In recent years, you can see that there are a lot of companies and individual operating businesses online. They would try to create some websites and do promotion for their business through the website. This has become something common and a lot of people have used this method to create their business indeed.

Now, let us have a look at the possible choices of web hosting service plans in the market nowadays.

The first type of the web hosting plan is the shared hosting. Most of the websites nowadays are using this kind of plan. These websites would not have a lot of files and pages because they are actually operating in a small scale. They would not need a lot of bandwidth and storage space. Therefore, they would not require full resources from a server. This means that people would try to share the server so that the overall cost would be lower.

A normal web server is designed to handle dozens and even hundreds of small websites at the same time. It is because a normal web server provided by those web hosting companies are not simple computers. Instead, they are large and bulky machine. Therefore, the shared web hosting plans are making use of this kind of concept to provide the websites for people who are interested in creating small business or personal websites. More than 95% of the websites on the internet are using this kind of plan.

The shared web hosting packages are usually designed in a way such that clients can have a certain proportion of the total resources of a web server. For example, they would share the total disk space and bandwidth. They would also share the total number of possible domain names under the server. Of course, web hosting companies would try to create different shared web hosting plans and you can choose the plan which suits you most. If you are starting a very small business website, the cheapest plan may already include sufficient amount of bandwidth and disk space.

Another form of web hosting is called dedicated web hosting. If you have big or powerful websites which would have thousands of visitors visiting every hours, this kind of web hosting plan would be important for you to remain the operation of your website.

Some of the companies would prefer to have this kind of web hosting plan. Under this plan, the company or the service buyer would use the web server as the whole. They would not share the server to other people. Instead, they can fully utilize the resources in the server to conduct their web hosting work.

This kind of renting of the entire server is sometimes because of security concern of the service buyer also. Some people prefer to have this kind of plan because they are afraid of data theft from other people. As people are sharing the server, problem occurring at part of the server may eventually lead to failure of the whole server. If one of the websites get virus, the virus may reach other parts of the server and other information stored in the server may be stolen. Therefore, some companies do not want to be dragged by other websites so they would prefer to establish their website using the server in which they would have full control.