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These three web sites types would require different amount of
Disk Space, Bandwidth and so on. Small Business Homepages make
the "smallest" web site type in the industry and there are
probably most of them exciting today. The best option for these
web sites is to purchase a Free or Shared (Virtual) web hosting
package.
Websites for E-commerce are the websites that require more disk
space and other resources and tools comparing to the previous
website type. As if your website is to sell some goods or
services you should expect for lots of visitors to come and
their higher requirements. As there is a high competition among
such sites and if your web site is down or if it doesn't operate
in a proper way you'll probably lose a number of your potential
clients and your profit as a result. Owners of such web sites
should notice that best web hosting types for them are
Co-location, Dedicated Servers (if you have a large
Eshop). And Shared/Virtual or Virtual Private
Server if you have no need in large Disk Space and Traffic
amount or some other resources.
Information Providers usually make the most demanding web site
types as they are to provide users around the world with the
necessary information. That would require much traffic spending.
So it's best for such web sites to be hosted on Dedicated
Server, Co-location or VPS (Virtual Private Server).
The classification mentioned above is a bit rough and that is
simply to give you the whole idea. Of course choosing a web
hosting plan would require information that is more specific.
Though no article can give a certain answer for example
considering the amount of Storage space you'd need for your
website. You may receive such information from the web hosting
provider's support team. In this article we can only tell you
about all the possibilities so that would be easier for you to
choose.
So coming back to web hosting types that have already been
mentioned above there is an obvious need in their more specific
description.
Free web hosting and Shared/Virtual web hosting
are similar in the way they are provided. In both cases you rent
disk space from the web hosting provider on its server. You
receive no control over the server's operating. Unlike
Shared/Virtual web hosting Free web hosting does not provide you
with any guarantees. So you get totally unprotected from the cheap web hosting
company's possible incompetence or its dishonesty.
Dedicated web hosting is mainly for large companies or
for resellers as the Disk space amount ranges from 800 MB to
25000 MB and even more. Most of Dedicated web hosting options
are to be managed and secured by your own highly professional IT
stuff. This could be pretty expensive too. Many cheap web hosting
companies today also offer such solution as Managed Web
hosting that leaves all of your concerns for the web hosting
company to solve. There is also a Dedicated web hosting subtype
and that is Co-location which means you place your own
sever in the cheap web hosting
company's Data Center. There are also two options of
Co-location depending on that who maintains your server. That
could be Managed and Unmanaged Co-location. These solutions work
same as Manage or Unmanaged Dedicated web hosting.
VPS/VDS (Virtual Private Sever/Virtual Dedicated server)
make the best solution for large web sites too. This web
hosting type took its place between Dedicated and Shared web
hosting and has got the best from both of them. It is organized
almost in the same way as Shared web hosting as you share one
physical server with other customers but you have your own
virtualized disk that is totally independent from other disks.
So you don't have to perchance too much Disk Space if you don't
need it and still have same security that is available with
Dedicated web hosting.
Today all the web hosting companies offer same web hosting
solutions and there is a difference in prices and plans content
only. So it would be more important for you to choose a cheap web hosting
company and to make plan defining the main parameters when
starting your Internet activity.
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