Types of Web Hosting - By Tony Alves
Creating your own website can be part of starting an online home business or sharing family photos or newsletters. Of course, almost any business has their own website now, so web hosting servers are more in demand every day. For a beginner, the internet, websites and web hosting can be a confusing technology to learn. Finding a web host is a large part of your website’s exposure to the Internet. There are different sizes and types of web hosting.
Many web hosts come with a domain name and email address as part of their hosting service for your website. There are different types of web hosting, so it depends on what your web host offers or what package you choose. It also depends on the web host server’s capacity and how much bandwidth and disk space is available. Since images, photos and flash take more space than text, you need to be sure your web host can handle future growth for your website, especially for a start-up home business.
Free Web Hosting is usually used for a small, personal or low traffic website, such as displaying the family newsletter or pictures, or a local scrap-booking club website. Free web hosting services are not recommended for high traffic sites because you are offered little in the way of services or technical support, and they may not be capable of providing large amounts of bandwidth, disk space or accommodate many visitors to your site.
Free service sometimes includes free email service, but usually does not include domain names, so you would need to purchase that separately. There are some of the search engine giants that offer nominal fee services, but many domain names and capacity is being quickly used, even on their sites. You need to research your types of web hosting to avoid having to change addresses to your web page as visitor traffic grows.
Another type of web hosting and the most commonly used is Shared or Virtual Hosting. Your website is hosted on a powerful server along with other web sites. It offers more technical support and often includes several email accounts, and a domain name. There is a cost involved, but often it is nominal and worth the extra growth capacity.
Dedicated Web Hosting is often used by large corporations and high traffic web sites. It is expensive compared to a shared web host, but support is much more technical, with more email accounts, capacity and software for editing and other things.
Collocated hosting is where you locate your computer at another location for security, support and protection. It is the most expensive, and is normally for highly sensitive operations, and not commonly used except when necessary.
SEO Web Hosting is a more specialized web hosting service that involves Class C IP addresses that maximizes SEO or Search Engine Optimization websites that use keyword density. An SEO Web host will be able to advise you how to have your webpage optimized for a specific keyword and set up your IP, to avoid your emails or articles being flagged as spam.
Without web hosting you can’t have a webpage or website on the Internet so you must get webhosting. But before you do, you must do your research to make sure you pick the right type of web hosting to meet your immediate as well as your future needs.
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Tony Alves
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