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Which Web Hosting To Go For

By Terry Viscottano


The Internet has changed a lot and now, every business needs to have a website at the very least. Having a website online offers a number of benefits, too: you are, for one, online 24x7 and are open for business round the clock. This is a major benefit for many businesses. Some, of course, may not have much use for it.

What should you do then?

You have to, for a start, get, web hosting. A web host provides some space on a server for you to host your files. It's important because you want your files online, 24 x 7, otherwise your website would be down more often than not. What makes it confusing, if only slightly, is the fact that there are numerous kinds of web hosting plans.

Shared web hosting plans are a good start for sites that get a few visitors a month. Shared hosting plans are generally on the less costly side and since they are fully managed, they are great to take you off the ground. You can easily get started with a shared host without spending a few hundred dollars. It doesn't have only upsides though-there are some fairly conspicuous restrictions.

Another well-known kind of web hosting is VPS. A VPS is a virtual environment set up on a remote server. This way, you can share a powerful server with a number of other people. A VPS can be great for sites that receive quite a bit of traffic but aren't very extensive resource hogs.

Dedicated hosting is another type of hosting. In simple words: it's an entire server that you pay for every month. It's for sites that get (a) a lot of traffic, and (b) are resource hogs. Tons of database queries? Need to run resource heavy programs on the machine? That's when you should choose a dedicated server.

The good thing about dedicated servers, or any other server, is that they are available in any region in the world. Want a Netherlands Server? It's very much possible. There are a number of uses of such a thing -- it's really up to you though. The downside of a dedicated server, if I have to be nit picky, is that they can be really, really expensive.

However, if you run a website that deserves a dedicated server, there shouldn't be a problem buying one. If you are concerned about the price, you may want to look into dedicated servers available in different locations, not just the US.




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