Walkthrough on a Basic Web Hosting

This article will cover the two main basic categories of web hosting. The first one is Dedicated Hosting and the second is Shared Hosting. The second type of hosting i.e. shared hosting can be break down into paid and free as our requirement/ need but normally in dedicated hosting we can’t avail a hosting for free.

Some terminology

Bandwidth – It is related with the amount of data our site can transfer in a given period. Whenever people view our site on the internet they have to download it from the server which uses up our bandwidth.

Storage – It is on the whole the measure of hard drive space allowed to our website to take up on a server.

OK, now about the type of hosting.

1-Dedicated hosting- the dedicated hosting or a dedicated server, is where our web site gets one entire server to itself and we are entitled to all of the resources offered by this server. The entire bandwidth and hard drive capacity is ours which includes the memory for processing and anything besides it. Dedicated hosting is pretty better traffic intensive web sites but for individuals and small to smallish medium businesses shared hosting is usually more than sufficient.

2-Shared hosting- is basically when a hosting company puts our web site on a server along with other customers. Monthly limits for bandwidth, storage, email accounts are allowed by our hosting provider. It always depends on what kind of server we were put on and how good our hosting provider is. Because sometimes on a server things can get a slight crowded and cause our site to be slow and unresponsive.

3-Free hosting- is shared hosting which we can get from a free service like geocities or other ones but it is generally exceptionally limited one. Posting in forums and such may help in earning from a decent free hosting account but generally paid hosting and a real domain name are much better than these options.

4-Paid hosting- is actually reasonably priced these days and we can get good solid hosting which support a small business for under $100 per year. A free domain name and free setup as well as a money back guarantee are included by the hosting providers these days.

Hope the compilation of information is proved to be helpful. If we have decided to buy hosting choose the best one making sure of the needs. The last thing how to select a right host Reading some articles on picking the right domain name and hunt down reviews of web hosting companies will definitely proved to be beneficial.

So never go with the companies that aren’t huge and well established because many people have lost web sites when unstable hosting companies went under.

Be watchful and have fun. Getting a web site is the cheapest way to start a business.