If you have a website and you want it to go live, you need a web hosting service. So what is it? It is a type of Internet hosting which is necessary for a website in order to be accessed by the World Wide Web, and web hosts are companies that provide servers which can be bought or leased by clients.

Types of Web Hosting

There are four categories of web-hosting: shared, dedication, co-located, and free. Here is a little information about each of these types:

Free Web Hosting – It usually comes with limited services, non-transferable domains and is supported by advertisements. Connection is often slow, with limited technical support and no domain names.

Shared Web Hosting – A number of website owners can share one server, including the physical server as well as the software applications in it. It is affordable, but limited and sometimes slow.

Dedicated Web Hosting – You can get your own Web server with full administration over it, but you do not own it. You are responsible for security and maintenance, and the connection is faster.

Virtual Dedicated Service or Virtual Private Server – Server resources are divided into virtual servers in such a way that the allocated resources doesn’t directly reflect the underlying hardware.

Co-located Web Hosting – For high-speed Internet connectivity, a dedicated IP address and power, you can flip the switch for this form of web hosting. The hosting company provides the physical space that the server takes up, while you can use the server.

Reseller Web Hosting – You can become web hosts yourself; you can use your allotted space and bandwidth in order to host websites for third parties. This is a form of business for many people – you can buy the host’s services at a wholesale price and sell them off at a profit.

Clustered Web Hosting – To utilize resources better, this kind of hosting allows multiple servers to host the same content.

Grid Hosting – When a server cluster has multiple nodes and acts like a grid, it offers this kind of distributed hosting.

Cloud Web Hosting – This new type of hosting is more powerful than other types, because it is decentralized and hence is unaffected during hardware problems and even natural disasters. Though it charges you according to the amount of resources you have used instead of a steady fee, it can be problematic for those who have security concerns.

But which of these types is suitable for you?

To find out which of the above kinds of web hosting your website or your project need, follow these simple tips:

~  Learn more about every kind of web hosting and see which suits your needs the best. For example, if you don’t want to incur the cost of powering and maintaining a server, but want full features and benefits of marvelous connectivity, you can flip the switch for co-located web hosting.

~  What’s the differentiation? In the intensely competitive world of hosting services, the best in the business are trying to differentiate themselves. Arvixe web hosting, for instance, offers 24×7 US based phone support. On similar lines, hosting providers try to differentiate by offering loyalty discounts, free website builder, and more – check out a differentiated web host for hassle free site hosting.

~  Check whether it is cost-effective – no point in paying more if you don’t need the services, and at the same time, don’t lease a web hosting service that are not meeting your demands just because it is cheap! For example, if you only want to put up a temporary and non-serious website, why pay for security, data, and the works? Open the door towards free hosting!

Always remember that it can get better – be on the lookout for a better server.

If you look at the top apps on the Android and Apple market, you will note that they all have something in common, 3D. Whether the background or the main component of the app has 3d integration, most apps these days has a 3d element. Why is this? According to Forbes “most of us need real-life (or close to real life) experiences to judge if we like something or now…Today, brands are using high-end visualization to provide a true immersive reality to power a customer experience.” In other words, we can easier bond to a 3D experience than we can to a 2D experience. And since the app industry is based upon addiction and UX, 3D models and components just make sense.

3D models add reality

When you look at some of the 2D applications on the market such as in Marvel Puzzle Quest  or 3D based applications such as Real Racing 3, you will note that there are 3d components. Granted, the level of 3D varies from the applications. In puzzle games, the 3d is typically limited to the main focal area. Gyms, tokens, power ups, and such are 3d models which have had a 2d texture added to them. By adding these 3D elements within the game, the application obtains a bit of depth. Even in non-gaming applications such as Learn Chinese in 3D understand that by adding a 3d model to the application, they increase the reality and the user experience. 3D adds three main components which contribute to our reality, even though technically the information we are seeing is 2D (as you cannot pick the object off of the pixelated screen). These three main components are:

• Recognizable depth and form – The images on the app transform from being recognized as an illustration to being registered in our mind as a physical form.

• Shadow – Objects which have shadows and highlights are more stimulating to us because we can then perceive them as having weight. We then give them more creditability as they are not seen as being fake but real things.

• Perspective – 2D can mimic perspectives and our sense of relationships between objects to a degree. However, the 3d object gives a far larger scope to the user. In fact, you could say that 2D is the baseline for 3D compositions for what are you trying to achieve with 2 point or 3 point perspective but the illusion of a 3d environment.

How you can use 3D to cheat the system?

3D modeling, rigging, and texturing takes quite a considerable amount of time, especially if you are making a gaming application which is dependent upon the coding and the relationship between the objects and that code. And while you could make all of the models yourself, it does not make sense to do so. Financially, the time that is spent to make a 3d model is more expensive than buying a model from a 3D model platform such as CGTrader. Timewise, production of your app is slowed down a great bit. Consider. Your programmer needs to have the model in most cases in order to perform the linkage between that component and the programing (php, Java, C++, or unity in most cases). Until the model is completed, your production team may be sitting on their hands.

Purchased 3D models do not mean “stock” 3d images

There is a perception that 3d models purchased from the internet are similar to packing your visuals with clip art. This is not the case. In many instances you will customize the 3D model to meet your requirements. For example: If you purchase a 3d Desk in .Obj format you may want to change out the chair, the textures of the top, the computer, add supporting 3d elements (such as a cup of pens), or re-sculpt or add to the model. The point is that the model that you purchase can be manipulated to make it your own.  In instances where you are using the 3d object for background and support imaging on the application, the focus is not based upon that object, and so there is not a need to worry about it looking “stock” as the focus will be on your primary object.

Getting prepared to cheat the system

Before you jump into your app production, ensure that you have the application planned out. Storyboard your app to see what elements are needed. Which elements are 3D, what is interactive, what is supportive, and most of all what is the purpose of the app? By addressing these questions first, you will know where to put your focus, finances, and what the driving force for creating the user reality is.