Types of web Hosting

When you think about hosting your website it is important for you to consider some factor that directly affects your website hosting. Like:- Bandwidth, storage, dependability, scalability, secure site certification, malware and spam protection, etc.

Types of web hosting

With all the different types of web hosting available, it can be confusing to choose the right one but after gathering all the data regarding these above factors will help you to clear your view. There are lots of options currently present on the internet so let’s go one by one to each of them.

Shared hosting :

This is the first step towards hosting or we can say just the beginning of hosting a website if you are new to this area. In this type of hosting your website is hosted on a shared server as its name suggests the factors like storage, bandwidth, and many more are shared among all the clients of that shared server.

Because of this sharing sometimes a problem arises as if someone’s site has large traffic at a specific time then it will slow down your website to load and increases the response time also.

The hosting service provider provides its own system administration. If you belong to the non-technical field, needed less headache for managing your website, and having fewer visitors then shared hosting is one of the best options for you.

 Dedicated hosting :

This hosting type is totally opposite to the shared hosting, in shared hosting where we are sharing the server among all clients in this we are hosting our website in a separate server. All the resources on that server are dedicated to our website use.

In this we are responsible for our server security and its management, we have admin privileges means full access control over the server. Also, a high level of technical expertise is required for the installation and ongoing management of the server. Dedicated hosting is one of the expensive types of hosting services and it is only be chosen if your daily visitors are large enough and having large traffic on the website.

                            

VPS(virtual private server) :

This server is somewhere in the middle of a dedicated server and shared server in the functionality because we have our own server resources but the difference is that the whole server does not belong to us meaning the overall CPU time, memory, and many more resources are shared. Suppose hosting service provider has a server of size 10GB of memory whole but for you, it may reserve 4GB of memory. Resources are divided among the client virtually according to the requested arises by the client.

The resources and our own website are still in the hand of the server provider. There may be a concern of security if any of the servers misconfigure then maybe your website compromises therefore security is less as compared to a dedicated server but much more by the shared server.

This type of hosting gives less control over the server, the service provider is totally responsible for security, maintenance, and administration over our website.

Cloud-based hosting:

This is one of the latest type of hosting where we use the cloud service of any provider. In this, so many servers are presently making the clusters of servers. The resources required for maintaining your website are spread across more than one web server, reducing the chance of any downtime due to server malfunction.

Cloud-based hosting is scalable meaning if your site can grow over time, using as many resources as it requires and you only have to pay for what you need. This allows users to employ as many resources as they need without having to build and maintain their own computing infrastructure.

It’s a hosting solution that works via a network and enables companies to consume computing resources like a utility.

Self-service web hosting :

Self-service hosting means by its name itself, you have to rent a place for your server and storage. The complete web hosting is at your own responsibility. The hardware, software power, bandwidth, cooling, backups, administration are maintained by your self. It is the most expensive type of hosting because all the resources are own by us.

Then comes some of the hosting types which are not so popular but have their own importance.

Colocation web hosting :

When you opt for colocation hosting means you rent a space from a data center of any company. You provide your own server, hardware and they provide physical space, security, internet connectivity, cooling. this directly means we are owning our own server and its software so if any fault comes inside our server then it's our responsibility to replace it and take care of it. So its directly implements that we should only opt for these type of hosting types if we have some technical background or expertise. 

WordPress Hosting :

In this hosting you will get the hosting service inside the Wordpress server means Wordpress subdomain inside it. In clear words, WordPress hosting is a service where the web hosting provider will keep your WordPress installation up-to-date. It is not expensive as shared web hosting, this comes as a great option if you are a beginner to this and want no headache because Wordpress offer vary large number of plugin and themes for your website