types of web-hosts

Types Of Web-hosts

1) Free Hosting

A free website hosting is a free non-paid web hosting service, usually supports forced ads on subscriber's website for earning revenue. 

• suitable when you are building web-sites for fun, education or practice
• However, it has limited features
• slow speeds, no uptime guarantee, advertisements

Example:

1. angelfire
2. tripod
3. wix
4. infinityfree.net

2) Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is web hosting in which the service provider serves pages for multiple web sites, each having its own Internet domain name, from a single web server. Most Web hosting companies provide shared hosting. Although shared hosting is a less expensive way for businesses to create a Web presence, it is usually not sufficient for Web sites with high traffic. These sites need a dedicated Web server, either provided by a Web hosting service or maintained in-house.

• It is recommended for beginners
• speed will be slow
• website performance is unpredictable
• It is a good choice for building personal & public web-sites and traditional blogs.

Example:

1. a small orange
2. GoDaddy
3. DreamHost
4. HostGator

3) Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internethosting service. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.

• It is the advanced version of shared hosting
• Your web-site has its own partition on the web-server
• Web-sites using VPS hosting do not compete for resources with other web-sites
• If you are a more advanced user and  you have consistent amount of traffic as well as reliability is important to you VPS Hosting is a good choice
• It is good for high traffic, e-commerce websites and websites that run resource intensive script

Example:

1. a small orange
2. DreamHost
3. HostGator

4) Dedicated Hosting

A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone else.

• You have the entire web server to yourself
• It is a good choice when there is a high traffic and security is important
• However, it is expansive

5) Managed Wordpress Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting is a concierge service where all technical aspects of running WordPress is managed by the host.The idea behind managed WordPress hosting is to offer a completely hassle-free experience, so you can focus on running your business and doing what you are good at.

• Excellent hosting environment and excellent features
• very high cost

Example

1. WP engine
2. pagely
3. synthesis
4. VPS.NET