What are the different types of web hosting available in 2020
For a business to be successful in today's era, have to be online due to tremendous increase in the number of internet users day by day.
Whole world is growing in terms of technologies. In this situation a business should have their presence in the internet to increase their customer count.
If you are also a business person and thinking to be online, you will need 3 things with you:
A website - Describing about your business, services, products.
A Domain Name - Domain name should justify your business and easily remember-able to anyone.
A Hosting Space - A place where your website files and images will be kept and your domain name will be pointed to that files location.
When you have these things ready , your business is now online.
When dealing with a hosting space we should be clear about two things:
1. User traffic estimation:
If you website is a startup, you are expecting a low traffic at first stage, so you can start with the shared hosting.
If not, then you have to choose other hosting types from below.
2. Technical knowledge about hosting:
If you don't have knowledge about hosting and technology the go for shared hosting, which will be convenient for your startup website, otherwise go for Managed hosting if you have large traffic website with you.
1. Shared hosting:
This type of hosting is for the
- Starter websites who have low users traffic.
- Personal use of website
- Company website
These types of hosting server shares the same CPU (Central Processing Unit) and RAM (Random Access Memory) for all the websites hosted on same server.
For a website RAM,CPU performance is the important thing to be kept in mind before buying a web hosting server.
A large amount of processing website or high traffic website will not sustain this type of shared hosting.
This web hosting type is more easy and continent to manage and use , without any technical knowledge.
Pro:
-Cheapest web Hosting
Cons:
-This web hosting can be down any time, if there happens any fault in the hardware of the server.
-You cant' reboot your server.
-Don't have unique IP address for your website
-If the server goes down for the any reason, all the websites hosted on it will be down.
2. VPS (Virtual private server) hosting:
VPS is something which is not a private server but behaves like a private server with its assigned RAM and CPU processors.
In this VPS we have a space which don't share the full RAM and CPU of the server, but it have predefined allotted section of RAM and CPU to use.
So this is somehow better than a shared hosting server.
This also don't need much technical knowledge for set and hosting a website compared to a original private network.
This type of web hosting server are good for:
- medium sized websites
- Those who have less knowledge in hosting technology
Pros:
- You can restart your VPS
- If any fault occurs on your VPS, no other websites hosted on same server will be affected and get down.
Cons:
-This web hosting can be down at any time, if there happens any fault in the hardware of the server.
-You cant' reboot your server.
-Don't have unique IP address for your website
-If the server goes down for the any reason, all the websites hosted on it will be down.
3. Dedicated server hosting;
This one is the most effective web hosting type.
If you have good knowledge in web hosting or have a team , it would be best to have your own dedicated web hosting server.
Dedicated server have their own dedicated RAM and CPU for your website.
This type of web hosting is good for:
- Large size of website
- CPU based operations
- Multiple services
- high traffic bandwidth website
This type of web hosting needs much knowledge in hosting and its related technologies, so as to easily manage the website ,its service and all on the
dedicated server.
Pro:
- You can restart your server.
- have unique IP address for your website
Cons:
-This web hosting can be down any time, if there happens any fault in the hardware of the server.
4. Cloud hosting:
Cloud hosting is something that is not have a single hardware device, its distributed with multiple servers.
This is the best place to host your website , in terms of security, up time and performance.
If your website has large number of hits per day and needs high speed and performance, you should prefer for cloud hosting.
This web hosting is best for:
- Competition website
- high traffic based website
- secure website
- 100% Up time
- Fast speed websites
Pro:
- Your website can't be down, because it don't have any dedicated hardware with CPU or RAM.
Cons:
- Price is very high, compared to above.
- Need Professional knowledge for web hosting and maintenance.
5. Managed hosting:
This hosting is done by at your local end, whether you have your own hardware server which you use for web hosting.
This type of web hosting is good for:
- Large size of website
- CPU based operations
- Multiple services
- high traffic bandwidth website
Pro:
- You have full physical access to your web hosting server
- Easily Manageable in terms of hosting.
- Have dedicated IP address
Cons:
- You need to take care of your server from physical damages.
- You need full technological knowledge for both the hosting and the hardware as well.
- This web hosting can be down any time, if there happens any fault in the hardware of the server.
6. Colocation:
This hosting is shared by some own ,who have their server setup environment with all features like cooling, maintenance.
you will only get a physical space to setup your own physical dedicated server there and access it remotely for the web hosting.
Pro:
- You have full physical access to your web hosting server
- Easily Manageable in terms of hosting.
- You don't have to maintain your server physically.
Cons:
- You need full technological knowledge for the web hosting only
- This web hosting can be down any time, if there happens any fault in the hardware of the server.
Summary:
So, if you are plannig to buy any web hosting space or server , you have to keep above things in mind and then analyse your business scope and go for the best type of web hosting which are available for your website to be online in year 2020.Hope this article help you in getting your best web hosting for your website.