Different Types of Web Hosting

Alright before you jump into web hosting for that brand new website of yours, here’s the various types of hosting that you should be aware of. Don’t go be paying for something that you don’t need.

Free Web Hosting

You are free to use the services but with conditions. Usually your site need to display their advertisement. Most of the time you get little or no support. Expect plenty of downtimes.

Shared Hosting

The most popular choice of many people. Multiple sites are hosted on one server. That’s why its cheap. Ideal for personal blog and small businesses.

Reseller Hosting

This is where a person signup and this package has the option for the person to sell his space on the server to other people. It’s like running your own web hosting company.

Virtual Private Server

Its acronym is VPS. This is a server with added capabilities. Has the features of a dedicated servers like admin root access and dedicated IP, but it cost less. Why it cost less, its because you’re sharing the server with a small number of other hostee. If you’ve outgrown your shared hosting, VPS is the way to go but without the price of a dedicated server.

Dedicated Server

If you signup for this, you’ll have the server to yourself. You don’t need to share you CPU resources with others. This means you can go higher than normal CPU Load than usual. This is important if you’ve plenty of traffic and running intensely of your site scripts (PHP, CGI, ASP, etc). Usually an allocated admin would aide in your server management.

Managed Hosting

This means that you’re not in-charge of the hosting but the web host itself. They will take care and run the dedicated server. So the price for this package is more expensive due to the services cost incurred.

Colocation Hosting

If you’ve a server on your own, you can save money on the physical rack as you just need to pay for the shared data infrastructure. It will be at a colocation centre, a data center where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to other network service provider(s). Used by many Web commerce and major enterprises.

Grid Hosting

A new alternative to shared hosting. Instead on many websites on one server, the concept is many websites on a bunch of servers. During peak demand, multiple stand-alone servers comes to help out providing additional capacity for clients.

Summary

That’s a long list of hosting types and do choose wisely. The main thing is to look at your site requirement first before doing the search. Then tally the requirement with the web hosting packages offer.