Today, you will learn about the different types of web hosting to help you distinguish one from another and make it easier for you to choose the right choice for your needs:
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Free Web Hosting
Unfortunately, nothing is free these days and if you think that these services will give you free hosting, this is not the case at all. With free web hosting services, you will not technically create your own site and instead, you will just create one or several pages on another person’s website.
For instance, WordPress lets you create a blog or website for free on their platform. However, your site is just a sub-domain of their domain. It means that your URL is going to be www.yourwebsite.wordpress.com instead of www.yourwebsite.com. They let you drop the name WordPress but you need to pay to enjoy this privilege. It means that it is free provided that you are fine with ads all over the page and with WordPress included in your URL.
Virtual Private Server or VPS Hosting
VPS or Virtual Private Server hosting is a poplar webhosting option for those site owners who want to upgrade from the usual shared hosting since this is more balanced from every point of view, with cost included.
VPS servers still require you to share space with the rest of the users on just one physical server. However, its difference from traditional shared hosting lies on how it is achieved.
First off, with VPS servers, it is very rare to have over 20 years. Of course, the benefit is that the machine will experience less stress from the start. But, the true benefit with VPS hosting comes in the form of hypervisor or virtual machine monitor.