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web hosting All About Web HostingThe web hosting is divided into six categories: free, shared, reseller, virtual servers, dedicated servers and colocation services.

Free Hosting : Free hosting is extremely limited if compared with paid hosting . These services usually add advertising on sites and have limited space and traffic.

Shared Hosting
: In this type of service customers hosts multiple sites on one server, thanks to the web server configuration program. It is a good alternative for small and medium customers, it is not pretty expensive and a good hosting package that is designed for beginners.

Image Hosting : This type of hosting is offered to save your pictures on the internet, most of these services are free and pages worth of advertising placed on your page to upload the image.

Reseller Hosting : This hosting service is designed for large users or people who sell the hosting service to others. These packages have plenty of space and domain names available for each account. It is one of best alternative to earn money online.

VPS Hosting : By leasing a VPS Server, the company offers the control of a server that is not shared. So you can manage multiple domains easily and economically, as well as choose which programs are running on the server. Therefore, VPS Hosting is suitable for companies who are into web designing and web programming.

Dedicated Servers : The term dedicated server hosting India refers to an advanced form of web hosting in which the customer rents or purchase a complete server, and therefore has complete control and responsibility to administer it. Physical care of the equipment and Internet connectivity is the responsibility of the hosting company, which usually have it in a data center.

Colocation Services : This service is basically selling or renting a physical space of a data center so that the client can colocate there own server. The company provides the power and internet connection but the server hardware completely belongs to the service user.

Although, you may find many business website owners who actually choose a shared web hosting package or  a VPS to host their business website. This doesn’t mean that their website is not good or they did not succeed in getting good business. This actually means that their business requirements does not increase much and they do not need a dedicated server hosting as for now. However, when it comes to features, services, flexibility, reliability etc. you will find that the dedicated server hosting is definitely the best option. It can satisfy all the needs of your business website which will make sure that your business website keeps growing and offers you more Sales. You can check the benefits of dedicated servers below.

The first benefit is definitely the root administrator access or say the control which is provided over the dedicated servers. Due to the root access provided, you will be able to install the applications or services you may need for your business website.

The other benefit is the fact that the resources i.e. disk space, bandwidth and RAM offered are not shared with any other websites and the resources will be available for your websites only which ensures better performance and reliability. As the resources available by dedicated server hosting is not provided to any other websites, the resources will be used only by your websites and applications on the server.

Some of the hosting providers do not allow you to customize shared or VPS hosting packages and the only option is to upgrade your hosting package if you need more resources  i.e. disk space, bandwidth or RAM, however, when it comes to Dedicated Web Hosting, it is possible to customize dedicated servers as per your requirements. (Customization depends on the server configuration you choose).

Also, some of the hosting providers do offer hardware firewall with dedicated servers which is actually an good option when it comes to security as you will be able to block the IP’s which are trying to access your server for other reasons rather than viewing the websites hosted on it.  Though, Software firewalls are also a good option which can be installed on the Dedicated servers as root administrator access is provided. However, a hardware firewall is considered to be better for security. A shared hardware firewall is also provided by some of the hosting companies which can be used but you won’t get those privileges with a shared hardware firewall which are provided with dedicated hardware firewall.

Due to these and many more reasons, Dedicated Server Web Hosting is considered to be the best option for business websites. A shared or a VPS would be suitable to start with, however, when you develop and the website is growing, Dedicated Web Hosting is the option you should choose.