| What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, | | | | typically starts at $50 per month and can range up to |
| what you see on your web browser is essentially | | | | $200 - $500 per month. As a result, dedicated |
| just a web page that is downloaded from the web | | | | hosting is regularly used by high traffic and extremely |
| server onto your web browser. In general, a web | | | | important website. |
| site is made up of many web pages. And a web | | | | Co-location hosting |
| page is basically composed of texts and graphic | | | | In dedicated hosting, the web server belongs to the |
| images. All these web pages need to be stored on | | | | web hosting providers and customers only rent the |
| the web servers so that online users can visit your | | | | web server during the hosting period. While in |
| website. | | | | co-location hosting, the customer owns the web |
| Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, you | | | | server hardware and only housed their web server |
| will need to host your website on a web server. | | | | within the web hosting provider's secure data center. |
| When your website goes live on the web server, | | | | In this way, the customer has full control over their |
| online users can then browse your website on the | | | | web server and simultaneously benefit from the 24/7 |
| Internet. Company that provides the web servers to | | | | server monitoring and maintenance provided by the |
| host your website is called web hosting providers. | | | | secure data center. Depending on the monthly |
| A well-established web hosting provider sometimes | | | | bandwidth and rack space required, typically |
| hosts up to thousands of websites. For example, | | | | co-location hosting range from $500 - $1000 per |
| iPowerWeb is a popular web hosting company that | | | | month. |
| hosts more than 300,000 websites. For that reason, | | | | Reseller hosting |
| a web hosting company need many web servers | | | | In reseller hosting, a web hosting provider offers |
| (essentially, these are computers) to 'store' the | | | | web server storage to third-party (i.e. reseller) at a |
| website. And all these web servers are connected to | | | | discount price, who then resell the web server |
| the Internet through high speed Internet connection | | | | storage to their customers. Typically, resellers are |
| and housed in a physical building called 'data center'. In | | | | web consultants including web designers, web |
| order to guarantee all the web servers are safe, | | | | developers, or system integration company who |
| secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a | | | | resell the web hosting as a add-on service to |
| physically secure 24/7 environment with fire | | | | complement their other range of services. Commonly, |
| protection, HVAC temperature control, virus | | | | resellers can receive up to 50 percent discount on |
| detections, computer data backup, redundant power | | | | the price of a hosting account from the web hosting |
| backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities. | | | | provider. And resellers are allowed to decide its own |
| What are the different types of web hosting? | | | | pricing structure and even establish its own branding |
| There are different kinds of web hosting companies | | | | (in other words, reseller setup its web hosting |
| out there with different characteristics. The main | | | | company on the Internet and start selling web |
| types of web hosts can be organized into the | | | | hosting plans under its brand). |
| following categories: | | | | To the reseller's customers, the reseller is the web |
| Shared Hosting | | | | host provider. In cases when technical problems such |
| In shared hosting (also known as virtual web hosting), | | | | as server down and access problem arise, the |
| many websites are sharing the space on the same | | | | resellers will have to correspond directly with the |
| physical web servers. Depending on the web host, a | | | | actual web host provider. Due to the communication |
| physical web server can hosts a few hundred to | | | | process taken place between customer to reseller |
| even thousand of different websites at one time. | | | | and from reseller to actual web host provider and |
| You may wonder if a physical web server is shared | | | | back and forth, undoubtedly problems will take longer |
| by so many websites, will the performance of the | | | | time to resolve. Unless you are running your own |
| web server deteriorate? In fact, web servers are | | | | personal website or non-profit website and willing to |
| usually equipped with high-end powerful computer, | | | | take the risks of poor support from the reseller, |
| therefore it can support up to a certain number of | | | | reseller hosting is generally not a good option. |
| websites without any problem. But when the web | | | | However, the web hosting market today is filled with |
| server is overloaded and exceeded the reasonable | | | | resellers that sell lowest price web hosting plans. So, |
| number of websites that it can support, then you will | | | | how do you tell between a genuine web hosting |
| begin to experience a slower response from the web | | | | provider from a reseller? You don't judge by the |
| server. | | | | availability of toll-free number alone because some |
| However, a reputable and experience web hosting | | | | web hosting providers even offer their resellers with |
| provider will constantly monitor the performance of | | | | their own toll-free number for co-branded technical |
| the web server and will add new web servers when | | | | support. When the reseller's customer calls the |
| deem necessary without sacrificing the benefits of | | | | number for technical support, the web host uses the |
| the website owners. Since a physical web server is | | | | reseller's name so the customer thinks that the |
| shared (diskspace, computer processing power, | | | | support is coming from the reseller directly. Likewise, |
| bandwidth, memory) by many websites, the web | | | | don't be fooled by the professional designed website |
| hosting provider can therefore afford to offer a | | | | alone because it is extremely easy to create a |
| lower hosting price. For the same reason, websites | | | | professional looked business website nowadays. |
| on the shared hosting would have to accept slower | | | | In general, resellers can be distinguished from their |
| server response time. Typically, shared hosting plans | | | | hosting price and company information. In most |
| start at $5 - $20 per month. | | | | cases, a genuine web hosting provider has solid |
| Dedicated Hosting | | | | company information such as where they publish its |
| In contrast to shared hosting, dedicated hosting | | | | financial background, offices and data centers. In |
| assigned a specific web server to be used only by | | | | contrast, resellers usually do not have solid company |
| one customer. Since a dedicated web server is | | | | background (here is just an example out of |
| allocated to only a single customer, the customer has | | | | thousands out there). Moreover, the hosting price by |
| the option to host single/multiple web sites, modify | | | | resellers is generally below $5 per month. So, why |
| the software configuration, handle greater site traffic | | | | settle for resellers when you can find genuine web |
| and scale the bandwidth as necessary. Therefore, | | | | hosting providers offering superb quality web hosting |
| dedicated hosting commands a higher premium and | | | | at the hosting price ranging between $7 - $10. |