Web Hosting Types

Types of web hosting

Shared web hosting

Shared web hosting service refers to a webhosting service (usually housed in data centers) where a lot of websites are located on one webserver (or certain services on one machine) connected to the Internet. Each website has allocated its own directory or resource on the server to keep it separate from other sites with certain directory permissions.

This is in general the most economical option for hosting as many people share the overall cost of server and maintenance, but has a big disadvantage: If some customers abuses the server resources, all other customers are highly affected, therefore is most difficult to be managed properly by hosting companies. This type of hosting is suitable for most of peoples which are having a small to medium traffic to their website (along email mailboxes, etc..)

VPS Hosting

Virtual dedicated hosting (or VPS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple virtual servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system (even Linux and Winows), but each server is sharing the same physical resources.

This type of hosting is better then sharing and worse then dedicated in quality and price, but there are several advantages for a datacenter to offer virtual dedicated hosting over dedicated hosting, like: server space (one machine can “serve” multiple servers), electricity and few other things.

Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting is a form of web hosting where the account owner has the ability to use his allotted hard drive space and bandwidth (basically resources) to host websites like being a hosting provider. The reseller purchases the host’s services wholesale (like a big hosting plan) and then sells them to customers as smaller parts. A certain portion of hard drive and bandwidth is allocated to the reseller account.

The reseller can even rent a dedicated server from a hosting company, or resell shared hosting services. In the latter case, the reseller is simply given the permission to sell a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth to his own customers without renting a server from a web hosting company he signed for a reseller account with. One of the biggest issue for reseller hosting is the customer support. This customer support is “normally” intended to be delegated for reseller, but they ultimately have to contact the parent company for complicated issues.

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Email Hosting

Email Hosting is a very valuable resource nowadays, with the explosion in demand for email services and the huge number of people who send and receive email messages every day.

Email hosting can be attractive option for hosting companies, especially as a means of gaining new customers. Hosting companies that offer email hosting necessarily have large server resources. Email hosting is potentially a very large enterprise, depending on how many bells and whistles are offered.

Email hosting means that a hosting company offers to perform email functions for customers. These functions can be as basic as send and receive and as complicated as database processing and global searching. By agreeing to provide email webhosting, a company must necessarily agree to maintain the security of its clients email accounts, as well as the reliability of the servers on which those email accounts are stored. It is common practice for a hosting provider that offers email hosting to store its customers email archives on its own servers. Because of the always-on nature of email, the company that offers email hosting must also have server power that is always on.

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting service or dedicated server, is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an hole server not shared with anyone. This is more stable and flexible then shared webhosting, as customer have full control over the server(s), including choice of hardware and operating system. Server administration and maintenance can usually be provided by the hosting company as an add-on service with extra cost. A dedicated server offer less overhead and a larger return on investment. Dedicated servers are most often housed in data centers and the price is a lot higher then shared hosting. In contrast to collocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will provide support for your operating system or applications. This type of hosting is suitable for medium to big customers, which are having websites with big traffic, uses many resources and also having their business depending by the Internet.

Colocation Hosting

Colocation Hosting (collocation center) is a type of web hosting where customers are owning their server and use just the facility it self from data center providers. This means data center is providing their infrastructure for internet, electricity etc. to colocate customers servers. In such cases the cost for maintenance is less, but the cost for servers is supported by customers.