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About Types of Web Hosting If you do not want to spend money on hosting, free web hosting is your choice. This is better for a small site or you want to build a backup site for your existing site. You do not mind free ads, banners and pop ups on your site. The biggest advantage is that you do not need to pay a price. It's free.
Types of Web Hosting Following are the types of web hosting
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1.Free Web Hosting:
If you do not want to spend money on hosting, free web
hosting is your choice. This is better for a small site or you want to build a
backup site for your existing site. You do not mind free ads, banners and pop
ups on your site. The biggest advantage is that you do not need to pay a price.
It's free. It is best suited for testing purposes and for students. There are
many drawbacks. The web host shows advertisement on your site to grab money.
The disk space and bandwidth is low. There is limit on the file upload size.
They often do not provide you the feature of sub domains instead they provide
you directory. The domains are like yourusername.webhost.com. They do not
provide the business features like shopping carts, databases etc.
2.Virtual or Shared Web Hosting
Shared web hosting means that there is one server (hardware
and software) and many sites are hosted on it. You do not have total control on
the server. Web hosts provide control panels to access the site and to maximize
the revenue per server. You must see the terms of service before choosing
shared hosting. Check whether there are scripts or software web host is not
providing. The biggest disadvantage of shared web hosting is that if any of the
websites goes down due to error, all other websites will be down.
3.Virtual Private Server (VPS) Web Hosting
Virtual Private Server (VPS) is also called Virtual
Dedicated Server (VDS). You may have surprised by this term but it simply means
that there is one server but the resource allocation is in such a way that each
customer will get a dedicated environment. Customer has the feeling that no one
else is using this server hence it is called virtual dedicated server. It is
secure system because though the CPU and RAM is shared but file system is
unique. If someone hacks a website then he will not be able to disturb other
website because you have your own file system and only you can access that. A
VPS is much cheaper solution than a dedicated server.
The disadvantage is that hosting providers oversell shared
space. It means selling physical resources more than hosting providers have
mentioned in the terms of service (TOS). If there are more customers and
everyone has shared the physical resources and you oversell then overall robust
environment can not be provided.
4.Dedicated Web Hosting
In a shared environment, many websites of different
customers share the same server resources while in dedicated server
environment, you own a dedicated server with complete control of your own
control on software and hardware. Dedicated server is just like your own
personal computer with your total control but the difference is that it is
located in some data center. You can host as many sites as you want and install
any scripts and software you want. This type of hosting service is best for CPU
intensive applications. For example if you have millions of users accessing
your website same time then you must consider this kind of service. The uptime
is guaranteed.
There are cons of this type of hosting. First is the cost.
Dedicated servers are costly because there is a setup fee and you need an
expert to do that. In shared server environment, hosting provider only created
a new hosting account. In dedicated server environment, the provider has to
install and configure operating system for you and the hardware. You need an
expert administrator to install software patches for you. The hourly rate for
these professionals is higher than the support engineers who manage shared
hosting accounts.
5.Managed Web Hosting
You buy a dedicated server but if you do not have technical
skills than it is of no use. Hosting providers added another layer on top of
dedicated server where you hire the server management facilities. A person
having technical knowledge of installing software patches and other management
activities does the job for you and you do not need to worry about the server
if it crashes. They take regular backups for you. They install the software
needed. They only provide you FTP to upload your content and they manage all
the other technical stuff.
The drawback of this kind of hosting is the cost. This is
the most costly solution but the advantage is that you only need to focus on
the website content. Website hosting and administration is the duty of hosting
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