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    Types of Web Site Hosting

    First of all we must determine the meaning of the word “hosting”. So, what is hosting?
    Hosting origins from the word “host” which has different meanings that are familiar to you. Hosting means providing place for your website on the web hosting company’s servers and makes it viewable in the Internet
    and floating it.

    Why can you once need hosting?

    Imagine that you have created a website and now you are wondering how
    your friends and acquaintances can see it. You place it in your personal computer, but then you come to know that it’s dangerous for your computer’s safety and needs permanent Internet connection. So it causes a lot of inconveniences for you. To avoid them there is web site hosting.

    There are different kinds of web site hosting. Let’s have a good look at them:
    1.Shared or virtual hosting
    2.Dedicated hosting/ server, Co-location
    3.VDS/VPS –Virtual Dedicated Server/Virtual Private Server

    Before choosing some type of web hosting it’s necessary to consider the way you are going to use it.

    Free Shared hosting

    If you want to host some non-profit-making or your personal web site it’d be more profitable to use basic shared hosting for no fee. This type of web site hosting is a rather logical choice if you are a junior in web site building or if you want to try some new idea and don’t want to pay. But of course you don’t have to suppose it to grant your site the best conditions, such as proper bandwidth and disk space. Some other features can also be limited, I mean MySQL, PHP support. It often also provides poor web statistics.

    Paid Shared hosting

    Almost all small businesses, intermediate and large professional sites use shared hosting, ‘cause they don’t need the whole server’s space and besides the whole server costs much. With shared/virtual hosting such necessary features, as multiply e-mail, MySQl, PHP, are supported. The main disadvantage is decrease of your site’s security.

    Dedicated hosting /Server

    This type of hosting is the best choice for those, who need much storage and bandwidth, and are good in server administration. You’ll be able to use all necessary software, but if you don’t have enough knowledge to administrate your server it will be a little bit difficult for you.

    Co-location

    It’s a sub type of dedicated hosting and can be compared with your own house which was built specially for you, with your favorite furniture and all. It’s built on your hoster’s (ISP) ground. This service is implied to fulfill only your tasks and is designed for your needs alone. And it’s cost is correspondingly high.

    VDS/ VPS

    Virtual private server is a type of web site hosting that is based on dividing a physical server into several virtual ones. It costs less though gives same possibilities as Dedicated server. Now, when we’ve examined different types of hosting services, you can decide which type of hosting is the most suitable for you.

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    Good artilce, Olga. I would suggest you should also visit this site. It has good stuff there. http://www.w3schools.com/hosting/host_types.asp
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    Quote Originally Posted by Olga Elizarova
    First of all we must determine the meaning of the word “hosting”. So, what is hosting?
    Hosting origins from the word “host” which has different meanings that are familiar to you. Hosting means providing place for your website on the web hosting company’s servers and makes it viewable in the Internet
    and floating it.

    Why can you once need hosting?

    Imagine that you have created a website and now you are wondering how
    your friends and acquaintances can see it. You place it in your personal computer, but then you come to know that it’s dangerous for your computer’s safety and needs permanent Internet connection. So it causes a lot of inconveniences for you. To avoid them there is web site hosting.

    There are different kinds of web site hosting. Let’s have a good look at them:
    1.Shared or virtual hosting
    2.Dedicated hosting/ server, Co-location
    3.VDS/VPS –Virtual Dedicated Server/Virtual Private Server

    Before choosing some type of web hosting it’s necessary to consider the way you are going to use it.

    Free Shared hosting

    If you want to host some non-profit-making or your personal web site it’d be more profitable to use basic shared hosting for no fee. This type of web site hosting is a rather logical choice if you are a junior in web site building or if you want to try some new idea and don’t want to pay. But of course you don’t have to suppose it to grant your site the best conditions, such as proper bandwidth and disk space. Some other features can also be limited, I mean MySQL, PHP support. It often also provides poor web statistics.

    Paid Shared hosting

    Almost all small businesses, intermediate and large professional sites use shared hosting, ‘cause they don’t need the whole server’s space and besides the whole server costs much. With shared/virtual hosting such necessary features, as multiply e-mail, MySQl, PHP, are supported. The main disadvantage is decrease of your site’s security.

    Dedicated hosting /Server

    This type of hosting is the best choice for those, who need much storage and bandwidth, and are good in server administration. You’ll be able to use all necessary software, but if you don’t have enough knowledge to administrate your server it will be a little bit difficult for you.

    Co-location

    It’s a sub type of dedicated hosting and can be compared with your own house which was built specially for you, with your favorite furniture and all. It’s built on your hoster’s (ISP) ground. This service is implied to fulfill only your tasks and is designed for your needs alone. And it’s cost is correspondingly high.

    VDS/ VPS

    Virtual private server is a type of web site hosting that is based on dividing a physical server into several virtual ones. It costs less though gives same possibilities as Dedicated server. Now, when we’ve examined different types of hosting services, you can decide which type of hosting is the most suitable for you.
    thanks you.

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    Nice article..

    I would like to add that there are many other things anyone should check before choosing a host. Uptime, languages supported, databases, email functions AND MOST IMPORTANTLY .... backups! I have heard way too many people crying because there were no backups done and their server crashed! Most good hosts will do a backup at least once a day (to an external server BTW) so if there is a disaster the most you can lose it 1 day not everything!

    I only mention the email because I just had a client call about something she had hosted at some other company ... they actually limited her to send and receiving 100 emails a day MAX!

    So read the fine print folks!

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    After all the techno stuff. The #1 thing I look for is a forum. An active forum too.

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    Thank you I'll take it into account next time

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    Nice post

    I also agree that for choosing host the very important feature is good uptime and followed by good technical support.

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    Thanks, super article.

    Really cleared a few things up for me.

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