What is the types of web hosting.?

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Virtual Private Server (VPS)
Virtual Private Servers
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Virtual private servers share one physical server but acts like multiple, separate servers. A VPS is a stepping stone between shared hosting and getting your own dedicated machine. Even though each VPS instance shares hardware resources, they are allocated a dedicated slice of the computing resources.

A VPS avoids the problem of having your hosting neighbors bring down your website, while avoiding the cost of a dedicated server.

Price Range: Most VPS hosting packages cost between $50 and $200. Pricing is based on the guaranteed CPU and memory (RAM) you get.

See Also: Namecheap Web Hosting Review

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Dedicated Web Server
Dedicated Web Server
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When you have a dedicated server, it means you are renting one physical server from a hosting company. You can have full control (called "root" permissions in Linux) if you want it.

With a dedicated server, you don't have to worry about other websites on a shared server taking up your resources and slowing your website down.

A dedicated server is generally the highest level of server you would need if your online business grows into a presence that is getting a lot of website traffic. While the costs of a dedicated server is significantly higher than shared hosting, your business will be at a point that can easily afford the necessary costs of having your own server.

Pricing: Dedicated servers are priced from $100 and up. But if you are considering a dedicated server, you should also consider the costs of hiring a system administrator to take care of the technical details.

See Also: GoDaddy Web Hosting Review

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Colocation Web Hosting
Colocation Web Hosting
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When you colocate, you rent rack space from a data center. You bring in your own server hardware and they provide power, cooling, physical security, and an internet uplink. This means you're responsible for your own server software, data storage, backup procedures, etc. If hardware fails, you're responsible for replacing it and getting the server back up and running.

Unless you have the technical know-how in-house, colocation is probably not worth the investment in time, expertise, and money for most small businesses.

See Also: The Benefits of WordPress Optimized Web Hosting

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Self Service Web Hosting
Self Service Web Hosting
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The ultimate hosting plan -- you do it all yourself! You buy the servers, install and configure the software, make sure there is sufficient cooling and power in your machine room, and double up everything for redundancy. Some of the things you'll have to take care of:

data center space
cooling
power (with backup)
bandwidth
server hardware
systems administrator
data integrity and backup
... and the list goes on

Similar to colocation web hosting, this most likely beyond the scope of what you'd want to do as an online business owner.

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Managed WordPress Hosting
managed WordPress hosting
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With the increasing popularity of WordPress as a web building platform, many web hosting servers are offering what's referred to as "Managed WordPress Hosting.

In a nutshell, managed WordPress hosting is a service where the web hosting provider will keep your WordPress installation up-to-date which can help protect your site from security threats that would allow hackers into your website.

While not the as inexpensive as shared web hosting, this is a great option for both start up businesses and established businesses that use the WordPress platform.

See Also: Why You Must Host Your Own WordPress Blog

Edited by Online Business/Hosting Expert Brian T. Edmondson

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The ultimate hosting plan -- you do it all yourself! You buy the servers, install and configure the software, make sure there is sufficient cooling and power in your machine room, and double up everything for redundancy. Some of the things you'll have to take care of:

• data center space
• cooling
• power (with backup)
• bandwidth
• server hardware
• systems administrator
• data integrity and backup
• ... and the list goes on

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All sites and blogs on the Internet start with hosting.
Hosting is one of those beasts with so many variables that everyone gets lost, even developers with plenty of prior knowledge. In this article I’ll clear up the differences between the most common hosting types: shared, VPS, dedicated and cloud, let’s get started.

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What is Web Hosting in general?

First, let’s clear up what hosting is in the first place. When you view a website in a browser, you are actually receiving code written in a bunch of different coding languages.

Your browser converts this code into something we can actually understand: images, buttons, text columns, and so on.

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The code for a website is held in a bunch of different files. Everyone’s used files before, they can be created, modified and deleted. Files also need a place to live.
On your computer this is a hard drive. Your computer also has a processor that deals with the basic file operations like editing, copying, deleting and so on.

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This is exactly what a server is. It is essentially a computer that holds a bunch of files and is capable of performing operations on them. It has a CPU, it has memory, it has a hard drive, and other components. It even has an operating system, usually a Linux-based one.

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So where does hosting come in, what’s the difference between a host and a server? Your host is the company that owns the server your content is on (this is a white lie, more on it later). In addition to giving you the hardware for your website a host usually offers a bunch of other services like server management, support, malware scanning, backups and so on.

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There’s different types of web hosting

What caused me some confusion when I started out was differentiating between “host (wikipedia definition)” and “hosting package”, they are used somewhat interchangably. Most hosts offer multiple packages which may be wildly different. For example: GoDaddy offers all four hosting types mentioned in our title.

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The easiest way to get started is to figure out which type of hosting you need, and then look at all the different companies and what they offer for your hosting needs.
There are three basic ways to differentiate between hosting packages. One way is to look at the technology used for the server.

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This is what gives us our four categories: Shared, VPS, Dedicated and Cloud.
The second way is to look at the level of management offered. I mentioned earlier that a server is exactly the same as your computer at home. It not only runs an OS, but software packages as well. Just as any other computer, it needs to be updated and maintained. Most hosts offer server management, but you can buy servers where you need to do all of this work. A managed server means less work for you but also less flexibility, an unmanaged server means more work but more flexibility. There are packages that offer some management services so unmanaged/managed is only the two extremes, there is a spectrum of services in between.

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The third way is to look at the additional services on offer. Some additional services would be: backups, level of support, malware scanning and cleaning, SSL certificates, free CDN bandwidth, platform specific services (e.g: WordPress), staging site creation, etc.