What are Shared, VPS and Dedicated hosting ?


Different types of hosting services are provided by the different hosting vendors (Hostgator, Godaddy, Bigrocks) that are shared, VPS and dedicated services, which fulfills your needs. Its all up to you what service is better for you. So lets have a look in brief what are Shared, VPS and Dedicated hostings ?
It will help you to choose right hosting service to you, so that you can get a right direction.

Shared Hosting

In shared hosting all server (where you site is hosting) resources are shared among all websites running on the same server. Where Server resources means CPU cycles, RAM slots and most important thing is bandwidth of the network, keep common among all the sites on the server which are chosen to get shared hosting services.
Shared hosting is a cheep service and you can choose a plan while hosting using this service. If you have a website with less traffic you can choose it. But if you have a massive traffic on your site then it would be better to you to choose among VPS or Dedicated hosting service.
All free web hosting sites provide shared hosting services to you.

VPS Hosting

VPS is a short for Virtual Private Server and is a hosting service that helps you to run your website with a reserved CPU cycle, RAM slot and bandwidth. In this hosting service you are still using shared hosting service the only difference is, you have a reserved portion of server's resources, and nobody is able to interrupt in your portion or to use your CPU cycle, RAM and bandwidth. This kind of service is better than Shared hosting service. But it is costlier than shared hosting service. Choose this hosting service if you have lots of traffic on your website.

Dedicated Hosting

In dedicated hosting you host your website on your own servers which are dedicated to take care of only your website. In this service all server's resource are available and has been dedicated to your business. Obviously this kind of service would be costly. Choose this service when you have a massive amount of traffic on your website.

So we have learned now, What are Shared, VPS and Dedicated hosting? and how it works. So only choose the best service and save your money. Please leave comments.

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