Linux Hosting Exposed!

Shared hosting is the most economical way to get your website online, whether you just want a personal web page or you need to get your business on the Internet.  Shared hosting is the “carts/vendors” of the shopping mall.  It is server space used by many sites at once, while a dedicated server lets one site use its full resources. 

Shared hosting is the most popular and frequently used form of hosting, because the cost can be spread out and is therefore cheaper for individuals.  Shared hosting is an economical, flexible Web solution for both individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses looking to establish an online presence.  While it may sound like sharing resources with other clients could be a disadvantage, shared hosting is a popular, economical and resourceful solution for many clients.  What really matters with shared hosting is actually difficult to gauge.  One of the biggest drawbacks to shared hosting is that so many web hosts remove or limit many web serving features that clients may want or need.

For most people shared hosting is the pretty much the only feasible choice.  For most people shared hosting is the hosting and things will remain like this for a long while I think.  Unless your website is so big that it really needs the computing power and the space offered by an entire server, shared hosting is most likely to be right the solution for you too.  A downside to shared hosting is that if someone else on your server is doing something dumb like sending out spam, your server's IP address can get blacklisted, making your own site or email unusable until the address is cleared.  Another benefit of shared hosting is that the web owner does not need to know server administration as would be needed with a dedicated server, we handle all of that.  In reality, shared hosting is perfect for the great majority of websites and you should only begin to consider a dedicated server if your site needs very specialized software, your site is incredibly busy or security issues become a concern.

Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a Linux hosting solution for shared environments. It is ideal for web sites that have outgrown a shared hosting account, web developers looking to test software, or resellers thanks to the ability to host unlimited domains.

VPS Plans offer serious webmasters more hosting security, flexibility and reliability.  VPS is suitable for businesses and individuals who provide after-launch site maintenance and web hosting.  VPS delivers the power and control of a dedicated server at much lower hosting prices than a one-biz-one-sever plan.

VPS Hosting is about creating multiple "servers" within one physical server.  VPS hosting allows maximum configurability and costs less than a dedicated server, this is great if your website has special software requirements that a shared hosting company could not provide adequately.  VPS hosting provides nearly all of the benefits of dedicated hosting at a more affordable price.  Linux VPS hosting provides complete control and root access to your own virtual private server environment at a lower cost than conventional servers.  With VPS plans, clients have their own spam filter as well as their own mail server.  Many businesses prefer VPS to a traditional shared hosting environment because of the increased power and stability of the mail system.

A VPS is a single, dedicated server with hard drive partitions between businesses.  With VPS plans, each partitioned business maintains its own operating system, a guaranteed share of essential hardware resources such as disk space, CPU and RAM and an increased level of security for each of your websites.  And because you can host unlimited domains with a VPS plan, the cost is more efficient than any other hosting option.  Each VPS server within the main physical server can have its own dedicated resources, IP addresses, etc.  You can decided exactly which software you want to run within your VPS and you can have your own custom configurations and wont be affected by what anyone else is doing on the same server.  If you are not technically proficient you may find you have difficulty with VPS hosting, as VPS hosting requires you to configure and maintain your own VPS server.

Dedicated hosting is designed for businesses requiring more powerful solutions.  It is when one server is completely dedicated to a single owner's web site.

Dedicated hosting is more reliable than shared because your business is not sharing a server with others, it is the ultimate in web hosting solutions and is used for extremely high resource usage web sites or the more advanced web hosting firm's looking to sell shared web hosting or reseller web hosting solutions.

Dedicated hosting is typically used for sites that need to handle a high level of traffic, need a higher degree of security, or sites that run their own customized software.  It is the best way to host a website, however dedicated hosting doesn’t come cheaply. 

Linux operating system has been the choice for dedicated server hosting solutions because of the security and stability it provides. 

There are two kinds of dedicated hosting services: Managed and Unmanaged. 

Managed dedicated hosting is for customers who prefer to have their web hosting provider maintain and monitor their dedicated web servers, operating system and all supported applications.  Managed dedicated hosting is ideal for the following users: web designers, web developers, clients without prior server administration expertise, web designers and software developers who want to resell web hosting but leave the server management to only hosting.  Our definition of managed dedicated hosting is an "everything included" philosophy.  If you have a site which you want to have more items programmed into it, then managed dedicated hosting is the way to go. 

Managed dedicated hosting is for customers who prefer to have their web hosting provider maintain and monitor their dedicated web servers, operating system and all supported applications.  Managed dedicated Linux servers provide clients with the ideal environment to host mission critical web sites.

With Unmanaged dedicated hosting you control all the resources and applications and although it lowers the cost you need to take time for configuration and administration issues.