Varieties of Web Hosting
May 17, 2008 in Business, Computers
Now as far a web hosting is concerned, it can be of many types- shared hosting, dedicated hosting, co-location hosting and reseller hosting. In shared hosting there are several websites which share a common space on the server. Since a server can host numerous websites people think that the performance of the server deteriorates with the increase in number of websites that are being hosted on the server, but this is totally wrong as servers are equipped with high end components to cater to such loads.
In case of dedicated hosting, a customer is provided with a specific server. Since the server is dedicated to one customer only, he can host as many websites as he wants on that server. In case of dedicated hosting the customer has the option of changing software configuration and he can handle large site traffic.
The charges for dedicated hosting quite high and can range from $50 to $500 per month depending upon the facilities provided by the company. In case on co-location hosting, the customer can also own the hardware of the web server with all the facilities of dedicated hosting. It provides more flexibility to the customer in terms of maintenance and control. In reseller hosting a web space is offered to a party at some discounted price by the provider and this party can resell this space to some other customer in order to make profit.