Types of Website Hosting Packages

Ever since the Internet became a viable part of our society, having a personal or business website has become a necessary supplement to having a physical location, especially in the last five years.  For businesses, an effective website is particularly important. 

Website hosting packages are becoming the most popular way to operate a personal or business website.  Hosting your own website for your own computer is becoming extremely dangerous and risky due to the increase in hackers. 

The security that you have access to from your own personal computer and what hosting companies have are very different.  Therefore, hackers will likely target a website run out of your home office before one from a well known hosting company. 

• The most basic, and therefore most affordable website hosting package, is called “shared hosting.” This is typically the method that businesses that want to host a small, start-up site use.  The cost for a shared hosting package can be very inexpensive, in some cases as little as $1 per month. 

These packages are best for businesses that expect small traffic at first because if you are going to experience a high volume of visitors each day, a more expensive package is probably the one to go with. 

Shared hosting means that your particular website will be hosted from a computer that hosts a number of other websites.  Your website may slow down a bit if another website on that computer increases visitor traffic dramatically, but usually the slow down will be brief and can be avoided with specific modifications to your website.  

• Virtual private hosting (VPS) is the next most expensive option for web hosting.  This package will cost a little more than shared hosting but provides certain guarantees that shared hosting cannot. 

VPS involves hosting your website over several different computers.  Therefore, VPS can guarantee a consistent service quality.  However, there are different service tiers within VPS.  When prices increase in a VPS package, you can expect the service quality level to also increase. 

• Dedicated hosting is the final option for the popular website hosting packages.  This package hosts your website from your own personal server.  Dedicated hosting is traditionally used when a high volume of unique visitors are expected on a website and the features of the website require a lot of bandwidth. 

This is probably the best option for creating a website for a well established business because customers have most likely come to expect high quality services from this business.  Therefore, they would not want their website to be slow or not respond properly.