Hosting types in a nutshell! by D
Champ
This article will end confusion about different hosting types. Below are
described all hosting types you need to know about.
Free hosting - is a type of hosting where you don't have to pay for your space
with money, but the service is often compensated with advertisements. Free
hosting offers poor or no support at all and has many other disadvantages. Free
hosting is more a thing of past, since hosting has become very cheap.
Shared hosting - is the most popular and widely used type of web hosting. Shared
means that multiple sites are hosted on the same hard drive and the same server.
Each user is limited to a specific space allotment and data transfer.
Reseller hosting - means reselling hosting accounts for a web host under your
own brand, pricing structure and everything else. Reseller is provided with all
the things he needs, and does not need any hardware. His job is marketing and
selling accounts.
Virtual Private Server - is a low cost solution for your own server. Virtual
means that you do not rent a real server, but rather split hardware with other
virtual servers on the same machine. However Virtual Private Server (often
called VPS) provides everything that a real server does: root access, installing
your own programs, hosting unlimited domains and more.
Dedicated Server - is an advanced type of hosting which includes rental and
exclusive use of a computer, software and internet connection. Dedicated server
provides far more control than any other type of hosting, but also means a
greater responsibility, since the client has to manage the server himself.
Dedicated server is the best solution for big web sites with lots of daily
users.
Managed hosting - is an expanded dedicated server hosting. With dedicated server
the client takes care of the server, but with managed hosting it is the
responsibility of the hosting provider. It includes all the benefits of
dedicated server plus server management, maintenance and monitoring 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
Colocation - is a type of hosting where you bring your own server to your hosts
data center. Hosting company provides you rack space, internet connection,
controlled environment (air temperature, security, redundancy) and IT staff
available for help.
Clustered hosting - is a hosting type used by the greatest and most important
web sites. Clustered means that the same content is served on multiple servers
(often referred as mirrors). This enables better resource managing and
redundancy.
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