It’s extremely important to host your sites or servers at a reliable, secure and scalable Hosting provider who offers you a guaranteed and super fast reachability all over the world.

Each Hosting provider mostly offers several hosting plans with its advantages or limitations.

Remind that its important that the Hosting provider offers you 24/7 customer support service.

This is necessary in case of technical problems to put your servers or sitesback online as soon as possible.

SHARED VIRTUAL HOSTING
A Share/Virtual hosting plan means that your site will run on an Internet server where also other sites from other customer are hosted.

As a customer you will have partly or full control over your own site but have to share the server resources with others.

DEDICATED HOSTING
A Dedicated hosting plan means that you rent a server that is located and racked at the Hosting provider and you will have remote access to this server.

All the resources on this server are 100% reserved to host your own Internet sites.

When you select to have a Dedicated server you will get a range of IP addresses, data usage plan and you can select for a pre-installed OS (Linux or Win32).

CO-LOCATION HOSTING
Co-location hosting means that you will rent a server rack with Internet connectivity at the Hosting provider where you can rack your own servers and other network equipment.

This is the best Hosting solution if you grow with your online business activities.

Remember that when you select for Co-location Hosting plans you are responsible to secure and maintain your own server(s).

CLOUD AND PAAS SERVICES
The new trend at this moment is Cloud (CDN – Content Delivery Network) services which means that your data (websites) is distributed and stored over multiple server clusters worldwide.

When you decide to use Cloud services you can select from several data plans (consumption of bandwidth).

The most ideal way to deploy your online busines is to use Cloud services combined with PaAs (Platform as Application Service).

This means that you will no longer have to think about managing servers but rent resources (CPU/memory) on a farm of dedicated server clusters.

Examples of companies offering PaAs services are Heroku and Google App Engine.

Remind that this ideal if you develop your own sites and applications in for example Ruby On Rails, JAVA or Python.