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In a recent article on the internet, more specific information about the types of web hosting currently available was detailed. There is an extensive array of web hosting options available to those people looking to put their web site online, but the article talks about the main web hosting options. Take a closer look at free and budget hosting options, virtual private server (VPS) hosting, dedicated hosting, and colocation hosting.

There are a multiplicity of other web hosting options available; some instances of other web hosting options available to you are reseller hosting, PHP hosting, and enterprise hosting. Many of the other types of web hosting are just a slight deviation of the web hosting options that I will focus on in this article. So although there may be a lot of different names for various types of web hosting options, they all boil down to the basic fundamental options.

Web hosting differs significantly in price. Web hosting can cost be free in some cases, but the web host will often place ads on your web page. Free web hosting is also very limited in terms of features, bandwidth, and server uptime. Free web hosting is a good choice for personal web pages with very little traffic. The most expensive type of hosting is colocation hosting where you actually own a server, or make payments on it, which can cost over $1,000 per month. So as you can see, the cost of web hosting varies greatly.

The one web hosting option that stood out in the HostingBat.com article was Virtual Private Server (VPS).The vast benefit of VPS web hosting over shared hosting is that your website is not affected by other websites on the same server. You have absolute administrative control over your part of the server. Basically, VPS hosting is like having your own dedicated server but on a smaller scale. The extra cost of using VPS web hosting over a typical shared host is well worth it for complicated and/or heavily trafficked websites.