Different Types of Web Hosting Provider

No doubt, choosing the best web hosting provider is the most crucial thing in web hosting. But without knowing about the types of the web site hosting providers you may never be able to make the right choice. First of all you must analyze and determine that either you want Windows hosting provider or you want Linux/UNIX web hosting provider. Some of the major types of the web site host providers are as follows:

Free Web Hosting Provider

Normally these kinds of host are not reliable. They offer free web hosting services. Features provided by them are also very basic. Moreover they will also give some free gifts to your site. These free gifts include, ads of different companies placed on your website, popup, less reliability, minimum uptime and so on. Any person, who can afford these, will surely choose free web site host or provider.

Cheap Web Hosting Provider

These kinds of hosts are also not very much reliable but better than free hosting providers as they will never irritate you by imposing extra material on your website. Shared hosting providers and reseller hosting providers are also the examples of cheap hosting providers.

•  Shared Hosting Provider

A shared hosting provider provides shared hosting services to its customers. Shared hosting is a type of web hosting in which a web server is shared between several websites. The web server behaves like a virtual server therefore it is also called virtual hosting.

•  Reseller Hosting Provider

A reseller hosting provider is a person who purchases a plan from the actual host and then resells it to several customers by self becoming a host.

Business Web Hosting Provider

Web hosting service providers that lie in this category are generally expensive and offer several advance features along with the standard basic features. Also they will never irritate you by ads or popup. They are much more reliable and will provide you maximum uptime. They must be the first choice of any sensible business person who wants to flourish his online business.

Dedicated Web Hosting Provider

Dedicated web host providers support dedicated hosting. There are two categories of dedicated hosting providers i.e. managed hosting provider and unmanaged hosting provider. A managed hosting provider will also provide server maintenance services, along with the basic (disk space, data transfer, internet etc) services.

Collocation Hosting Provider

Collocation hosting internet providers support collocation hosting. Collocation hosting is similar to dedicated hosting but in collocation the customer has to purchase the entire server instead of renting it from the host as in dedicated hosting.