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What Hosting service should you choose?
Consider your specific needs
Hosting Requirements
When deciding which hosting service is right for you, it is important to know your requirements ahead of time. Here are some things to consider before making your decision:
1) Specific Requirements such as traffic needs or specific software versions
2) Overall Budget
3) Technical Expertise
4) Time Commitment
5) How much you need to scale over time
Sharing the cost
Shared Web Hosting
Shared hosting is a form of web hosting where your website is hosted on a server that is shared with many other websites. You get the cost savings by sharing the resources but are limited to how the hosting provider configures the server. Here are some things to consider:
- Could make your website slower because it’s a shared space
- If another website in your shared hosting gets hacked, you’re at risk of being compromised
- Most affordable hosting plan
- Recommended for beginners and users building their first website
- Less secure and weaker performance than other types of hosting
- Fast to get set up and working
Things to watch for:
- Cheaper first year prices while actual price is more expensive subsequent years
- A lot of hosts will try and upsell features you don’t need
- If you have very specific requirments for software versions you may be limited to what the shared host provides
Virtual Private Server
VPS Hosting
- Server specifically allocated just for you
- Server sits on hardware shared with other private servers
- Cost is about $10-50 per month
- Freedom to configure software and resources according to your exact needs
- Freedom with VPS Hosting comes at the cost of more responsibilities
- You are responsible for configuring and setting up the server software and fixing all issues
- Technical knowledge is a must for VPS Hosting
- Use VPS for growing websites with many plugins and heavy functionality
- Great flexibility to configure servers and resources
Benefits:
- Guaranteed resources allow for a more powerful server
- More secure than shared hosting
- Best value for money
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Bare-Metal Server
Dedicated Hosting
- Dedicated Physical Server just for you
- Complete freedom but you are responsible for everything involved your server
- Freedom to install your preferred software and OS
- Able to have the exact hardware specifications you require
- More flexible and secure than VPS or Shared Hosting
- Hosting service with the most freedom but the most responsibilities
- Most expensive hosting type at $50-$250 per month
- Dedicated hosting is recommended for very specific use cases like game servers or media streaming websites
Responsibilities:
- Installing software
- Maintenance and updates
- Monitoring hardware for problems
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Reliable and Scalable
Cloud Hosting
Public cloud is a service that gives you all the benefits of a virtual private server but on more reliable infrastructure. Instead of paying up front monthly you only pay for what you used. Normally usage is calculated on an hourly basis and you are billed for the previous months usage. This is good for customers with workloads that scale up and down and you only pay for what is needed at any given time.
- Utilizes a network of web servers rather than a single physical server
- Improved uptime and if another server will accommodate for this to allow for a seamless experience
- Scalable Resources – a network of servers for almost infinite resources
- Easily allocates resources as required
- Only pay for resources that you use
- Requires high level of technical knowledge to configure and setup Cloud Hosting
Reliable and Secure
Private Cloud
Private cloud is a specialty service that gives you all the benefits of the public cloud hosting but isolates all the cloud hardware to just one customer. Think about it as multiple bare metal servers configured to work together automatically.
- Utilizes a network of web servers rather than a single physical server
- Improved uptime and if another server will accommodate for this to allow for a seamless experience
- Scalable Resources – a network of servers for almost infinite resources
- Easily allocates resources as required
- You pick the hardware so that it fits your needs
- Requires high level of technical knowledge to configure and setup
- For the most advanced hosting providers and agencies
- Can be needed to meet certain compliance needs as you are the only customer in that environment
Need Technical Help
Managed Hosting
- Where hosting provider manages your hosting and server for you
- Takes on technical aspects of setting it up for you
- Can include: Updates, Backups, Maintenance, and WordPress Installation
- An add-on to any of the standard hosting types
- Plans can start at around $100 per month, varies based on hosting
- Not just for beginnings
- Offers convenience and peace of mind to any level of user
