Taxonomy of web hosting differs according to its base.
The two major type of web hosting based on servers are,
- Dedicated Server Hosting
- Shared Hosting
In easy way dedicated servers are the servers dedicated to only one customer and customised for all of the customer’s needs. You have to manage your server and the host providers maintain it.
why dedicated server? the main reason is for dedicated server is there is no need to share your resources to anybody else. this gives you full efficiency over bandwidth,performance and other major factors.
Shared Hosting is nothing but the hosting in which you are going to share the resources with others. it is cheaper than dedicated server hosting because you are sharing the resources.
The another major classification of hosting based on operating system are
- Linux
- Windows
Linux is widely used operating system for servers. where windows is less used when compared to linux.Linux is better than windows in handling viral attacks, crash, and also more efficient than windows. In many factors Linux is better than windows.
According to the website source code the operating system is chosed. for example if your website is coded in php then go for linux, for ASP.NET and other .NET VB scripts, go for windows hosting.
Note : php runs on windows and you can host .NET website in linux provided you installed some necessary softwares and engines, even both php and windows based scripts run on both operating system servers, the efficiency varies. so my recommendation don’t cross over it.
Solaris is also an operating system based on java and belongs to Sun Microsystem can also used as server, but i don’t have experience in it, if anybody know about solaris, let me know.
Written by Sakthi Tharan (tharansakthi)
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