Sunday, July 3, 2011

Types of Web Hosting

All those advertisements for hosting around the internet nowadays just makes it more confusing for individuals to properly chose what kind of web hosting they should pick for their website. Even the biggest web hosting companies are offering great discount, promos in coupons to lure in bloggers and ‘would be’ website owner. If you’re good at scouring the web you can find various legitimate discounts such as the fat cow coupon code for fat cow web hosting company bluehost coupon for bluehost web hosting. There is also a huge variety of web hosting plans as well, ranging from personal hosting plans, business plans, as well as corporate and other types of plans. Then there are the shared and dedicated server plan, adding to the confusion is among the dedicated plan is sub-plans which are simple dedicated or managed dedicated. With all this ambiguity and fuss about types of web hosting plan, which one should you choose that will be best for your website and preference. Here are some introductions to some types of web hosting plans.
• Shared -The vast majority of people buy shared hosting. This is by far the most affordable especially for individuals and small businesses. It is a type of hosting where you share a server with lots of other people. This makes it cheaper for the host to provide service at an affordable cost, as they only have to maintain one server for say a hundred or a thousand people.
• Dedicated -On the other side is dedicated web hosting. With this type of hosting, your account is the only one on the server. This type of plan is usually chosen by larger companies or organizations with a lot of traffic or bandwidth. They have the entire server to themselves and do not have to worry about other websites taking up any of their bandwidth, especially at peak hours when they need it the most.
There are two types of dedicated hosting. Simple dedicated hosting and fully managed hosting. The difference between the two can be subtle, depending on the web hosting company.
• Partially Managed Hosting-With some companies, partially managed hosting means they will do routine maintenance on the servers, including resetting them when necessary. Beyond that, the customer is responsible for all the administrative maintenance of the server, including installation and maintenance of the software and all the scripts.
• Fully Managed Hosting-In contrast, fully managed dedicated hosting means that the host is responsible not only for routine maintenance, but for all the administrative duties on the server as well, including the installation and running of software. They make sure the server is up all the time, and provide all the technical knowhow to keep it that way.

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