What is Virtual, Reseller and Dedicated Hosting?

In the past I have graced upon the topic of, "What is Web Hosting?"and for some that was enough. Others though saw that the Web hostingworld is divided, broken into three parts. Virtual Web hosting,reseller Web hosting and dedicated Web hosting are all three differenttypes of the same thing. You guessed it, Web hosting.

Virtual Web Hosting

Think of virtual Web hosting as the little brother that everybodywants to cuddle. It is the one Web hosting account that is most indemand and most often sold by Web hosts. What is it? Well, it is asmall portion of space on a Web hosting server. The Web hosting serveris divided up into chunks, each chunk being a Web hosting virtualaccount. The way the word, "virtual" comes into play is that bydividing the server into smaller parts, each smaller part then acts asa server for a Web site.

Reseller Web Hosting

Reseller Web hosting shares some similarities with virtual Webhosting. Both are in reality a divided Web hosting server. This timearound though, the Web hosting server is divided up into bigger chunks.Here they are each given the power to create smaller "virtual" plansinside of their chunk, limited only by the space and bandwidth theyhave as a part of the Reseller account.

Dedicated Web Hosting

Dedicated is the big daddy, and probably what you think you are gettingwhen you purchase Web hosting server space. Most new folks to the Webhosting world think they are actually given a whole server to callhome. In reality they are only given an portion of the server.Dedicated Web hosting is to divide that server up into two to three bigchunks. Some Dedicated Web hosting accounts will also give you anentire server to yourself as well.

Which Web Hosting is Right For You?

It really all comes down to two things. What do you need the accountfor and how much are you willing to pay. The reseller and dedicated Webhosting plans offer you more space and bandwidth than a virtual Webhosting plan, but they will cost you more as well. For most folks avirtual Web hosting plan will do more than enough to cover theirbacksides. However, with time and expansion, one should not rule outthe advantages of reseller or dedicated Web hosting accounts.

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