Different Web Hosting Types

There are different types of hosting like: shared hosting, reseller hosting, Cloud or cluster hosting, VPS server & dedicated server. Each type is different from each other in terms of nature, hardware & software configuration.

Shared hosting: In simple you can think of it as a house rented by many people, everyone is living there but the rooms and resources has been decided by landlord in accordance to rent they are paying. Now think of share hosting like this, in share hosting a single server is used by many customers to host their website contents or any other application.

Shared hosting is helpful for the beginners and small business websites because it’s cost effective and easy to manage at the beginning. Big portals & websites having videos and live streaming can’t be run on shared

hosting smoothly as they need high resources and good software’s to run with.

Reseller hosting: The word reseller gives an impression that, this service is related to some reselling activity. Yes it’s correct; basically this plan is made for the small hosting company’s, who want to begin or are in reselling business but not having budget to buy high end servers. It’s a cost effective tool for them to make good revenue with small expenditure. Reseller hosting help hosting customers to resell the space to his end clients with profit margin.

VPS Server: VPS means virtual private servers, It is the option between shared hosting and dedicated server, generally it’s been discovered for the customers who wants’ to get dedicated resources but don’t have the budget for dedicated servers. A single server resource is divided to create VPS servers, each server has its own configuration which is not utilized by any other VPS. Each VPS server performs like a dedicated server, it runs its own copy of its operating system; customers have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, and can install almost any software that runs on the OS.

Dedicated server: It is physical hardware and software configuration owing by an individual to host his applications. The customer has full control over the server and can utilize it accordingly. It’s very strong in processing and operations in comparison of other hosting platform like VPS and share hosting. Basically it’s been beneficial for them, who are having high traffic sites or need good processing speed and bandwidth. You can install any software of application at any point of time according to the server configuration. A dedicated server is having scalability, you can increase or decrease resources according to your need at any point of time.

Cluster hosting: Cluster means “a grouping of a number of similar things” In a normal web hosting environment, your site and its associated data will be located on one server in one location. This may cause problems if a server goes offline or the datacenter where your server is located goes down. So what’s the solution to this problem? Clustered hosting.

In a cluster hosting your data is placed on many servers located at different locations. So whenever any server goes down your site will be up by picking up the load from other server. Today cluster service providers commit 100% uptime for any website. Clustered server hosting is much more useful for extremely large, high traffic sites. Since multiple servers are handling the load balance, security and data resources, your site will run with greater efficiency than if it were on a single server.

Clustered hosting solutions are quite expensive and not for those who are on a budget. A cluster hosting solution is specifically meant for hosting a site or a network of sites and it can be costly, depending on the resource consumption.