You may think that all web hosting is created equal and that you can just select a hosting provider and be ready to start. Unfortunately, that is not the case, so it’s important to understand what web hosting solution will suit your needs. Each web hosting solution caters to different demands. One can classify web hosting services into 6 major categories.
1. Free Hosting
2. Shared Hosting
3. Dedicated Web Hosting
4. Virtual Private Servers or (VPS)
5. Reseller Hosting
6. Collocated Hosting
Free web hosting as the name suggests, is pretty self-explanatory. It is a free hosting service good for amateur web masters, individuals and non commercial websites. Students learning web development can freely get a space for practicing. It is also good for familiarizing yourself before considering to buy a hosting service if you are new to it. It is not recommended for professionals and business web sites.
The shared hosting is the most attractive and widely used hosting option. Here, the web space provided by the web hosting company is shared between many other web sites. This lowers the customers cost dramatically. It is favorable for small businesses and professionals who need quality hosting with large space and bandwidth. Moreover, the support system of the web hosting company can also be availed 24 x 7 free of cost.
On the flip side of sharing the server as in shared hosting, the Dedicated hosting offers dedicated access to the server for a single client. For this reason this service is much more expensive than the shared hosting. Technically, it is faster, secure and most rewarded hosting service available. Generally the big business house considers dedicated servers due to its rewarding features and added security.
Virtual Private server is a cost effective alternate to Dedicated Server. Here one server is shared under the guise of multiple virtual servers; these servers are cost effective when compared with the dedicated servers. The most important feature of a VPS is it can be independently rebooted.
Inspired with the potential and wide spread popularity of the World Wide Web, many people take Reseller Hosting to add more features to there existing business. It is basically selling web hosting packages at their own price with there own features. Good for both reselling and branding with private name servers for their own websites.
Collocated web hosting is an uncommon type of hosting which many people have never heard of. A Data Center provides security, power, cooling and internet connectivity to its customers who bring in their own server hardware. The customer is fully responsible for the data storage, backup, operation and maintenance of his or her server.
Different web hosting solutions are just catering different types of Hosting requirements. Making it more feasible and justified for each users. Users need not pay for something they don’t need, or in other words users pay for what they need. Therefore it is always good practice to go through the features a Web hosting provider displays in its web site. For any other inquiry and clarification one should contact the support department with all pre purchase questions.
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