Web Hosting companies offer a wide variety of services to their clients depending on their requirements, but sometimes one does gets confused on what to opt for. It was the same case with me when I planned to move my blog to a paid hosting from a free hosting.
You can’t really trust those free hosting sites as they may close your site any time. This is what happened to my blogs. When I finally decided to move on to a paid hosting, I was thrown with various options and plans to choose. I was certainly confused. After doing some research I convinced myself that a Shared Hosting plan was quite feasible for my blog. But you may want to know what the other plans like Reseller Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Hosting Service
Shared Hosting:
Shared hosting is the cheapest and most affordable hosting services available. A shared hosting server hosts a number of websites and all the resources like disk space RAM, CPU etc. are shared among the hosted sites. Shared hosting usually works out for sites with average amount of traffic and fewer databases. They are easy to manage but the resources are limited.
Reseller Hosting:
You know that shared hosting is usually cheap and easy, but the resources are limited or sometimes unlimited*. Suppose you want to share your hosting with you friends or sell a part of your hosting to someone else, then Reseller Hosting is what you call it. Reseller Hosting is a service that allows you to resell hosting packages and you become an affiliate to the service provider.
For instance, you purchase a reseller account with 50GB of space, 500GB bandwidth, unlimited add-on domains and some other necessary features. Now, with every reseller account you (usually) get a Web Host Manager (WHM) that allows you to create and manage your hosting packages. You create 20 packages with each account consisting of 2GB space and 20GB bandwidth (Considering 5GB space and 100GB bandwidth for yourself). You can now sell these 20 accounts to any of friends or you can probably own a shared hosting service company itself! This is how reseller hosting works.
Reseller Hosting is pretty neat and quite lucrative if you know how to utilize it the efficient way. There are a lot of companies that sell reseller accounts. I’ll come up with an article soon, listing you the top most and best reseller hosting service providers.
Dedicated Servers and Virtual Private Server (VPS):
In a shared hosting, your site is hosted on a server with a bunch of other websites sharing the same disk space, RAM and other resources. Imagine your blog’s traffic is huge in number and definitely a shared hosting account cannot manage that enormous amount of traffic. Now, what if your blog requires additional resources or runs out of the limited features provided in shared hosting? The solution lies with Dedicated Servers. A dedicated server is a server that only hosts your website/blog and nothing else. Dedicated hosting are usually managed by the service providers, so the client has no issues or managing the servers.
Dedicated Hosting services are for those site/blogs that have enormous amount on traffic and large databases. They are quite expensive and vary from different companies.
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