its CPU, RAM and disk. It is the cheapest way...

A virtual server whose CPU cores are pinned to it physically — no sharing, no fair-use scheduling. Where a VPS shares ho...

An entire physical machine rented by one customer — every core, every gigabyte of RAM and every disk belongs to you alon...

Hosting that runs on a pool of interconnected servers instead of a single machine. Resources scale up or down on demand,...

The web interface that manages a hosting account without touching the command line — creating email accounts, databases,...

The contractual promise a provider makes about service quality — most importantly the guaranteed uptime percentage. If t...

The volume of data your server can transfer in a billing period, measured in GB or TB. Every page view, download and ema...

A hosting plan designed to be re-sold: you buy a large allocation of disk and bandwidth, split it into smaller branded a...