A Beginners Guide to Reseller Hosting

Reseller hosting simply means you are reselling your web hosts storage space and bandwidth for certain amount of profit. It is usually the first step that you would take if you have decided to get into hosting business and (more…)

Dedicated or Shared Web Hosting

There are 2 main categories of server based on the accounts it holds. The normal kind is a shared server which hosts many different accounts/sites belongs to different owners. All sites share the server’s resources and have various resource utilization limits set by the server admin so that no one site hogs more than its share of server. Also the owners have limited access to the server and do most of the operations via a 3rd party control panel or jailed shell access.

Dedicated server is exactly opposite of a shared server in the sense that the complete server resources are owned by a single owner. He can host as many sites he wants and set his own rules for their working. He has root access to the server and can basically do almost everything with it. Dedicated servers are offered by web hosting companies for small extra fees, which they charge for server maintenance and normal trouble shooting activities.

Dedicated servers are best if you are running critical, high database usage sites and if you have some basic server management skills.

What is Virtual or Shared Web hosting?

Virtual or Shared hosting is basically hosting on a server which also hosts other persons website. This you are sharing the server’s resources with other sites. All web sites on the server use the same software and operating system and therefore are (more…)

What is reseller web hosting?

Resellers are basically sort of middlemen who purchase large web hosting packages from an upper level web hosting company, and then resell those packages in smaller parts by creating their own packages as (more…)

What is Managed Hosting?

The concept of Managed hosting came up due to the fact that not everyone who has the skills to run a successful online business also has skills required to maintain and run his server. Running a server with almost zero downtime and (more…)