In recent years, we have chosen the virtual host or VPS/server for building a website

The day before yesterday, Lao Zuo briefly explained about“ Virtual hosting vendors that we may still use these years "About Virtual host In fact, it can be seen from the view of the businessman that the personal webmaster is no longer so enthusiastic about building a website. After all, due to the rise of mobile Internet and the emergence of WeChat, microblog and We Media, we have multiple channels to obtain information, and it is too small to build a self built website on the PC side against the backdrop of streaming media.

Sometimes Lao Zuo randomly opened and looked in the navigation directory of the existing personal website. Most personal blog websites are no longer updated or have been closed. They were originally interested in or hoping to benefit from something, but they may have been delayed by other projects or work. After all, personal websites are not so easy nowadays.

In our company, and in contact with friends who are still building websites, the current mainstream user base for building websites is foreign trade websites, as well as enterprise websites. Most enterprise websites have begun to transform from the original display type to the marketing type. In this article, we need to talk about the choice of virtual host and server when building a website.

First, the advantages of virtual host

In the early years, we learned to build a website from a virtual host Virtual host For an FTP, bind the domain name in the panel and you can upload files directly to the wizard to install the website. It is really convenient. Every year, many novices start to learn and build websites. When Laozuo is asked to use a virtual host or a server, my personal suggestion is to start from a virtual host.

For example, if you are an enterprise website, you don't understand the structure of CMS. You don't need to worry about the host from the virtual host. You can use it directly. As long as the virtual host is reliable, it is managed by the merchant, so don't worry too much about stability and data security, because most merchants will maintain and backup regularly.

Second VPS server advantage

From the beginning, we transformed from virtual host to VPS and server, mainly because there was no independent IP address for the virtual host to stabilize and optimize the website. Only VPS and server had independent IP addresses. At that time, the popularity of independent IP may be helpful to websites, but according to the search engine manual, there is no such statement.

But the trend is like this. As Saber said, VPS is basically starting now, regardless of whether you can use it or not. If you don't use it, it seems very low. Even Lao Zuo often sees netizens buy VPS and directly bind the domain name to the main domain name, so he wants to directly set up a website for use. After buying it, he doesn't know how to connect to SSH, and he also says that businesses can't.

Third, how should we choose

Lao Zuo mentioned earlier that most of the current mainstream hosting companies actually give up virtual hosting services, even if there are additional services. So, we are choosing Station building host We can prefer VPS and servers, but the premise is that we need to have certain operation and maintenance capabilities. If we connect the host VPS , server, FTP and other concepts are not understood, so the server cannot be used. It's better to start with the virtual host first, or buy the server first to try all kinds of twists and turns before actually using it.

Novice and entry-level users suggest starting the virtual host. If it is necessary for future project expansion and their own operation and maintenance capabilities, VPS and servers will need to be used sooner or later. After all, the carrying capacity of the virtual host is not as good as that of the server.

IV. VPS server operation suggestions

At the beginning, Lao Zuo also envied the handsome script when operating SSH at the same time. In fact, that's just the case. He really wanted to use some of the commands that are so commonly used. Especially, it is easier when we have a panel and a one button WEB package. Record problems and find solutions. After accumulation, there will be no major problems.

Data backup is necessary. We need to back up data regularly, and make backup or snapshot backup in advance when any operation command is uncertain, so as not to see some netizens who are unfamiliar with the command are operating the move or delete command, resulting in disk data loss and irrecoverability.

To sum up, no matter whether the website is easy to do or not, no matter which kind of virtual host or VPS you choose, when you really need to do projects and websites, what you care about is our own use and the attitude of learning to adapt and learn. When you encounter problems, you should search more and try more.