Sunday 26 August 2012

Choices of Hosting your PHP website

In learning, PHP/MySQL, the end game is presenting your website to viewers. So, You will need to shift your website from your computer to server of some very good hosting company. So what really is a web host ?

A web host is a company which provide space and constant availability of your website to website users. Obviously, for quality services, they can charge you monthly fee.

There are 3 kind of Hosting Options for your PHP website
  1. Shared Hosting
  2. VPS - Virtual Private Servers
  3. Fully Dedicated Hosting

Shared Hosting

A shared hosting is a situation when a hosting company hosts multiple websites (some times hundred(s) of websites) on a single very fast and reliable server. This way,  the cost decreases. Such options suits for those websites which need less resources and have few visitors. In shared hosting, resources are shared between all customers.
 I personally think these shared hosts are the best.
I have used the hosting of all these 3 hosting companies and find them really reliable for cost and customer support.
A shared hosting costs between 2.00 USD to 50,00 USD / Month

VPS Hosting

In this situation, a hosting company divides a server into few virtually-independent system and rent out each virtual system to customers. Usually, Each server is divided into (shared between) 4 to 10 parts. These virtual systems have a fixed amount of memory and space allocation which they can not exceed. And resources are not shared between different customers.

I have personal experience with few VPS providers espeially VPSLAND.com and VPSlatch.com and Lunarpages.com and i found them very reliable. If your website have quite a few visitors, try VPS hosting rather than Shared Hosting. A VPS is just like your own dedicated hosting, you can have your own PHP configuration file and you can restart your VPS if it gets overload.
VPS hosting cost between 10.00 USD to 300,00 USD / month in some cases.

Dedicated Hosting 

If you got a lot of users and you need full resource and reliability then you can rent a server for your websites. Your system will not be shared with any one. But it will cost much more than VPS and shared hosting. It can vary from 50.00 USD to 1,000 USD / month or even more for very high tech dedicated servers.
Some very good dedicated hosting companies include dedicatednow.com, hostgator.com, wiredtree.com

If you are looking for a hosting company, you can choose from these companies, i mention above. I still am using services provided by these companies and it's been a wonderful experience.


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