If you are new in website hosting, you get a lot of things to understand. First, let’s start with some common terms in website hosting world you should know.

Share hosting

Share hosting usually uses single web-server box to handle a group of websites. One group may contain hundreds or even thousands of websites and each website might have to handle thousands of tasks at once. This is impossible to be done by humans. So, we need another system to do it. We need a tough server which can do it and that’s when the share hosting came. They’re tough and able to do most of website tasks better and faster. Also, since they are computer, you can also reduce the operational cost. This has been proven by so many companies, including bet365, a famous online betting platform. That is the reason website-hosting providers can offer you ‘affordable’ service that usually ranges around $4 per month.

VPS hosting

If you demand a private website hosting solution instead of Windows, Linux, or shared hosting solution, this Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting is the one you need. Dealing with high traffic is the most attractive feature of this hosting. So, if you are looking for high website performance regardless of how many people may visit your website, this hosting will answer your need.

Now, here is the common question people ask to us after we told them they can get outstanding performance, no matter how many people visit their website: is it possible?

Then, we answered, “Well, of course, it is possible.” Why? It is because this server will only care about your website, not other websites. That is how you will get all the speed.

These two points will show you other benefits you can get from this server.

  1.     You will be able to perform necessary actions on your website, such as website management, without affecting or getting impact from other websites
  2.    You will be able to minimize hardware-failure risk that may affect your website because this server uses shared equipment for its host. When one server down, another server will take the job while the damaged server will go under maintenance.

Dedicated hosting   

This hosting allows you use one or more computer to act as host for your website. Do not worry about other websites because other hosts will take care of it. The conclusion is: these other websites cannot ‘harm’ your damage if they experience high traffic. For all the benefits, it makes sense when their providers offer it at not-so-affordable price.

Colocation

Some website practitioners consider colocation as hosting solution similar to dedicated hosting. However, there are some differences lies between them. Colocation uses both software and hardware to make sure all answers you get are the ones you need to control, manage, and keep proper function of your website. Unlike other hosting solution, colocation will never touch the website host unless it needs to do it. When it touches the host, it is likely because it needs to make sure the host is still working properly. Another thing that differ colocation and other hosting solutions is complex processes it involves which results in higher cost than other hosting solution.