Web hosting providers – Analyse performance and price

Choosing the best web hosting provider for your website is not an easy task. In this section we look at the performance, stability and the price point of web hosting providers and how to make an informed decision. Performance Based Considerations Latency and Bandwidth: Two Key Concepts To Understand Before we start with our performance based considerations we need to explain two key concepts related to website performance: latency and bandwidth.   Latency is the amount of time it takes for a request from …

Different types of web hosting

Types Of Web Hosting

To run a website, you’ll need to install the necessary web server software on a server machine. Web hosts generally offer different types of web hosting. We’ll explain the pro’s/contra’s of each. Shared Web Hosting Shared hosting is the cheapest kind of hosting. Shared hosting means that the webhost has setup a (physical) server and let it host a lot of different sites from different customers on that server. (into the hundreds) The cost of the server is thus spread to all customers …