Don’t feel uneducated if you are not familiar with all the technological terminology used by IT gurus describing kinds of web hosting. Nevertheless, it will do us not harm to become a little bit edified on some of the web hosting basics.
Web hosting, sounds much more complicated than it is. All websites on the internet, is kept on a computer at some place in the world. Your web address serves as a direction to the computer where your website is kept. The computer where your website is kept, is called the web host.
The computer where your site is stored are referred to as the web host which provides you with web hosting and the web host are eligible to charge you to keep your site on his computer or serving as a web host to your site.
If you do not need a very professional web site and only use it for personal use, simple information such as a social club, free web hosting will serve you well. However, due to the amounts of unavoidable advertisements and banner pop ups, this option is not recommended for a business site. Although, nothing in life is really free and the advertising will be the price to pay for you free web hosting, because in some way or other, the web host has to generate some kind of income to afford the hosting.
Shared hosting is another option to look at seeing that with cost from as low as $1 per month it can serve you with less or even no unwanted advertising and it is affordable. Shared hosting is a good option if you want a small web site for your business or personal use.
If you are looking for the Ferrari of web hosting, dedicated hosting is what you are looking for, but be aware, you will be paying for your Ferrari! Dedicated hosting is expensive but most reliable and the most protected kind of hosting. Small and medium sized businesses are most likely to find this option not being effective for their needs due to the cost involved. Large companies will benefit the most out of this type of hosting due to the high demand of traffic it can handle. With dedicated hosting a whole server are put to the disposal of an individual user.
A website owner who wants to make use of their own hardware and have complete control over their system are making use of collocated hosting. All they make use of is the service of storing their server with a service provider’s data centre.
