There are many
web hosting services available which are offered by web hosting sites and there
various kinds of Web Hosting options we see. So let us go ahead and discuss in
brief about few of them.
As web hosting market is grown-up
and thousands of host
a website companies offer plenty of webhosting service on various
platform. So, hosting companies have distinguish hosting package in few
distinct categories like.
• Shared Hosting • Virtual Hosting •
Reseller Hosting • Free Web Hosting
Shared Hosting: Shared hosting is
widely used among all plans. In shared web hosting a server space is shared with other
clients of the hosting company. Hosting company manages the whole server to
give their client guaranteed uptime, hardware maintenance, and software. Shared
hosting is a type of cheap web hosting as number of sites hosted on same
server. Also clients only need to pay for the space they occupied from hosting
company. The main draw back of shared hosting is that number of web sites
hosted on same server so heavy traffic will possibly harm your web site
performance. Shared web hosting is good for small and medium size business or
organization. Also many companies and organization use shared web hosting plan
for back up of their hosting solution.
Virtual Hosting: Virtual Hosting is
also called Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. Virtual hosting is a powerful
feature that hosts more than one site on same computer and IP Address. Many
virtual hosting provider offers to host multiple domains, email features, file
storage and web site creation tool.
Virtual hosting is a best solution
for small scale industries or small business that don't require excessive
bandwidth.
Free Web Hosting: A web hosting
company that offer to host your site at free of cost. Free Web Hosting Company
that offers limited features with advertisement or link on the web site. Free
hosting also put popup, pop-under, banners or other links for advertising their
product. They generate money by the above mentioned ways.
Free hosting providers generally
limit your usage of bandwidth, web space, don't allow mp3, mpeg or zip files.
Also they don't guarantee any uptime and restrict size of files for uploading.
