Types of Web Hosting Setups
A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Sunbir Sidana
A Range of Web Hosting Setups
Depending upon the bandwidth available/required, graphic requirements, trade, mode of transaction and very importantly budget, there are a number of web hosting setups available in the market that may best fulfill your needs. Presented below is a summary of different kind of web hosting setups available in the market.
Dedicated Web Hosting Setup
This type of web hosting gives you more choices to have as many websites of yours as you want because a full server is dedicated to your website. You can access this server much in the same way as you access your PC. Dedicated web hosting servers are generally very expensive and are normally used by websites that encounter huge traffic everyday. Websites that normally are e-commerce sites or websites that are in the business of web hosting, that is, they share hosting accounts.
However, the server is not directly owned by you. You have to pay rent for the server, and the bandwidth required by you.
Shared Web Hosting Setup
As discussed above that some websites share hosting accounts and that is exactly what shared hosting is. It is basically that you are taking some space on the server of a web hosting company on rent and you have to pay the rent monthly for that disc space. This is by far one of the most common type of floating a website. In this case the disc space and bandwidth will depend upon the budget of the owner. Because of budget constraints and the reason that hundreds of others may host their websites on the same server the reliability may suffer.
Free Web Hosting Setup
If the owner does not mind an ad banner or two popping up on the screen then he may well be on his way to host his website for free! These free websites are great for small time users who just want a little publicity, who are not bothered about customer support, don't expect and want their website to grow and do not care about the performance and reliability of the site.
Their are two types of free web hosting. First, in which you are allowed to use you domain name and this type of Free Web Hosting is called "Free Virtual Hosting." The other type of Free Web Hosting is the one in which the name of the hosting company is present in your domain name. This kind is known as "Free Sub-Domain web Hosting."
Co-Located Web Hosting Setup
In this kind of web hosting service you own the server instead of renting it. In this kind, the server is yours but the internet connection is provided by the web hosting service provider. This is much in the same lines as Dedicated Web Hosting. This type of web hosting is of course reliable because the maintenance of the server is in your hands. The only drawback is the cost factor that rises steeply due to the ownership of the server and the need for more bandwidth. This kind of web hosting setup requires huge initial investment and is apt for a big corporations.
