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Types of Web Hosting -Shared Web Hosting
By admin | October 28, 2007
There are various types of web hosting solutions available today. The highly competitive environment has seen different types of websites requiring different set of features and resources and in response web hosts have come up with different types of webhosting catering to demands of specific sectors.
Depending on your needs, you can choose from one of several webhosting solutions and therefore it is important to research and evaluate the services to understand which type of webhosting is right for you. If you’ve been having difficulty understanding and determining that, this article was written just for you.
In this series of blogs I will start with an intro of shared web hosting and then go on to provide a general overview of other most common types of web hosting services available along with their advantages and disadvantages, as all other types of web-hosting are simply variations of these four basic types of hosting.
Shared Web Hosting: - Shared web hosting (also called web hosting) is the most common type of hosting service used. As the word implies, shared web hosting means that all customers are sharing one server (CPU time, memory, OS, applications, bandwidth, etc) with a number of clients of the hosting company. The webhost manages the server to ensure uptime, upgrading hardware and software. The cost of shared hosting often depends on the number of clients being hosted on a server as the hosting company tries to maximize profits per server. As a shared hosting client you will have no control over the server but full control over your website through a control panel.
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