Web hosting options

Dedicated hosting service
A dedicated hosting service, or a dedicated server, is when you don’t have to share a server with anyone else, as you are provided with your own hosting server. This means that the risk of virus attacks is reduced, along with the chances of your web site performance being affected.

Website performance is usually affected if you use a shared web hosting service, due to the chance of high traffic websites that share your server’s bandwidth.

A dedicated hosting service is much more flexible than shared hosting, as a business is able to have full control over the server. The web hosting company usually provides server administration as an add-on service.
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Managed hosting service
Managed hosting is when a web hosting provider lets you rent an entire server, and will then take full responsibility for the maintenance, running and backup.

This leaves you free to focus on your business. Managed hosting services are mostly for companies who don’t have the technical know-how and resources to carry out certain services out themselves. These services include building, installing and operating systems.
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Shared web hosting service
A shared web hosting service, or virtual hosting service, is when there is a single physical server but more than one instance of the same web server is hosted.

There are many people that share the overall cost of server maintenance which generally makes it the most economical option for hosting.
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Reseller web hosting
Reseller hosting is when websites are hosted on behalf of third parties. This happens when the account holder has the ability to use their allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host web sites.

The host’s services are purchased by the reseller, which are then sold to customers for a profit. The reseller account has a portion of hard drive and bandwidth allocated to it.

In order to do this, the reseller may rent a dedicated server from a hosting company or resell shared hosting services.
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Colocation web hosting service
A colocation centre, or a carrier hotel, is the rental of space for your telecommunications equipment, mostly consisting of dedicated servers, in the data centre of a service provider.

It is your responsibility for maintaining the hardware and to provide the server, but otherwise the benefits are similar to that of dedicated hosting.

Colocation saves time and costs which is why it is becoming so popular with web site hosting companies, due to using shared data centre infrastructure.
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