Types: Web hosting

Hardeep Kaur
2 min readFeb 4, 2023

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You have your website all ready, and you also have bought your own domain name. Now what? you want your website to be hosted on some server. There are different web hosting services available that allow different levels of customization on your web server. They may vary in price, availability, or performance. How would you choose one?

Shared Hosting

You can think of shared hosting as a shared apartment with a number of roommates. you’ll be sharing the pool, tv, kitchen area, and other stuff. you own them, but still, have to share them with others.

Shared Hosting is similar to that idea, there is a physical server that is being shared with a number of other clients of the hosting company

Therefore, the memory and computing power your site can use is affected by the needs of other service users.

They are best web hosting service for low to medium traffic sites.

VPS Hosting

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server.

Now think of the same shared apartment, but this time, you’ll be getting your own space for the same, which you can customize how you want.

On VPS hosting, users share the same server but with dedicated partitions. Therefore, websites can have more stable and secure performance due to allocated resources.

This is kind of suitable for medium-sized companies as it is the middle ground between a shared & dedicated server.

Cloud Hosting

With this, you get dedicated resources combining the user-friendliness of shared hosting with the capacity & reliability of virtual private server hosting.

It uses cloud technology to delegate the load of running the web to a virtual network of cloud servers.

It is highly suitable for startups, who constantly require consistent uptime.

Dedicated Hosting

With this, users can actually control the entire server and decide how many resources to allocate & what software to install.

It is suitable for big corporations & for large-scale projects

Before you choose a web hosting plan for your site, you can consider what kind of features you’re most interested in.

  • Security and Performance
  • Server Administration
  • Scalability.
  • Pricing

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Hardeep Kaur
Hardeep Kaur

Written by Hardeep Kaur

Software Engineer at Google, Ex- Smallcase

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