Personal website hosting

By Staff

The difference between regular web hosts and sub-domain hosts is that the more complex the hosting, the more services they provide. Regular hosts provide highly individualized functionality that guarantees a sound level of quality service. These services are fee-based, ensuring that revenues generated can be allotted for maintenance, service improvement and for providing superior technical support. Hence, the high fees charged. However, low cost regular hosting can be found with regular web hosts. The most basic entry-level fee-based service can be found in "virtual" or "shared" hosting. Shared servers offer clients the ability to host their website on a powerful, professionally managed server, at a low monthly cost. They provide individual websites with redundant connectivity, guaranteed uptime and limitless technical support.

These service providers offer an excellent option for entry-level hosting needs because they are designed to host small-scale e-commerce sites and static web pages. Although, they may not be a good choice to host personal websites because the variety and complexity of services provided is not really needed for the purpose of posting your resume, or sharing pictures with family members. These types of sites are mainly popular amongst first-time website owners who are looking for a reliable web presence without having to possess advanced technical skills. Mainly those who are starting an Internet business would be interested in them. One attractive feature that lures would be business startups id that they allow them have their website hosted on their domain name such as http://www.their businessname.com.

You will find that services vary widely in price and can cost anywhere and users can expect the quality of service to fluctuate based upon the amount paid for the service. Remember that you really do get what you pay for. There is no exception to the rule. Like anything else in life, “buyer beware” becomes the rule and not the exception when purchasing shared hosting services.  If you buy a relatively inexpensive package, then you can expect the quality to reflect the cost of the service. You will not get all the “bells and whistles” that you would get from a regular web host service. Low priced or even free packages for that matter lend themselves to a variety of problems such as more network outages and other unexpected service problems. This may be acceptable to the individual who is looking for simplicity for their non-essential personal site, but it certainly won’t do for a someone trying to conduct a legitimate business on the web.