Types of Web Hosting
AdvertisementNow that you have decided to get web hosting, your next decision is what type of hosting you want. There are different plans to choose from. There is free web hosting services, these are free services and sometimes they are advertisement supported hosting companies. The free hosting is very limited to what you can have. Most companies that offer free hosting will only really provide for a webpage. You get a lot more when you pay for the services. Decide what your needs are and see what plan works for you.
Shared web hosting services is provided when you have a website that is on the same server as other sites. The amount of people sharing a server can range from hundreds to thousands of people. Most people who share servers have common server resources such as a CPU or RAM. Then there is the Reseller web hosting, this lets the clients to be web hosts themselves. The people who resell could host for separate domains and with any combination of these listed types of hosting. That is all dependent on who they are associated with.
The Virtual Dedicated Server is putting a server into virtual servers. Each user of the server feel like they have their own dedicated server but they are sharing them with many other people. Then you have the Dedicated hosting server. This is when you actually get your own server. The user’s gets full control over the server the only things is you still rent it and not own it but you are the only users on it.
Colocation web hosting this is very similar to having a dedicated hosting service but the user owns the server and the hosting company kind of rents out space to keep the server on their site. They will take care of it and do the maintenance but you own the server. This plan is considered the most powerful and yet very expensive web hosting service. Some companies do not perform the maintenance they simply provide electric, Internet access and a storage facility. The last hosting plan is the Clustered hosting; this is when you have multiple servers hosting the same content for better usage. Simply speaking, you have several different servers for the same content.
Now that you have decided what type of plan you want, now it is time to choose a web hosting company. One of the best web hosting companies today is Go Daddy, they offer hosting plus domain selling as well. There rates are very affordable and they keep their downtime to a minimum. Some other companies that will work well for you are Host Monster their basic plan is $ 5.95, then there is IX Web Hosting, they offer $ 6.45 for their basic plan, Dot 5 Hosting offers $ 5.95. Blue Host offers $ 7.95 for a basic plan.
Inmotion Hosting has a basic plan of $ 5.95, Start Logic is $ 5.95 for basic plans, Easy CGI offers $ 7.96 for basic service, Lunar Pages has $ 7.95 basic plan, Mid Phase has $ 7.95 plan and Host gator is $ 9.95.

May 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 am
Great article, very informative.
answered allot of questions i had. Thanks