The term
web hosting is very common for example like car. There is a lot different kinds
of it, so I’ll try to give descriptions of different types of hosting.
Shared Hosting
Today
shared hosting is the most popular and reasonable kind of web hosting. Resources
of one server are distributed between users without any severe restriction.
Such scheme allows to place a great number of accounts with good quality of
service and low pricing. Usually web hosting provider places 400-700 accounts
on one server. This number of accounts is optimal to achieve normal performance
of all accounts. As a result shared web hosting is very cheap an and rather qualitative
service. From the other side such type of web hosting is not sutable for
serious projects, which require 100% uptime and fast loading.
VPS\VDS hosting
VPS means Virtual
Private Server, VDS means Virtual Dedicated Server. Such kind of web hosting is
logical evolution of shared hosting. The deferent is next: you account
performance is rather more independent from other accounts. To achieve that they
use OS virtualization technology, in other words you get your own copy of OS
with assured limit of memory and CPU. At present moment such service is most
stable on the market of web hosting offers.
Cluster Hosting
Cluster
hosting resembles shared hosting, but there is one very important difference:
you website works not on one server. It uses a number of servers which are
united in one group. When one of these servers fails productivity of your
website decrease, but website continues to work. Such technology allows to combine
high quality of service with low price. It is sutable for those who need
maximum uptime and a lot of resources, but don’t want to pay a lot.
Dedicated server
This kind of service in fact is server rent. You
rent whole server. Such way is the most optimal for your business projects. In
that case you have no any “neighbors” and you site uptime will be maximum. Such service costs approximately
200-250 $ per month.