subject: Types Of Web Hosting [print this page] In today"s Market people came to realize that the field of web presence became very necessity more than Anything to a Online Business. It is rather simple than a Manual market to Sell your products as it offers a way to showcase your products and services worldwide with a single click and you can reach thousands of millions of people. There are many web hosting services available which are offered by web hosting sites and there various kinds of Web Hosting options we see. So let us go ahead and discuss in brief about few of them.
As web hosting market is grown-up and thousands of web hosting companies offer plenty of webhosting service on various platform. So, hosting companies have distinguish hosting package in few distinct categories like.
" Shared Hosting
" Virtual Hosting
" Reseller Hosting
" Free Web Hosting
Shared Hosting:
Shared hosting is widely used among all plans. In shared web hosting a server space is shared with other clients of the hosting company. Hosting company manages the whole server to give their client guaranteed uptime, hardware maintenance, and software. Shared hosting is a type of cheap web hosting as number of sites hosted on same server. Also clients only need to pay for the space they occupied from hosting company. The main draw back of shared hosting is that number of web sites hosted on same server so heavy traffic will possibly harm your web site performance. Shared web hosting is good for small and medium size business or organization. Also many companies and organization use shared web hosting plan for back up of their hosting solution.
Virtual Hosting:
Virtual Hosting is also called Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. Virtual hosting is a powerful feature that hosts more than one site on same computer and IP Address. Many virtual hosting provider offers to host multiple domains, email features, file storage and web site creation tool.
Virtual hosting is a best solution for small scale industries or small business that don't require excessive bandwidth.
Reseller Hosting:
Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting in which hosting company offer their client to purchase web space and allow them to resell allocated space and bandwidth. Reseller Web Hosting Provider must require little knowledge of web hosting service to get started their own hosting service. Reseller hosting provider is not responsible for providing maintenance, technical support and other web service.
When client or customer have some problem in accessing server or downtime than technical support is held by hosting company that host reseller host.
Free Web Hosting:
A web hosting company that offer to host your site at free of cost. Free Web Hosting Company that offers limited features with advertisement or link on the web site. Free hosting also put popup, pop-under, banners or other links for advertising their product. They generate money by the above mentioned ways.
Free hosting providers generally limit your usage of bandwidth, web space, don't allow mp3, mpeg or zip files. Also they don't guarantee any uptime and restrict size of files for uploading.
