With hundreds of web hosting providers offering different hosting plans, it may be a little bit confusing when choosing the best web hosting plan to suite your need. Technical terms such as bandwidth, disk space used to describe these plans can be difficult to understand. A startup business will need basic hosting features compared to medium company. You may also need to consider how much you are willing or able to spend. Web hosting is usually charged annually like we mentioned in our previous article.
To avoid this confusion, we are going to look at some of the most common web hosting plans and their features.
Shared Web Hosting
Like the name suggest shared hosting means that your website is hosted in a server that is hosing other websites. The advantage of this type of web hosting is that it affordable. You get to share super server features that you cannot afford on your own. Shared hosting can cost your as little as 30 USD annual and you get to access almost all features of a server. It’s disadvantage however, is that if you are sharing server with a website that has heavy traffic this can affect your website speed since you are sharing resources.
Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
Virtual Private Servers share one physical server like shared hosting but act like multiple servers. VPS share hardware resources however, they are allocated separate slice of computing resources. This therefore, means that one website will not affect another website hosted on the same server.
Dedicated Servers Hosting
Dedicated servers is a physical server rented from a hosting company. With dedicated server you don’t have to worry about other websites. Your website will utilize all hardware and computing resources of the server. Dedicated serves are best for medium to large organization. Their charges are however higher than shared and VPS hosting. With dedicated server you have access to root folder and you can install different application of your chose depending on the app requirements.
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