We always need a shelter to live in this world. It is the same thing if you want your business to survive in the World Wide Web; it needs a shelter and this is known as the server. Web site hosting provides a place for your business website on the web hosting company’s server and offers some useful features to help promote your business. This will allow other Internet users to view the website around the clock. Web site hosting can be divided into various categories of services as offered by the website hosting company, and they include Shared Web Site Hosting, Dedicated Web Site Hosting, Co-location Web Site Hosting and VDS/VPS.
Now we'll take a closer look at what this site hosting options really mean. Shared Web Site Hosting is a service, which can be either provided free of charge or subscribed with a fee. In this kind of site, you can host multiple sites based on a single server, but with different domain names. Dedicated Web Site Hosting, as the name defines, provides a dedicated hosting server for an individual website without sharing the server with others, which can be accommodating several web sites at a time.
Co-location Web Site Hosting is a sub type of the above mentioned dedicated hosting. Here, the Web hosting provider hosts the customer server equipment at his data centre. The responsibility of the power supply and the overhead for connectivity is usually born by the web hosting company, while the customer takes care of all the data and work on the server. Concept of VDS/ VPS web site hosting type is based on dividing a physical server into several virtual ones. It is almost the same as the Dedicated server, but much cheaper than that.
After going through all the description of the above site hosting methods, one can choose the ideal site hosting method for their business. The decision should be made according to the size of your business and the features you need. And of course, the budget you are willing to invest to make your website a major success.