Nowadays, Internet has become the most efficient way, in terms of cost and energy, to reach millions of potential new customers related to your business field from all over the world. But what you absolutely need to get your business going on the Internet is a website. But furthermore, you'll also need a web hosting company. And this is where it gets tricky. You have to know, between the thousands of plans that exists, the one that fits your needs. There is basically three main types of web hosting: Free web hosting, Shared web hosting and VPS hosting. Other solutions exist for more specific needs, but they're not going to be explained in this article. Do you know what type fits you best?

1. Free hosting.

Free web hosting is not a suitable option for an established companies, but only for new webmasters or personal businesses. Free web hosting companies usually also include the option to upgrade to a paid hosting when your needs starts to get bigger. The point here is that this kind of hosting usually allows only a small web space, a limited bandwidth and limited features. Also, many free web hosting companies place ads on your websites and this is how they make their money. Also, the support services included with free hosting accounts do exist, but are limited and not available 24/7. In addition, they usually don't guarantee 100 uptime, 24/7 phone support, control panel, many Go of web space and nearly unlimited web space for a low cost. With this type of hosting, you will be placed on a server with multiple other accounts. Sometime, web hosting companies over crowd their servers to save money and this results in poor speed and more downtimes. This type of hosting is the most un-normalized hosting that exists and this is why you need to be really careful before signing up with a certain host. For example, some hosts will ask for nearly 10$/month for as low as 1Go of web space while others will provide Unlimited space, bandwidth, databases, emails, FTP, etc for less than 5$/month.

At first look unlimited looks unbeatable, but it is only a marketing technique. Since unlimited is impossible in our world, the "unlimited" they provide contains a * which refers to terms and agreements that states you won't truly have unlimited space and you could be banned for server load exceeded without further notice. Most hosting companies providing unlimited space aren't focusing on the good thing. And normally, 30 Go and more will be more than enough for what you need since if you need more web space, shared web hosting won't provide enough speed for what you need. Also, many shared hosting offer Web Site builder to design your website in few clicks.

The important is to look up for what is really important for you since almost every shared hosting is really cheap: do they provide good support (24/7 by phone and email)? Do they guarantee 99.9% uptime? Do they have a 30 money-back policy? Do they have crowded servers ? Do they provide web site builder? Do they offer a good control panel? What scripts. Email, databases, ftp, ssh do they provide? Etc.

Conclusion: Look closely before choosing your web hosting company for shared hosting and don't go for the UNLIMITED one. Choose what fits the best your needs. Unlimited doesn't mean good speed, good uptime and good service.

3. VPS hosting

This this of web hosting is good for big website need. VPS stands for: Virtual private server. Back in the days, having your own server (in contrary to shared hosting; many websites on one server) was very costly. With the new virtualization systems, many web hosting companies now offer low cost virtual private server for your website. This will provide you more control (full root access), more speed (dedicated and guaranteed speed) and usually more service and support. This suits best for big web site needs and experienced webmasters since you need to make some administration such as choosing your OS, managing your website, etc.

Conclusion: VPS now stands as a low cost replacement for dedicated hosting. This is perfect for big web sites with a high traffic flow and lots of content.

Conclusion

I would recommend using Shared hosting since it has a really low cost nowadays. But you have to look carefully for the right web host and not just look for the one shouting out he provides unlimited space.

If you're an experienced webmaster, VPS is now a suitable solution for a nice working website at a relatively low cost.

Look for what fits your needs the best: space? Uptime? Support? Databases? Scripts? Etc

My personal choice:

It is sometime difficult to choose the right web hosting company since there is so many out there.

I'd recommend using UBservers.com. They offer risk free web hosting for unlimited time with no ads, Shared web hosting with incredible support and uptime in addition with tons of features starting as low as 7.99$/month , and VPS hosting starting at 17$/month. Just give them a try risk free and upgrade if you like it, but I'd bet you won't be disappointed.

Here is the link to their web site: http://ubservers.com

Good luck