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If you intend to bring your business online, web hosting is one of the essential terms that you must at least know what it actually does for you. Web hosting or web hosting service is actually the service provided by companies or the service providers that allows your web pages or website to be stored on a server (called the web server), which allows the web pages to be online or publicly viewed all over the world wide web.

In short, you can also say that web hosting is the house for your web pages which allows the web pages to stay and to be seen or accessed by public all over the world or Internet. When you need to have your web pages to be viewable or accessible over the world wide web, then you will need to get a web host, which is the house for your web pages to stay.

There are a couple of choices to choose the web host for your web pages, they can be broken down into the following categories.

1. Shared Web Hosting – Shared web hosting is a service that you need to pay for it, but will be the price range around 80$ to $120 per year. But your web pages or website will live in a web host that is shared by many other websites. It’s like sharing a house with many other tenants. And of course the resources in this house (web server) is to be shared by many of the websites. Shared web hosting should be suitable for website that gets less than 3,000 unique visitors a day or those use less resources (Resources are the memory, hard disk drive, operating system on the web server), e.g. static web pages. We’ll have a post later detailing some examples and reviews of shared web hosting and their pros and cons.

2. Dedicated Web Hosting – Dedicated web hosting is meant for website with huge traffic. Such as website that needs lots of resources, getting more than 6,000 unique visitors and with 10,000 page views and above etc. This kind of website is normally very dynamic that needs lots of resources. Dedicated web hosting is normally very expensive. It could range from USD $200 to $400+ per month for an entry level of web server that runs a Linux operating system. Unless you have a big budget to start for your website or it’s already started making a lucrative amount of income monthly which is sufficient for you to cover the dedicated web hosting monthly fee, and your website does really need it due to it needs lots of resources to support your very big groups of users. Dedicated web hosting is a web server or web host is fully dedicated for your use, which means the physical web server only stores all your web pages, and no other web pages stay in this web server. So all the resources will be used by your website and you have full access to everything on the server, such as root access etc.

3. VPS Web Hosting – VPS (Virtual Private Server) – VPS hosting could be the next choice if a shared hosting is not sufficient to sustain the traffic you have on your website. VPS is almost like dedicated web hosting, but the physical web server makes use of intelligent technology to slice out the resources, making it as if each website having its own dedicated but limited resources such as memory, HDD and OS. With VPS, you’ll also have your full root access as if you’re having your own full access to the virtual operating system of the web server. VPS web hosting normally ranges in the price of $40-$80++ per month. We’ll also have more prominent examples to tell the difference between VPS and dedicated web hosting in the future articles, and examples or reviews of VPS web hosting service providers.

4. Free Web Hosting – The above are all the basic paid web hosting services, but you may wanna know if there is free web hosting services out there. Perhaps the first question in your mind is “do I need to pay to get a web host for my website, if I wanna bring my website online ?”. Is there any free web hosting services out there? Yes, there are lots of free web hosting services, but there are lots of drawbacks of these free web hosting services. Such as the first and the annoying one is your website will need to carry some online advertisement banners from the FREE web hosting provider, which in return they make money from these advertisement added to your website so they can maintain providing free web hosting service to you. Please note that your web pages or web sites will have common header that comes with large rectangles of advertisement across, which is usually deemed very annoying for most people. And of course, free web hosting will normally be a web host that has pretty limited resources, and there will be many websites sharing this web host or web server as in shared web hosting. We’ll have a post that dedicates to introducing some examples and the reviews of FREE WEB HOSTING services.

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