Different Types Of Web Hosting

The whole world is now using the internet. People have realized that having an internet connection is a necessity and not a luxury. Business minded people have their eye on internet marketing, thus having their own website is a must. A website is a collection of associated web pages. In order to be accessible by the whole world via an internet a website should be hosted on a web server this process is called web hosting or hosting.

There are different types of web hosting:

• Free web hosting
• Shared hosting
• Dedicated server hosting
• Co-located hosting

Free Web Hosting : A free hosting service obviously it is a service in which you have to abide the terms and conditions of the hosting company. One of its conditions, your website should have their banner or ads on top on your site. Usually in a free hosting service, the hosting company will provide a sub-domain or a directory. For example, www.sitename.webhostingcompany.com or www.webhostingcompany.com/sitename.

Shared Hosting: When you have a small business and plan to have a website, shared web hosting should be the in the top of your list. With this type of hosting you have the opportunity to have your website hosted in a low monthly fee and get a share on a web server. In this plan you have a small amount of disk space allocated for your site and a low amount of bandwidth.

Dedicated server hosting: In dedicated server hosting, you have the whole server dedicated to your website, thus giving you the right to have a large disk space and a high allocated bandwidth. This type of hosting is good for large company. In dedicated server hosting one can have their own hosting company that capable in selling shared web hosting. It is more reliable than shared hosting but more expensive too.

Co-located Hosting: Co-located hosting is just like dedicated server hosting that you have the whole server dedicated to your website except that in co-located web hosting you have your own server rather than renting it. You have to connect it to the internet by hiring hosting providers.

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