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7 Types of Web Hosting Plans

As a blogger, I have written many articles about web hosting, which is a necessity of website-building. However, among all the posts about web hosting, until now, I haven’t found one article that are appropriate to those newbies who are not familiar with hosting plans.

But fortunately, through this article, you can a detailed but simple introduction about web hosting:

1. Free Web Hosting

Free web hosting services are free of cost and can come in a packages offered by the web hosts. If you are not ready to build a official site, it is wise to try free hosting plan because it won’t cost any money even if you throw it away at last.

Usually, it is difficult to find a stable web hosting plan because it is free absolutely.

2. Shared Web Hosting

The basic idea behind shared web hosting is distributing the web server among multiple websites. As you share server with others the providers are able to offer its customers very reasonable prices. The shared hosting segment is an extremely competitive one, meaning it could be difficult to choose a provider.

3. Managed Web Hosting

Managed hosting is just a step ahead than the dedicated hosting. This managed web hosting service includes additional features which are not available with the dedicated web hosting.

4. Reseller Web Hosting

The account owner can make use of his/her allotted bandwidth and hard drive space to host their websites on behalf of third parties. This is beneficial for those who want to go for an e commerce business.

5. Dedicated Web Hosting

The website is hosted in a single server dedicated for that client only. This server is not shared with any one else all the benefits of the server can be experience by the single owner.

This is more reliable and flexible than any other hosting services, as customer have full control, even can choose hardware, connection configuration, software and operating system. Usually customers maintain such server at their end or take a add-on from the host to maintain and manage uptime. This service are been used by medium or big companies or customers, mostly having huge traffic on their websites.

6. Colocated Web Hosting

Colocation refers to “co-location”. This is a solution which enables a user to place his/her own web server within the premises of a web hosting service provider.

There are datacenters around the world offering colocation web hosting solutions in which you buy your own hardware and software and they just give you the infrastructure to host your server at their location, they are responsible for network uptime and power uptime, even some companies manages colocation servers with an extra fee.

7. Grid hosting

With the development of bandwhith and the Internet, grid web hosting appears, which is essential when the server cluster behaves in the form of a grid and consists of several nodes.

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