Types of Web Hosting

by admin on January 5, 2011

There are numerous different kinds of Web Hosting that is hosting your web page on 1 of their servers.  What are the different kinds? There are numerous different kinds of Web Hosting.

 
Free Web Hosting Service  –  A free web hosting service is a service in which it is free.  No price to you.  No Money or Credit Cards needed.   Most free web services support themselves by attaching advertisements to your page in the form of banners, texts-links and/or pop-ups.  The majority of free hosting services assign sub-domain names such as (janedoe.forexample.com) or sub-directory like (www.forexample.com/janedoe) Some disadvantages are that you receive tiny bandwidth, advertisements, no guarantee of uptime, and doesn’t grant some file types.

Shared Web Hosting Service – Shared Web Hosting Service can also be called virtual hosting.  This is a situation where there are multiple domains hosted on the same physical server and all share the same IP address or a set of IP addresses.

Reseller Web Hosting – Reseller Web Hosting is a setup that involves you selling hosting as a reseller to your own customers. The Parent Hosting company then receives a portion of the hosting proceeds back to it.
Virtual Dedicated Server – Even though there are companies who might call this shared hosting, it’s true setup is where there are multiple domains on a series of machines not sharing an IP address, and numerous times the web master has shell access.

Dedicated Hosting Service – Dedicated hosting is setup for 1 domain for 1 and it’s own set of IP addresses. This is the most basic high-end host.

Managed Hosting Service – Managed Hosting involves a web site hiring a company to manage it’s servers and to also manage the day to day routine of doing maintenance of the site like backups of the databases and it’s cache files.

Co-location Web Hosting Service – The website owner would buy a server and rent a spot in the rack location for the server to sit. They would then rent a block of bandwidth and a block of IP addresses to server their web hosting needs. This is often interwoven with Managed Hosting Services at the Co-location Web Hosting Service. This can be often times the most price effective over a long span of time.

Clustered Hosting – This is the coupe’ de gras of hosting. The end all to beat all. The Clustered hosting solution is for monster sites like MSN, Google, Yahoo, etc. In the most extreme cases, a company might opt for this, however it might think at this point to hiring it’s own IT department and in home Servers.

Whatever hosting type your site needs, be sure to do a tiny backdrop check on the company and try to speak to at least two of it’s current or past customers. Also think about payment options and lastly about your needs.

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Disadvantages Of Free Web Hosting

by admin on January 5, 2011

If you get what you pay for, anything free must not be worth much. This is as true for free Web hosting services as any other commodity. A free Web host might or might not provide the required level of reliability. Therefore extreme caution must be taken when choosing a free Web host.

There are numerous restrictions in all probability to appear. These include:

1. Advertisements, potentially those of competing Web sites, might be put upon any site they host. This is a basic source of revenue for a free host. These advertisements prove to be an irritant for numerous customers who might not like their browsing experience to be affected by these ads.

2. There might be tiny to no support with a free hosting plan. Sometimes only a FAQ page is offered as support. There might be no chance for change or correction of problems even when a complaint is filed.

3. The host might suffer frequent server breakdowns. There might be insufficient bandwidth to support the Web site’s needs. There might be no scalability. There might be thousands of other Web sites competing for the same server resources. This "death of a thousand paper cuts" result in hosts that look good at 1st glance, but fail miserably in practice.

4. Few free Web hosts offer important storage space or even restrict the type of files granted for use. For example, files typically that use a lot of bandwidth (like MP3 files) might not be allowed. This can cripple the utility of numerous Web sites.

5. Free Web hosts might also need the use of a sub-domain, which makes the ID much longer than it would have been if the Web site used its own domain name. The vast increase in URL length for the site can result in numerous prospective customers forgetting, misspelling, or otherwise failing to reach the site swiftly and efficiently.

Generally speaking, a free host ought be avoided if the want is to set up a business Web site. The resultant loss in terms of customers lost can be much higher than the actual gain to be had through Web presence. A sub-standard site is often the sign of a sub-standard business.

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