On Internet, there are several web hosting services established but some of them are reliable and user friendly. Web Hosting Companies’ servers are comfortable to start any kind of site including blogs, forums, questions and answers, social media sites and etc. However, the Internet who decided to start the first website has to know a few facts about web hosting’s pros and cons. Before purchasing a web hosting plan, a site owner must enquire about bandwidth, RAM speed, and Downtime.
What is Web Hosting?
Web Hosting is an Internet-based storage place where site owners store static and dynamic web pages along with their different format content to allow Internet users to reach them through domain names. Web Hosting Companies provide Internet storage place in free and paid version hosting solutions to Internet users who are interested to set websites for sharing useful content with fellow Internet users. Web Hosting companies offer their services to customers at affordable prices but some of them are very expensive in cost because of their advanced features.
Types of Web Hosting
Web Hosting firms offer different types of hosting plans to customers but all web hosting plans are designed based on how there are allowing clients to use their web servers to store web documents. Following is the list of web hosting services, offered by web hosting companies.
- Shared Web Hosting
- Virtual Web Hosting
- Dedicated Web Hosting
- Reseller Web Hosting
- Cloud Web Hosting
- Free Web Hosting
Shared Web Hosting is a suitable site hosting plan for starters who would like to use advanced features like File Transfer Protocol, Database, space for testing an application and etc. Hosting services provide shared web hosting packs at a cheap cost and it’s fine for starting sites or low traffic websites. Hosting services offer shared plans by running so many clients’ sites on a web server but the main problem with a shared web hosting server is, when your site or someone’s website on the same server exceeds its usage limit, the entire server goes down and all sites hosted on that shared web server also down automatically. The downtime is varied from service to service. So, every time you have to inform your hosting maintenance team by submitting a ticket for solving the issue.
VPS Web Hosting
VPS Web Hosting, originally called Virtual Private Server Web Hosting is a slightly expensive hosting pack than shared hosting plans but works better than shared plans. Hosting services divide the entire server space into a number of slots and give one to you to host your site. Even multiple clients’ sites are hosted in a single server but it does not affect your site in the form of site downtime when someone’s site is down on the same server due to excessive performance. If your site is down due to some issue, you have the control in your account panel to restart your VPS server without contacting the server maintenance department. VPS Web Hosting solutions come in different plans and it’s best for medium traffic websites.
Dedicated Web Hosting
Dedicated Web Hosting is an expensive but effective web hosting plan for high-traffic sites. Hosting services allocate a dedicated webserver to every client to use the entire web server. Dedicate Web Server works better than shared and VPS Hosting plans.
Reseller Web Hosting
Reseller Web Hosting is one kind of web hosting plan to share allocated dedicated web space with clients. It is a suitable web hosting plan for web professionals who offer web services to some of the companies. Reseller web hosting is also expensive but comes with a lot of advanced features.
Cloud Web Hosting
Cloud Web Hosting is one type of advanced web hosting system which stores clients’ websites data in multiple data centers to make sites load faster in every location. Internationally reputed top websites use cloud web hosting or Content Delivery Network (CDN) system solutions to allow their users to access websites fast.
Free Web Hosting
On Internet, some of the webspace providing companies offer limited trial period plans to test their service freely. Similarly, some of the international web hosting-based companies also facilitate free web hosting services to allow people to create a blog or forum site but recover their expenses by displaying advertisements on their users’ sites. However, some of them are also provided free web hosting services on revenue sharing systems. All free web hosting service sites are hosted in a dedicated web server but hosting firms do not allow people to use advanced features. One advantage of free hosting is no need to take a database backup, no investment, and no need to worry about site downtime. Free web hosting services are recommendable for people who are interested to start a website and also people who cannot spend money on on-site maintenance.