Often when shopping online or at your local mall you will see ‘Member of the Better Business Bureau, or BBB’ and right away you feel good about shopping at the site or store. But what is the Better Business Bureau and why does it is inspire confidence, especially when shopping for a web hosting company?
The Better Business Bureau is unlike the local Chamber of Commerce in the fact that it does not promote any web host over another. The BBB gathers information on hosting companies both private and non-private then publishes its findings in their reliability reports. The whole idea is to keep the consumer informed and let them read through all the available information to better formulate which web hosting company is one they want to deal with.
In the present situation more and more people are choosing Share Hosting Services because of a lack of knowledge. Shared Hosting looks very attractive to every one as they are the cheapest option available in the market. In the present scenario we must go for cheaper options but we must take care of the quality of services. Meanwhile there are other hosting options also which are not very expensive but more secure and reliable.
So, here are some existing types of web hosting services:
- Shared Web Hosting
- Dedicated Server
- Co-location Server Hosting
- Virtual Dedicated Server
- Managed Web Hosting
- Grid Hosting
- Exchange Hosting
- Business Email Hosting
- All these hosting can be hosted on two different hosting platforms.
- Linux or Unix Operating System
- Windows Server Operating System
Shared Web Hosting
The most popular web hosting service in today’s world. In this type of hosting there are a lot of sites are been hosted in the same server usually managed by some one company. Clients using this services have restricted access to their server. They just host a website and usually don’t use custom web applications. This type of hosting is well suitable to small websites. Even though it’s the most popular type of hosting its comes with some disadvantages, if one site is been abuses the service resource like spamming, or other bad activity, all other clients will be highly effected. Thus most prefer to go for other hosting service like Virtual Dedicated hosting.
Dedicated Server
Dedicated Server or Dedicated Hosting, is another but reliable type of hosting services, in which a customer leases a whole server not a shared one. This is more reliable and flexible than any other hosting services, as customer have full control, even can choose hardware, connection configuration, software and operating system. Usually customers maintain such server at their end or take a add-on from the host to maintain and manage uptime. This service are been used by medium or big companies or customers, mostly having huge traffic on their websites.
Co-location Hosting
There are datacenters around the world offering co-location web hosting solutions in which you buy your own hardware and software and they just give you the infrastructure to host your server at their location, they are responsible for network uptime and power uptime, even some companies manages co-location servers with an extra fee. In co-location hosting the monthly cost is less and reliability, security is equal to Dedicated Hosting. Co-location is comes with its own benefit but it’s not use full for simple web pages, its better for critical online applications. Its quite popular among big companies and big websites with online applications.
Virtual Dedicated
VDS (virtual dedicated server) is also a popular type of hosting, there are companies offering VDS over dedicated server as it has been cheaper to them as well as for customers. Customer usually transfers their growing websites to VDS then to a dedicated server. VDS are virtual servers using same server resources but with capability of a dedicated server. It’s better than shared hosting but lesser than Dedicated hosting, customer prefer it for growing websites.
Managed Servers
Basically there are two types of dedicated hosting managed and unmanaged. Managed hosting is one type of dedicated hosting service in which the host company manages the dedicated server as add-on, its better to opt for a managed dedicated server than a unmanaged server. Host companies are managing more servers and have more experience to run your server smoothly so it’s better to buy managed web hosting.
The easiest way to know you are dealing with an affordable web hosting company that you can trust is to check out the Better Business Bureau’s website which is BBB.org.