There are several types of domain hosting you can opt from in order to benefit from the services.

This type of domain hosting service is very common among the internet user. Here, your domain name would be registered on to a specific server. The server is thereafter shared in terms of various resources such as RAM, Bandwidth, Operating System, CPU time by other Clients of your own HSP or ISP.

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d) Server collocation

b) Virtual dedicated server or virtual private server

In short, all these resources would be readily available 24 x 7 for you to be used. The percentage of allocation of these resources is usually determined by your agreement as signed with your ISP or HSP. There are many benefits of using this service. It is cost effective.

Here are some of the basic types you can actually choose from:

This type of service comes somewhere in between the shared as well as dedicated web hosting service. The features provided would be similar to as the virtual or shared domain hosting service. However, these features and stipulated in a manner that a specific portion of all these resources are for you. You are the only authorized individual to use these resources.

The service is best suited for small as well as medium websites with average traffic. It is very important to check with your HSP or ISP, the actual terms and conditions of the service. This will let you understand the actual definition of the term 'average traffic'. This is because different HSP or ISP has different benchmark.

The service is provided free of cost. Nothing is charged. The service is suitable for small website with low traffic as an experiment or as a test platform. The main advantage of this type of hosting is free of cost.

This is because you would be able to enjoy access to all the resources provided to you. These are exclusively for you to be used. The server activities are more stable. The hosting service is more secure and consistent as it is fed by the similar amount of resources.

a) Shared or virtual

c) Free web hosting

The main benefit of this type of a server is that it provides you with enhanced flexibility and control in terms of the operation of the server as well as its resources.

There are several benefits of this type of service. First, it provides you an opportunity to enjoy lowest cost for registration of domain name. This is because your HSP or ISP tend to host numbers of clients on to a single server. This makes them minimize the server maintenance cost and the saving amount is passed on to you.

Network uptime is talking about the availability of the network, which including the network within the data center and the connection out to the Internet. Network is usually very stable, so a lot of web hosting service providers would like to give you a guarantee on it.

So, based on above definition, you can see that only a guarantee on network uptime will not good enough to put your web site in safe. But unfortunately, in the shared web hosting industry, almost all the uptime guarantee are referred to network uptime, and the industry standard for it is 99.9%. And for most of the dedicated web hosting providers, they will provide the guarantee number for both, but you will be charged much more for their very reliable service.

There are 2 types of uptime in web hosting industry. One is the Network Uptime, and the other one is Server Uptime.

And server uptime refers to the availability of your web hosting server from outside the data center. This will directly determine how possible your site will be accessed without any problem.

Uptime is a measure of the time a computer system has been "up" and running. In web hosting, it is used to refers to how often a site is available or responsive to web requests, and has been one of the key factors to evaluate the reliability of a web hosting solution.

It's usually very hard to maintain a high server uptime in a shared web hosting solution. But there are also some exceptions in the world. In order to find them out, you cannot just look at their uptime guarantee in the selling introduction page. The only way to get a feeling about it before purchasing is to refer to the reviews from their customer or professional web hosting reviewers.

There are also many sites who says they know the uptime of a web hosting company, the data there should be scammed. There is no way to know the overall data of a service provider as thousands of server are hosted in one data centers, how can they verify the data of each server (they might even not know which web site is hosted in which server). So, the data there should only be the data of one or two domains hosted in the vendors' data center. It can be used to as a reference, but you still need to go to some web hosting review sites to know more.

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