Nice tips. Thanks for posting.

Jack

Wow, this is one of the best simple termed explanation I've seen. Anyone looking for hosting questions, this is a good honest explanation of the type of services available.

Nice post, this will surely help the newbies. To add up with the post we have reseller hosting which can be used when you wish to create an e-commerce venture, selling web hosting and other related services.

nice info for new buyers. Im sure it'll help some people alot, if anyone is looking for shared hosting id really suggest hostgator.

Cheers,

-john


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Very Good well written explanation of the different types of hosting. Now if only we could get this info across to all Website Owners

Beautiful work. will probably save alot of people some cash mulla.
Someone should create the same thing for webhosts what they should have and when.

Nice post, easy to understand. Thank you, i am a newbie and helps a lot.

I like this post is very clear and will help many people, But if you could add the new cloud hosting I think it would help and add Resellers hosting, some people puchase resellers hosting to set up different sites and sell the sites.

and describe the semi-manages, full managed, and other services you can get with different hosting types.

Very nice explanation! It helps lot of people especially for newbies.

dude i recommend to use dedicated server leave vps and shared host

It all depends on what your gonna be doing. usually a shared hosting account is the best way to go. And some you can find for less than three dollars a month.

If its a normal traffic website then one should start with Shared Hosting. Many hosts offers levels of shared hosting i.e multiple shared hosting plans are available and higher plans have more resources available and less number of users setup. So start with shared hosting plan, upgrade to higher shared hosting plan if the site grows then to VPS and finally a dedicated server if you get that much traffic.

But it truly depends that how much traffic the website gets and how much resources it require. This will decide the plan that one should have. Best way is to submit a query to different hosts with the requirements and get an idea that what they suggest.

You don't need to live close to a data center to colocate your servers. One of our larger clients is from Europe, and many more are scattered around the US.

Thanks for covering all aspects of web hosting. It is not that easy which type of web hosting would be better. Because shared hosting cost less than dedicated or VPS web hosting. But for a person like me who have small online business, shared web hosting is a better person.

Hosting is only half the picture.

If you are truly lost and building a business around a web site, kidnap or hire someone that knows about hosting.

A key consideration is management of your hosting platform. As you move up the service ladder, you gain more power and control. With this control comes more responsibilities, which may or may not be met by your hosting provider.

For example, I know of a business that moved a growing blogging operation from shared hosting to VPS, only to find out after a database failure that backing the VPS was his responsibility.

I highly recommend people lead with business requirements. Who's going to backup the data? Who's going to keep the application secure? How much money do we lose if the site goes down? How will server outages impact our client's impression of us?

There are a lot of business questions to answer before you even turn to application requirements.

You may find you have modest application requirements but significant business requirements.

For example, I have a client with 30-40 targeted domains with simple lead generation forms. You would think this could be on a shared reseller plan but they have 2 dedicated servers. One is a hot spare in another facility. Why?

The site serves lead gen pages for TV advertisements. The TV ads are expensive and not easy to pull in an instant. The last thing you want is to spend $10K on day's TV ad run and then have your site offline. So they spend according to business needs not technical ones.