Various types of Web Hosting

When the web hosting are being talked, there are various types of hosting solutions are available to choose according to our different kinds of needs. In present there are lots of hosting companies provide wide range of packages for their customers to choose according to their needs.

Most commonly used hosting type is shared hosting which is also called as virtual hosting. In shared hosting, one particular server will be shared by certain number of clients. So the resources will be utilized by the users in a shared manner.

The next level of hosting is dedicated hosting where the clients are the only ones use their servers, they are dedicated for them as the name implies itself. So the amount of resources available for a particular user will be high compared with the shared hosting and much more sophisticated. But it will be expensive as well at the same time.

There are certain situations where clients are enabled keep their own servers in data centers. That is called as collocation. Unlike the previous two hosting types, in here clients are the sole responsible party for their servers. They will have to maintain their servers.

Another type of hosting is VPS hosting. It lies between shared and dedicated hosting. It is a kind of intermediate one. In VPS hosting certain number of clients are using a partitioned server. That means one particular portion of server is dedicated to one particular client and it is not dedicated hosting.