Types of Web Hosting
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Types of Web Hosting
Types of Web hosting:
Web hosting is categorized in to these main categories, which are as follows: -
1-Free/cheap web hosting
2- Shared web hosting
3- Reseller web hosting
4- Dedicated web hosting
5- Co-location web hosting
Free/Cheap Web Hosting
As the old saying goes, "There is no free lunch". The same goes for web hosting but if you can live with limited web space, banners, popups, and other restrictions you can get certainly find "free" hosting.
Ad-free sites start around $5 per month; they include 25MB to store files on your site and 5GB of bandwidth per month but no e-mail; as you pay more, you can add extra features, like basic e-commerce tools that are perfect for selling homemade goods, or other hobbyist endeavors. But their cookie-cutter design templates and limited bandwidth and storage offerings will leave serious users hungry for more.
Key Features:
Monthly fee: $5 to $35
Bandwidth: 5GB to 10GB per month
Storage : 25MB to 300MB
E-mail accounts: 0 to 10
Other tools: An FTP (file transfer protocol) site makes uploading files easier and faster; the option to receive payments via Papal saves you fees associated with credit card authorizations.
Best for: Very small online shops and newbie who don't want to learn HTML.
Shared Web Hosting
Shared web hosting (also called virtual hosting ) is the most common type of hosting service used. Shared web hosting means that you are sharing one server (CPU time, memory, OS, applications, bandwidth, etc) with a number of clients of your hosting company. The web host manages the server to ensure uptime, upgrading hardware and software. The cost of shared hosting often depends on the number of clients being hosted on a server as the hosting company tries to maximize profits per server.
Key Features:
Monthly fee : $10 to $300
Bandwidth: 5GB to 100GB per month
Storage: 50MB to 120GB
E-mail accounts : 5 to 100
Other tools: E-commerce suites, traffic analysis, marketing, design.
Best for: Small businesses that don't have a dedicated Web know-it-all or an IT department; large businesses with simple Web site needs.
This type of web hosting is same as that of shared web hosting. The only difference is that a third party buys or rents a web server from a web hosting company at a cheaper costs and self becomes a web host. He then sells space and bandwidth to his customers. It's a bit more problematic as it consist all the disadvantages of shared web hosting and the technical support it provides is also slower as the third party person you called will call his web hosting company and will discuss your problems to them and so it becomes a kind of late communication. This is more preferable for personal web sites.
Key features:
Monthly fee: $ 10 to several of $100
Band width: 100GB or up
Disk space: 10GB or up
Email account: 100000 or up
Other tools: Control Panel, Statistics, Web mail, PHP, Perl, Shared SSL, FrontPage, MySQL
Suitable for: small business sites.
Dedicated Web Hosting
We always prefer good service but when it comes to money we pull back. This is the case with dedicated web hosting. The theme behind this is that a single computer is rented to a customer and a high bandwidth is provided, but what kills is the cost, in simple English its expensive but availability of resources is high. This kind of web hosting is mainly used for e-commerce. Sometimes only technical support becomes an issue in this type of web hosting rest all the things goes well.
Key Features:
Monthly fee: $200 to six figures
Bandwidth: 15GB to all you can eat per month
Storage: 40GB and up
E-mail accounts: Unlimited
Other tools: E-commerce, traffic management, site monitoring, site-design services, search tools, firewall, intrusion detection, and just about any other tool you can think of.
Best for : Large enterprises, e-commerce sites, or Web-centric small to medium-size businesses.
Co-location Web Hosting
Similar and very similar to dedicated web hosting. In this type of web hosting a web server is purchased from the web hosting company and is only housed by this company. Now why will any one house a web server even if it doesn't belong to them? That's because they provide bandwidth and they charge money for the bandwidth, how interesting. This gives the customers full control of the web server with security.
Collocation is costly in beginning as you have to buy a new server but its monthly rent is much cheaper than dedicated hosting. This is because in dedicated hosting you lease the server from the host and you have to pay for it monthly.
Key features:
Monthly fee: slightly less than dedicated hosting.
Bandwidth: 15GB to all you can eat per month
Storage: 40GB and up
E-mail accounts: Unlimited
Other tools: E-commerce, traffic management, site monitoring, site-design services, search tools, firewall, intrusion detection, and just about any other tool you can think of.
Best for : Large enterprises, e-commerce sites, or Web-centric small to medium-size businesses that already own a web server.