Alaska Website Hosting | Types of Services

After you have done some ground work on the mechanisms and needs of your website, it is important that you analyze different types of technologies and methods being used by web hosting companies. There are primarily four types of web hosting devices: virtual or shared server hosting, dedicated server hosting, co-locating hosting and reseller hosting. For virtual hosting, which also happens to be one of the most widely used hosting techniques by webmasters around the world, Hostgator and Lunarpages are two of the most revered web hosting solutions providers in the market today.

Shared web hosting refers to the process in which several websites share the server space for a common server. This is the most economical of all web hosting alternatives as the total cost of the server is shared amongst thousands of people in one time. Site hosted on shared servers, however, have some performance issues, due to the overload on the servers. Such services typically cost between $5 and $20 per month.

Dedicated server web hosting, on the contrary employs a full server, that is either leased out or owned by the webmaster, for hosting a single website. Such website hosting is particularly beneficial and important for bigger sites which need to be up and running all the time. For instance, a popular news site cannot afford to fail even under the most stringent of all failures- hence, dedicated servers are used for such systems. The cost of dedicated server hosting runs into hundreds of dollars on a monthly basis.

Dedicated server hosting is known as co-locating server hosting when the webmasters actually own the server and not just rent or lease it out from the actual owners of the server. Co-location hosting gives you more freedom and flexibility to maintain and manage the servers. For instance, if you are based somewhere in Alaska, an Alaska website hosting server, owned by you, should be easier for you to maintain than a server kept hundred of miles away in the data centers of the web hosting company you had decided to get it leased from.

Reseller hosting refers to the process in which the hosting company leases out the server space to different people (usually on a commission basis or at a discounted rate) and these people further rent the spaces owned by them respectively.