Types of Web Hosting
There are many different types of web hosting and ways to setup web hosting accounts, but the main three are shared, reseller, and dedicated. Different types of hosting are better for certain businesses as discussed below.
Shared Web Hosting
Shared web hosting is the most popular and cost effective form of hosting. Shared hosting provides a portion of web space and bandwidth on one of the web host’s servers. There are many other web sites hosted on this server, and most hosting companies are likely to have quite a few of these servers physically located in a large data centre. The resources of the server are shared by all the other websites on that computer.
Shared web hosting is the best form of web hosting if you are looking for reliable service at a good price and don't have more than a few thousand visitors to your site each day.
Reseller Web Hosting
Reseller web hosting is a popular, low-cost solution if you have many websites or manage a number of sites for other businesses (such as a web developer).
The reseller provides the web hosting plans of a larger web hosting company (often unbeknown to the client), but receives a discounted price from the host due to the volume of websites maintained. It is the reseller’s responsibility to support and bill the client directly. The discount offered by the host allows the reseller to apply a mark-up, making this option highly lucrative if they maintain a lot of websites for clients.
Dedicated Web Hosting
Dedicated web hosting is the most powerful and cost effective solution for very large companies that run very busy websites. It allows you to lease a whole server which is dedicated purely to your business. This provides greater configuration options and gives you optimum bandwidth - anyone who has a busy website that generates over 10,000 visits a day will find dedicated hosting is the necessary choice.
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Web Hosting - A Beginners Guide Index
Page 1 : Web Hosting - A Beginners Guide
Page 2 : Web Hosting and how it works
Page 3 : Types of Web Hosting - Shared, Reseller & Dedicated
Page 4 : Web Hosting Features - Price & Disk Space
Page 5 : Web Hosting Features - Bandwidth, Service & Backups
Page 6 : Web Hosting Features - Email, Statistics & FTP
Page 7 : Web Hosting Features - Scripting & Databases
Page 8 : Conclusion & About the author