subject: How To Choose Web Hosting – III [print this page] How To Choose Web Hosting III How To Choose Web Hosting III
This article is in continuation to the article How To Choose Web Hosting II. The previous article talked about Bandwidth, database and hosting technologies. This article will focus on types of web hosting and which one suits you. This article will focus on types of web hosting and which one suits you. It discusses about shared hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated hosting. It talks about different types of hosting in a language you can understand. The article will help you in opting for the right type of hosting.
Web Hosting Types
Shared Hosting
In shared hosting, your web site gets hosted on a server that is shared by 100 other web sites. It is website hosting service where you have maximum accessibility to your docs, data source by using an administrative interface but you share server with some other websites. The amount of disk space and RAM are assigned in minor amount to every single web hosting service accounts. This hosting package has a small amount of actual memory and disk space making them cost-effective. It is useful for the website that has low traffic and usually run lightweight CMS or static HTML files.
Virtual Private Server
It has features of both shared and dedicated hosting but it removes the limitations of both type of hosting. It uses special software that takes a single physical web server and divides it into 2 or more separate virtual web servers. Each virtual server acts as if it is a completely separate machine. The main large server is partitioned and leased out to different users, thus giving them their own operating systems and root access to these partitions. The access provides the users with great technical control and ability to update, install or change system software needed and to execute root user operations. VPS is needed if your website plans are dynamic and there is an expectation of erratic traffic on your website. It's kind of intermediate hosting plan as it is expensive than shared but cheaper than dedicated hosting.
Dedicated Hosting
This hosting provides an entire web server to a single user. It can be use to sell shared or reseller hosting or can be use by a corporate to manage all their web sites. Dedicate hosting excels over shared hosting by providing more memory, disk space, CPU, RAM and bandwidth. It provides more security and uptime than a shared hosting as it is used by a single user.
