Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting is a generic term that applies to several types of Web Hosting. It is not a definition of the type of Web Hosting on offer, as such, like the kind of person offering it.

A hosting reseller buys a larger Web Hosting account from a Web hosting company, and in turn sells some of their account to their own customers. They are essentially providing the services of a web hosting company, without having to set up and finance the expensive hardware and the maintenance of it themselves. This kind of web hosting is popular with web hosting companies, for example, start, companies with a broad portfolio of sites, and web design companies who want to offer their hosting customers.

Shared Accommodation

Shared Accommodation

This is the most common form of web hosting available. A company sets up one or more servers to be used for web hosting, and their customers in turn pay for a portion of that server and share it with other guests. Thus, a server may be responsible for several hundred sites at a time.

Shared hosting offers many advantages. It is the cheapest form of commercial accommodation, such as the cost of the server may be offset by the many customers who can use it at once. They do not require any technical knowledge to use and you only need to administer your account - at no time did you have anything to do with the server. As a paid solution, you will have access to customer support, contract, availability guarantees and so on.

Free Hosting

Free Hosting

Free Hosting is exactly that, and although the old adage "you get what you pay for" does not apply exactly - you've found something after all - free hosting is not recommended for anyone with any kind of serious aspirations for their site. Of course we offer Web Hosting so we would say that, right? Well, the two main things to consider when looking at Free Hosting are 1 - someone must pay for it, and 2 - what happens if something goes wrong.

Web Hosting?

Web Hosting?

Choosing the right Web Hosting package for you can be a daunting task. With so many packages, prices, terms, conditions, companies and countries vying for your business, it is important that you understand what you need, so you can choose a company that can give you that that you want.

So, here are some of the main types of web hosting available in the market - what they are, and what they are suitable for. And to make it a bit easier, we'll follow the career of Dave *, a budding web entrepreneur making his first forays into the world of web hosting.