How To Know Which Hosting Service Is Right For You

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



When your business has a presence over the internet, the most important decision you may ever need to make is the type of web hosting plan to avail for your website. There are a lot of choices to be made as a lot of companies and organizations offer a lot of products to suit companies of different sizes with different needs and different technical knowledge.

For small to medium-sized enterprises where data storage, speed and bandwidth are not a major concern, a service called ‘Virtual Hosting’ may suit your needs. Virtual hosting is sometimes called an internet space provider. Basically, the hosting company provides assistance in domain name registration, allocation of file storage, directory setup for website files, email addresses and they even website creation services. Virtual hosting will only require you to have a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program to upload files to a virtual host.

At the other end of the spectrum is Co-Located Hosting or Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting. If you are very sophisticated and knowledgeable when it comes to anything that has to do with the internet, this may be for you. While web hosting hold your hand step-by-step, virtual dedicated server hosting allows you to buy a web server that is located at a third-party facility that is designed for this very reason. It has secured cages or cabinets, regulated power, continuous or dedicated internet connection and support. This option minimizes the risk of fire, theft or even vandalism compared to physically housing your servers in your own offices. This option is perfect for large corporations where bandwidth, storage and even location are not issues.

Dedicated Hosting comes between the two options discussed above. Dedicated servers hosting combines technical support and assistance offered by virtual hosting with the accessibility and stability of your own server that is offered by co-located hosting. You are able to control most of the functionalities of your website. Dedicated hosting is perfect for companies who are not willing to invest heavily in operating a server in-house.

Dedicated servers hosting allows you to rent servers that are pre-configured from your service provider. While virtual hosting requires you to share server space, bandwidth and the like with other customers, dedicated hosting provides you the opportunity to have a server allocated exclusively for you. You have total control over your web presence, you can install any software or any application you wish, you can customize storage space to suit your organization’s needs. So if you wish to implement custom software, you require a lot of storage space for you data, a large amount of bandwidth and you are concerned about security, this option may be for you.

Bear in mind that with great power come greater responsibility. You may have total control over your website and all the other things that go with it, but dedicated hosting also requires experience and a high level of technical knowledge. This option is really not for beginners.


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