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Choosing the right website hosting solution can sometimes very easily mean the difference between life and death for your website. There are a few options and each has its own perks and benefits, but also downsides, which is why you need to choose carefully. This is why it is necessary to plan ahead and see the full potential that your website can achieve. Should you think that you stumbled into these waters unprepared and have no clue as to what your options are, I will try to solve some mysteries regarding hosting and how it functions for you.

Primarily, I will list for you some of the most popular solutions that can be found. They will be ordered according to the quality of service that they provide. I will, later, go on and explain each of them more broadly, just so that you can skip wandering through the dark.

The four most popular hosting solutions are:

Shared hosting
VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting
Dedicated hosting
Cloud hosting

There is still a debate going on about whether cloud or dedicated provide better service, but, in my opinion, cloud hosting provides a bit more penny’s worth than dedicated, as I will explain later.

Shared hosting

Shared hosting means exactly what you think it means. There is a server somewhere out there, and you pay for a piece of that server to be yours. That server is shared with a few other users and they all use its resources. This, of course, means that the security is rather low. Also, you will have little, or no, control over the setup of the server and your capabilities will be quite limited. Because of all this, this is not the option that would be recommended for anyone aside from people who own websites with little to average traffic. For them, this is the right solution, because it comes cheaply.

VPS hosting

VPS (or Virtual Private Server) hosting is somewhat similar to the shared hosting option. It is similar because, once again, you pay for a container on a server which is shared with a few other people. However, the difference is that, within this container, you get allocated resources just for you. These resources include disk space, RAM, Bandwidth and CPU. With these, you are free to do as you please, and no amount of traffic that the other users experience will take these away from you (unless the whole server crashes). Also, another better thing about this type of hosting is that you get to use the control panel, which will enable you to adjust just about

anything in your container, including rebooting at will and allocating container resources as you wish. This solution is a bit more expensive than the shared hosting option, but, you get more value for your money and more flexibility. This is why it is suitable for those people who own moderately visited websites. Also, VPS has great security and the providers usually offer full support, at any time.

Dedicated hosting

Here, we come to a solution which involves you obtaining a complete server just for yourself. This server gets stored in the data center of the provider and you have all the benefits of having your own server machine. You have the option of choosing the level of support that you require, which ranges from full to none. If you wish, you can have your own people look after the server, as long as you do not physically damage it. Using your own server also allows you to have full access to it, you can change whatever you like on it (yes, this includes the operating system, as well) and, of course, you will be completely protected. The biggest problem here, however, is hardware change. If you wish to change something in the machine, you have to power it down, change and then power it up, again. This might sound simple, but it isn’t, and it can easily get more complicated. And, should anything happen to the machine, you will have to rely on the backup of your website (if you have made one).

Cloud hosting

This is the youngest member of the hosting family. It is, also, similar to shared hosting, but, the key difference here is that you do not share one server, but a group of servers (or, a cloud). This brings new possibilities, such as taking as much resources as you need. Should your website experience a great spike in activity, you will be able to allocate more resources from one of the servers and you will not have to suffer any downtime. The flexibility with which cloud hosting solution operates is its primary advantage over all the other solutions. Also, this means that, instead of paying ahead for the resources, you pay for what you have used. Operating in a cloud also enables other servers to cover for one malfunctioning machine, which means that, should one of the servers crash, your website will remain up and running.

So, hopefully, I have managed to clear up some confusion about the different options and web hosting services. All of these hosting solutions are available to anyone who can afford them, it is up to you to decide which one suits your needs the most.