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Now that you have decided to get
some web hosting, your next decision is what type of hosting
do you need. There are many different plans to choose from.
If you need help check out
yourdomainuk`s comprehensive
comparison guide
There are free web hosting services, these are free services but mostly
they are advertisement supported hosting companies. The free hosting is very
limited as 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 services. So first decide what your needs are and
then see what plan works best for you.
Shared web hosting services are 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 allows 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. All this is dependent on who they are
a reseller for.
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 user 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.
Last but not least is the Clustered Hosting Plan.
This is when you have multiple servers hosting the
same content for better usage. Simply speaking, you have several different
servers for the same Web Site content.
Need Help?
Hopefully the above
information will have given you some thought as to the types of
Hosting available.
If you need further help,
and If you haven't
already, take a look at our
comprehensive review. Here our team of webmasters
have taken an in depth look at the
10 major web hosting companies and compared
them individually according to pricing, reliability,
performance, features and service.
Good Luck
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