Choosing a web hosting plan for you website or application is tricky business. There are a number of hosting options available including Shared,VPS,Dedicated, Reseller and Clod. Only Reseller web hosting works differently as compare to other hosting plans. Let’s First try to understand the meaning of Shared,VPS,Dedicated, Reseller and Cloud hosting and than we will see which one is best suited for your requirements.
Shared Hosting
A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service or derive host refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site "sits" on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites. This is generally the most economical option for hosting, as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance. [According to wikipedia]
In shared hosting server resources including RAM,CPU and Disk Space shared among multiple customers. All websites share the same IP and server hostname with shared hosting. Shared hosting does not allows you to install custom software’s on hosting server. This type of hosting is best suited for low traffic websites. Shared hosting is less secure as compare to VPS or dedicated hosting because one file system is shared among hundreds of accounts.
Virtual Private Server Hosting
A Virtual Private Server is a method of splitting a physical server into logical server. Each virtual server run it’s own operating system . The physical server typically runs a hypervisor which is tasked with creating, destroying, and managing the resources of "guest" operating systems, or virtual machines. These guest operating systems are allocated a share of resources of the physical server, typically in a manner in which the guest is not aware of any other physical resources save for those allocated to it by the hypervisor.
Virtual Private Server hosting bridge the gap between Shard hosting and Dedicated hosting. In VPS hosting customers can install any software that is supported by VPS operating system. Certain software does not run well in a virtualized environment, including firewalls, anti-virus clients, and indeed virtualizers themselves; some VPS providers place further restrictions, but they are generally lax compared to those in shared hosting environments.a VPS generally has limited processor time, RAM, and disk space. To date, no industry standards have been set to clearly define the management role of dedicated server providers. What this means is that each provider will use industry standard terms, but each provider will define them differently. For some dedicated server providers, fully managed is defined as having a web based control panel while other providers define it as having dedicated system engineers readily available to handle all server and network related functions of the dedicated server provider.
Virtual Private Server hosting is best suited for An e-commerce site with multiple large databases (i.e. product catalogs, etc); high traffic websites websites having dynamic content.
Dedicated Hosting
A Dedicated Hosting is a type of hosting in which customers leases an entire server including hardware, operating system. Server administration is add-on by hosting company. This type of hosting generally used by organizations because they have full control. Dedicated servers most often housed in data centers.To date, no industry standards have been set to clearly define the management role of dedicated server providers. What this means is that each provider will use industry standard terms, but each provider will define them differently. For some dedicated server providers, fully managed is defined as having a web based control panel while other providers define it as having dedicated system engineers readily available to handle all server and network related functions of the dedicated server provider.
Dedicated server hosting providers may provide the following types of server managed support:
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Fully Managed – Includes monitoring, software updates, reboots, security patches and operating system upgrades. Customers are completely hands-off.
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Managed – Includes medium level of management, monitoring, updates, and a limited amount of support. Customers may perform specific tasks.
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Self Managed – Includes regular monitoring and some maintenance. Customers provide most operations and tasks on dedicated server
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Unmanaged – Little to no involvement from service provider. Customers provide all maintenance, upgrades, patches, and security.
Cloud Hosting
Cloud Hosting is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing. Removing single-point of failures and allowing customers to pay for only what they use versus what they could use. Cloud Hosting will save money for your business and at the same time not allow you to spent more than your requirement. Cloud computing providers also allows let you to choose operating system and will give you the self-service flexibility offered through dedicated hosting, offer flexible billing, and server configuration controls via an API or web-based interface.
