For beginners without any experience with web hosting,it is very challenging to choose the right web-hosting plan. Often times, this person is not familiar with hosting terminology.
A new webmaster should have a basic knowledge of web hosting if he wants to make worthy decisions. Web hosting comes in three basic types: shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting, and virtual web hosting. All of these web hosting are different on the basis of price as well as the requirements. Read on to determine what is right for you and learn the differences between them.
Shared web hosting:
Shared hosting refers to a hosting company that places multiple websites of different users on one server. Some limit to the amount of resources is provided to each account and the amount of resources that one is permitted to consume. Because there are multiple sites hosted on one account, a site that consumes extra resources can slow the server down, causing slower performance on other sites.
For most users, this is the best choose because it shared hosting is available at very reasonable prices. Shared hosting plans are usually available for less than ten dollars a month. Just be careful to watch for signs that a web host may unreliable, including offering unlimited bandwidth. Hosts offering unlimited bandwidth often oversell their server space, resulting in slow sites. Browse the web carefully to find reviews of any web host you are considering.
Dedicated web hosting:
Dedicated hosting is the most expensive type of web hosting. In case of dedicated web hosting one does not require to share a server with other users where as he/she is going to use the entire server all alone. With dedicated hosting, the user gets to use all of the resources of the server for himself. Lots of times hosting companies offers the user different options for the type of server he wants too rent and the operating system it runs.
For webmasters with large sites or with many (over 100) web sites it is probably best to get dedicated hosting, instead of paying for individual shared hosting accounts.
Virtual web hosting:
A virtual web hosting is the fusion of a shared web hosting account and a dedicated server. Software on the server is able to break it down into multiple “virtual” servers. In this case the effect is basically like having several servers on the same machine and one would be paying for one of these virtual servers.
Virtual servers allows the user the flexibility of modifying his server settings as if he was renting a dedicated server. With virtual dedicated hosting a user actually sharing a server with other users, which results in lower costs than true dedicated hosting. Virtual private server plans are quite expensive than the shared web hosting.
Beware of hosts that promise too much… some offer unlimited bandwidth or unlimited hosting. That looks very nice in the beginning however thereafter the server gets slowed-down significantly over time due to hundreds of busy accounts on one server.
Do your research and understand your needs. This is the most important advice I can give anyone searching for web hosting. Good luck!
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