Web hosting means the service of hosting a site on the Internet making it viewable for other users on the net.
Types of Hosting :
- Free Hosts
- Shared Hosts
- Collocated Hosts
- Other Hosts
Free Hosts :
There are three categories of web hosting. This is based on economical and common features
- The persons who is making website just for hobby for them free hosting is a good option.
- In free hosting all features are limited.
- Free web hosting is also suitable for temporary usage.
- Normally free hosting enforces pop-up, text or banner ads.
- Reliability, best performance and customer support lacks in case of free hosting as well.
Shared Hosts :
- The next feature of hosting is shared hosting.
- This hosting is used by many websites.
- This hosting is perfect for personal and small business.
- This hosting starts with $1 to $25 per month.
- Shared hosting is better than free hosting there is no doubt at all. But it doesn’t provide 100% satisfactory services.
- It will be more expensive if less number of websites is hosted by one server.
Collocated Hosts :
Now the other type of hosting service to be discussed is collocated hosting.
In collocated hosting the customer owns the server hardware instead of renting it.
In this hosts the server will be placed in provider’s data center.
This is an expensive service.
Other Hosts :
Including the above type of hosts there are also many other hosts such as email hosts, media hosts, data hosts, etc but these hosts will not be discussed in this article. |
