When you create a website you must host it on a server so that the website can be available on the internet. This is where web hosting comes in. Web hosting is a service that provides individuals or organizations with online systems for storing images, videos, information or any other content accessible on the internet. 

There are plenty of web hosting companies that provide Web hosting and they range from Free hosting to Dedicated Hosting. Here we are going to discuss some different types of hosting that are provided by Web hosting companies.

Free Hosting

If you want to host a personal web site you can choose to host it for free. There are plenty of free hosts who will host your website for free. They will usually give you space in a directory under their domain, for example: thecompanysite.com/yoursite. I don’t recommend free hosting though especially if you are looking forward to make money from your site. Web hosting companies that provide free hosting won’t provide your hosting totally for free. They will put banners on your site to advertise their companies. By having banners on your site that are not related to your content you will lose a lot of visitors.

Shared Hosting

Shared web hosting allows you to host your website using a domain name that you own, for example: yoursite.com. You will be given a certain amount of bandwidth and diskspace on the server, however there are some few companies that allow you to have unlimited bandwidth and discspace (Recommendations are at the end of this article). This will give you a professional look to your Web site, which is much better than free hosting.

Dedicated Server Hosting

Dedicated server is the one where you rent the use of a whole machine. This can be used to host one or more of your websites. Since you are renting the use of a machine, you have total control over the software that will be installed on the machine. A major benefit of this kind of Hosting is that this allows increased traffic to your sites. .

Reseller Web Hosting

A reseller is a company or individual that purchases goods from another company and sells them at a higher price to another company or to other customers. Reseller web hosting plans allow you to be the web hosting company of yourself. Most web hosting companies themselves have a web hosting company who host their server. Some web hosting companies provide a service where small companies can resell web space on their servers for a small fee. 

Web Hosting Platforms

Windows

Microsoft’s solution to Web Hosting, Windows, is becoming popular with Web developers with its powerful ASP and ASP.NET programming options. It also integrates well with .NET server Technologies such as Commerce Server 2002, SQL Server 2000  and others. Recent advances in Windows Server technology and the release of the Windows 2003 Server provides what is now arguably the highest performance server environment. It provides exceptional support for the developer community and has a single vendor commitment to its ongoing development.

Unix

Unix is the traditionally the operating system of choice. It has been around a long time and some say it is the most reliable. Unix systems are less user-friendly than Windows systems. If you are developing a simple Web site, this should not be a problem, since your only access to the Unix server will be via FTP to upload your site. However, if you are developing an advanced site you will need to become more familiar with Unix commands.

My personal recommendation

I’ve been into the internet Business for some time now and I own over 50 domains. About half of them are developed websites and I host them all with Hostgator

Why?

Simple. This web hosting company has the best prices and benefits around. Allow me to demonstrate.

$4.95 monthly- Host one website with UNLIMITED Diskspace and Bandwidth. You will also benefit by receiveing free templates scripts and other stuff.

$7.95 monthly – Host an UNLIMITED number of websites with UNLIMITED Diskspace and Bandwidth. More free stuff is available than the one before.

NOTE: Very few companies allow you to have unlimited diskspace and bandwidth. The ones that do will definitley ask you for a higher price.

Needless to say they have 24/7 good customer support and very good and dedicated servers.

You can sign-up with host gator here

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It is really important for the web hosting business owners as well as for the end users to know what the web Hosting service should offer and which facilities should be included in a good plan. This will help the business men to provide their customers with right quality of amenities and also the customers to select the best service provider.

With the help of web hosting you can run a site, which will feature the information, images, audio files, videos and many more thoroughly describing the site’s purpose. Entire world will be able to know about your products, services and ideas through the web network. The main intention of web hosting is providing the customer with a server space on which he can store these files.

The disk space allows you to upload or save the codes and files which collectively make the website. The bandwidth is essential as it helps the site to handle a large number of visitors i.e. web traffic. You can also get the information from your web host that which type of customers are mainly accessing your website and how long they are staying on the web pages. This information is extremely helpful for those who wish to improve their Business from all aspects.

Another crucial benefit of web hosting is that you can create several e-mail accounts on your website which depicts sheer professionalism and also enhances customer reliability. You can very well understand that while communicating with the customers through email, if you send it from your website’s address, the customer will depend on you and will not question the credibility of the company.

Web hosting also allows you to create the databases which is simply indispensable for the online business owners. The other exciting features that you can add to your website with the help of a web host include shopping carts for e-commerce sites, forums, communities and chat panels. These features help in communicating with the customers and know their views on the site.

A well functioning server is the key to success for the web sites and the web hosting service plays an important role in this field. If the server crashes down every now and then, your visitors might have a problem viewing the site which is not desired at all. Even with shared web hosting or managed hosting you can get great server quality provided the host has a back up server.

Advertisement is one of the open business secrets that can be easily accomplished by the good web hosting services. It allows you to promote your products and services to the worldwide customer base which brings in thousands of potential customers increasing the sales several folds. Low cost web hosting service is another aspect of web hosting which is cost effective and affordable to everyone.

These are few of the important and remarkable benefits of web hosting and there are many others which you can understand only after availing this service from an authentic and renowned provider.

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Internet has become very useful now-a-days and every person today has an internet facility where one can browse and search almost everything possible. There is a possibility where you might have always thought of starting with your own personal website. Your search ends at a click of a button and surprisingly you get a wide choice to search from the list displayed for Free Web Hosting Services. Here the question comes to how wisely you choose the site and how efficiently will it help you? Web hosting services allows to cerate your own website, be it an organization or an individual, accessible through World Wide Web (www). A free web hosting service, as the name implies is free service but generally supported by an advertisement. But it is not sensible to accept whatever comes for free, just blindly. While choosing any Web Hosting Services that are free or charge you minimum you need to consider certain things that might be very important and helpful while choosing any site that offers you this service. There are several limitations that one comes across while choosing a site that offers a free web hosting service, clarify this and proceed. Firstly there is a limitation on the size of every file that is to be hosted and the bandwidth offered is comparatively smaller, moreover restrictions on certain files like MP3, ZIP etc, some free hosting services may make it obligatory for banner or pop ads in all the links, no uptime guarantee, limitation of custom URL, no pornographic allowed, immobilizing hotlinks of file, no advertising on website to be installed by customer. Keeping all these limitations in mind one should wisely choose a web hosting service that puts minimum restrictions for the owner of the site. Even if it is a paid up web hosting there are certain limitations that you may come across or the web hosts may charge you some extra amounts in order to act upon your will. A person who wants to have a website done for him needs to go through a lot of websites that offer him the web host services but has to keep in mind to consider the limitations laid on him or the services provided by them. It is not only there are limitations to be considered but a lot of sites provide some extra features that these web hosting services may offer, which may attract several individuals or organizations who want a website done for them. The attractive features and the benefits usually one gets while getting a website for him are many like a great storage, a control panel strictly a web based, free sign-ups or email accounts for the domain, drafting language like PHP, Perl etc., File transfer, providing MySQL, chronograph, guestbooks, free graphics, resources for community and forums, reward systems, unlimited space with no data limitation etc. These are certain features that a person might get attracted and choose a website. The more the benefits it provides, the better is the opportunity a person to choose that particular website to do the web hosting service for him. The websites who offer the web hosting services fro free or very less prices can recoup their costs either ways, by selling advertising on the consumer website or through referrals that means the free sign-ups are asked to refer this to a number of friends, lastly if the website hosting company is not doing good it can resell the hosting company to someone else by attracting a lot of customers. Thus keeping all the advantages and disadvantages in mind, one should wisely choose a web Hosting company by which he gets the most out of it for free or for a minimum charge. Think about the one which has lesser limitations and at the same time offers the maximum number of benefits.

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