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7 Classes of Web Hosting Service
I break web hosting down into 7 levels or classes of service. These are based on a variety of factors, including speed, reliability and the equipment and technology involved.
1. Sub-backbone (dialup, dsl, cable) These are the consumer hosting services. This is only suitable for very low-grade site provisioning, backup and test. 2. Freebie hosting (spammy ecommunities, 5 meg ISP hosting) This is hosting that tends to be ad-supported, or tossed in as a gimme on a separate service, such as a telco or ISP connection provider. The resources and capabilities are primitive, often not even including scripting or database capabilities. 3. Shared dirt-cheap services (low as $1 per month) Also known as way, way oversold. These can be reliable, but often or very spotty on performance, woefully inadequate or non-existent on customer service, and in many cases, painfully slow, due to the hundreds or even thousands of sites packed on one server, often all trundled on to the same IP address. 4. Mainstream conservative-domains-per-server These cost a bit more than the "consumer-grade" low-cost hosting. They are often much more carefully provisioned to avoid poor performance and regularly include quality professional helpdesk support. 5. Partial servers (like 1/4 ownership) and Virtual-partitioned shared resources or Virtual Private Servers (VPS) These are fast, robust, reliable, and cost more, but often earn their keep thanks to first-class support crews, higher-end hardware, and the ability to gain root/ssh acess to the hosting resource (handy for many applications and installations that simply can't function without root access. 6. Dedicated Server This is the very first level of hosting where there is 100% control over EVERYTHING going on on the box. Because you own it. No excuses if it's not performing, experiences a security leak, or otherwise stops working. It's on your head, so you better have your server management ducks all in a row. Along with the increased responsibility comes speed, flexibility, reliability, and control. 7. Load-balanced, fault-tolerant server arrays These use multiple servers, arranged in a group to achieve fail-over fault tolerance and the spreading out of loads during peak demand in order to maintain smooth and reliable operations. 8. Industrial-class servers (Blade, Beowolf clusters) These are just an expansion of the technology and capabilities inherent in the load-balanced servers. In many cases, this evolves into an entire server farm, and is reserved for Enterprise-class or Educational institution and government processing needs. |
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