There are different types of web hosting plans for businesses to choose from and while this is the case, a large number are often lost to choice when it comes to settling down with one. For the purpose of ensuring that you have all the necessary information needed to make an informed choice, it is important to get educated about the different types of web hosting plans available and basically, these include the following.
1. Shared Hosting
Just as the name suggests, this simply means that the hosting is shared. Your website in this case, is placed on the same server as other websites. In this case, you get to share the costs and this is seen as one of the major benefit of such a setup. However, with this, you are also placed at the mercy of websites you share the server with and this can drag your business behind.
2. Reseller Hosting
This is a shared account that comes with some extra tools that make it possible to resell the hosting space. In this case, you get more control through the control panel for Web Host Manager, billing software that makes it easy to invoice clients and other additional perks. Essentially, some of these perks include the following.
- Technical support
- Private name server
- Free website templates
3. Dedicated Server
In this case, it means that you get to rent a server from the hosting company and you can have full control over it and this is known as root permission. The price of dedicated services tends to be costly though and while this is the case, the benefits are numerous as well.
4. Virtual Private Server
This is also known as VPS and in this case, one physical server shared among many people though it acts as multiple, separate servers. This is seen as the steeping stone between getting a dedicated machine and shared hosting. In VPS, you also share hardware resources and while this is the case the computing resources are also awarded a dedicated slice. This is seen as an ideal way of ensuring you don’t have to deal with the costs of getting a dedicated server while at the same time ensuring that other websites do not bring your website down.
5. Collocation
When you collocate, it means that the data center rents you rack space and you bring in personal server hardware. They in turn provide cooling, power, physical security and internet uplink. In a nutshell, this type of web hosting plan means that you are responsible for your data storage, backup procedures and server software and in the event your hardware fails, you are also responsible for replacing it.
6. Cloud Hosting or Grid
This refers to new web hosting technology in which hundreds of separate servers are known to work together giving them the look of one giant server. In this case, as the business needs grow the hosting company is able to add more commodity software thus creating a larger cloud or grid.
This article was prepared by Irfan Siddiqui. Irfan writes for various technical online publications, including www.epc4less.com and www.certsni.com, both energy certificate performance companies based in Northern Ireland.
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I didn’t know what a collocate was. Thank you for sharing listing out different types of web hosting plans. I’ll share this post with my friends.
Cheers :)
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If you’re able to afford the upfront cost of your own equipment, it’s pretty difficult to recommend a dedicated server over colocating your own server. The long-term cost savings are just too great.
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You have an amazing list of web hosting plan. wow cloud hosting is the way forward,
Thanks for sharing , your blog is resourceful.
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I think this kind of posts really help in making a wise decision when choosing a web host for your websites. Could and server collocation are something new for me. thanks for useful info.
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Cloud Computing is always the way forward for me. any way shared hosting is cool
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Hello Irfan, your are an awesome writer. I’ve found your web hosting plans very helpful for me. Right now I’m using shared hosting because right now I don’t have vast popularity of my site. I’ll upgrade my hosting soon after reaching expected traffic goal and than I’ll definitely ask for your suggestion. Thanks.
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Dedicated and cloud hosting are much better than shared hosting. Just make sure you understand what it will cost you per month. Some of the providers like Amazon have a calculator tool to help you understand the full cost of switching.
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It seems that Cloud computing is the way forward now.
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Yes you are absolutely correct cloud computing is now a days getting on its grip and soon can cover the whole ocean.
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What time saver! Thank you for putting everything relevant to this subject in one place so that I don’t have to surf all over the place to collect it. Having the material presented by an experienced professional is an added plus.
Thanks a lot for providing us with this necessary onformation
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i didn’t know there are a handful of server types! Quite a learning here.. :D
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Michelle,
What kind of web hosting we and or using ? are you using a dedicated server, or small business web hosting ?
Twitter: realtimetricks
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I wish my article have help you chose the right server? Let me know what issue you are facing so in case if I can help you I’ll definitively do.
It is very important that you understand in detail as to what are the features that your hosting company provides you with.
great post. thanks for the share.
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I hope, Becca. You understood my writes?
I don’t find anything on your comment to make an reply for. Thank you for dropping by and providing us your comment.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing the types of web hosting services. It is really a great help to all those services who don’t know all the types of web hosting services.
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This is a great post, especially for beginners who aren’t accustomed to this terminology.
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Hey Jack, thank you so much for providing us your valuable comment. It was nice reading you though!
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Well, Never heard about “Cloud Hosting or Grid” and “Collocation” web hosting. thanks for sharing nice and informational post.
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Aha! It seems you are not regular to internet news?
Once in a morning people/blogger should read such news to make themselves update. Anyways I hope my writes have help you learn something new today?
It is good information on various hosting types. There are some situations especially at staring stage when we indeed need to know about hosting types and this article has brought all those things in one and also educated me. Thanks for informative article.
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from past personal experience before launching College of Content on a reliable virtual dedicated server, there were a few known shady web hosting providers.
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It definitely benefit for me. There are various kinds of web hosting plans whom sometimes we couldn’t trust for. By the way thanks for taking time to post like this, it really helps.
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Aha! I should have thank you for making my post glow with your comment, Marnie. Thank you for making such an awesome comment on my work. I hope my write have help you trust on the servers now?
Twitter: issuesEthical
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Web hosting is a tricky business. It is a pain to move your hosting accounts around so I rather stay with the same one for now. Until someone proves their are much better, I plan to stay with shared hosting. Although, I have heard that dedicated hosting is faster, but I can not afford that right now.
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If you are unable to afford dedicated one then you should go with shared as this will help you maintain your work and it will move slowly towards success. One’s your site gain traffic and readers move it to dedicated one before it becomes late.
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I agree with those that have said that dedicated hosting is a little expensive (Although great if you are running multiple profitable sites). Cloud hosting seems to be a good happy medium between dedicated and shared hosting if you have the traffic.
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Twitter: realtimetricks
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I guess you are right!
Cloud hosting comes with new generation people else before that we were on just two hosting now that we have option we should have given a try. What say?
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Shared hosting will work fine if you don’t get heaps of traffic just yet. Once your site begins to mature, and your new onslaught of web traffic threatens to sink your current hosting, a dedicated server (or at least a VPS) is crucial for your website or blog. Notice all the huge sites out there run on dedicated servers? Not a coincidence.
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Its not like we should go with shared hosting in starting days and then turned to dedicated one, it’s like we should start with such hosting from day one and then should move with them only.
dedicated hosting is somewhere a little bit costly but it is very helpful and useful for all of us as it always provides the best 24/7 services and that’s why many peoples doesn’t care about a little bit of money and choose only services
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nice post dude according to me reseller hosting is best one
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Hey,
Thank you for letting me know your thoughts. But can you elaborate why you like re-seller hosting? I mean this will help me write another informative post on such topic.
This is a good comparison between the various hosting types in the market. Good guide for beginners.
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Hey Jasmine, thank you for dropping by and provide us your thoughts.