Beginner's Guide

-What is web hosting?

-Choosing a domain hosting company

-Should I use my domain registrar as my web host?

-Help desks and support forums


Types of Hosting

-Shared or Virtual Hosting

-Dedicated Hosting

-Virtual Dedicated Hosting

-Reseller Hosting


Hosting Q&A

-Which is the best host?

-Can I host my own site?

-What about free hosting?

Dedicated Hosting

Types of Domain Hosting

Dedicated hosting means you get your own physical server for your web site and can be significantly more expensive than shared hosting. Because your website is alone on a dedicated server, performance will be excellent.

Dedicated hosting is appropriate for web sites with a lot of traffic that need computing power beyond that of a shared solution. Typically, if a web site on a shared host becomes very popular and is full of complicated to serve pages, a dedicated host could be necessary.

Dedicated hosts can come in two types. A managed dedicated server will be kept up to date by the hosting company. This means software updates and patches will be handled by the hosting company. An unmanaged server is completely yours to deal with.

A dedicated hosting plan will offer root access to completely control the server, as well as a number of dedicated IP addresses for the server.

Dedicated Hosting - The Good

Top notch performance
No threat of security breaches because of other sites on a shared server


Dedicated Hosting - The Bad

Expensive
If not hosting company managed, requires more know how to run


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