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So you’ve decided to get a website. So far so good. But when you get to your chosen provider’s webpage, you’re hit with a flood of terms and plans and prices that you don’t fully grasp. Shared? VPS? Dedicated? What the heck does it all mean? More important, which one should you choose?<\/p>\n

Picking a web hosting plan can be overwhelming for first-time users. Most web hosting providers<\/a> offer a gamut of hosting types and plans, which is a good thing for experienced hands looking for the flexibility and freedom that having tons of choices can provide. But this often leaves newbies paralyzed by indecision or just plain old unfamiliarity.<\/p>\n

That’s why we’ve come up with this guide. Here, we’ll run down the basic types of web hosting, giving you a quick description, the major pros and cons, and what types of websites or users each kind of hosting works best for. We’ll also give you a short primer on what cloud hosting is, since more and more providers are offering cloud hosting plans to their customers.<\/p>\n

If you’re not quite sure how web hosting works, we recommend starting here first<\/a>. But if you’ve already got the core concepts down, then strap in – we’re about to kick things up a notch.<\/p>\n

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Shared Hosting<\/h2>\n

When you “host” a website, you’re storing all the files that make up that website on a special computer called a server. Shared hosting<\/a> is exactly what it says on the tin: the server that holds your website also carries other websites owned by different users – sometimes more than 1,000 per server!<\/p>\n

Remember Web Hosting 101? If owning a website is like having a home on the internet, then shared hosting means you\u2019re living in an apartment complex. Your living space (aka websites) are still separate from other users, and you still have full, exclusive control over your content. Heck, most of the time neighbors don’t even know whom they’re sharing a server with!<\/p>\n

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However, all of your sites draw from a common pool of resources — the server’s memory, storage space, and so on. Imagine what happens when a website on your server suddenly gets very busy, or gets hit with pernicious malware. With the bulk of your server’s resources sucked up by one website’s demand, your own site might experience slowdowns — or even, in rare cases, go down entirely. This is akin to your neighbor throwing a massive party, complete with a hallway stuffed with visitors and a bone-rattling sound system: it’s not your apartment that’s getting swamped with (or trashed by) drunk party-goers, but man, do you still feel the ruckus.<\/p>\n

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