The choice of accommodation is always a difficult question even when you have a little experience. The offers are difficult to compare a lot of technical jargon few testimonials not easy to be sure to make the right choice. Trio Tec Digital has prepared a complete guide dedicated to the subject. On the program clear explanations of the fundamentals to know above all, and a complete comparison of accommodation offers family by family.
And for those who want a quick recommendation, here are our favorite accommodation deals in each category. Obviously, I can only recommend that you read the explanations because each situation is specific.
The main families of hosting offers: shared vs VPS vs dedicated
Before looking in more detail at the hosting offers, it should be understood that there are different types of accommodation. We can distinguish four main ones: shared hosting, VPS, dedicated or Cloud.
The choice of the type of accommodation depends on your needs naturally. Some sites need more computing power, others more hard drive, and some must have considerable traffic peaks while others are very stable. However, as you can imagine, it is also a question of price. Shared hosting costs between 5 and 25 € / month, when you have to expect 50 to 200 € / month for dedicated hosting (and probably more time for outsourcing...). Let\'s take a closer look at the meaning of each type of accommodation, this should help you choose the right one for your project.
Shared cheap web hosting
It is clearly the most popular type of hosting when starting a website. The reason is simple, it is the most economical type of hosting, and most start-up websites just don\'t need more.
Shared hosting like Hosting a bit like a shared apartment, where everyone shares the kitchen, electricity, etc. Server resources, processor, hard drive, or RAM, are shared among multiple users. Naturally, data is compartmentalized from user to user, but resources are not, or very little. Concretely, this means that if a user experiences a peak in traffic and consumes more resources, on your side, you will have less. In 90% of cases, this is fine, the variations in resources are moderate, and the loading time on your site is correct, but there may be requirements / constraints which require a higher level of performance or control.
It should be remembered that the loading time of a web page depends on many factors, hosting performance isn\'t everything. We can have a light site, well optimized, which runs perfectly on shared hosting at 5 € / month. And conversely, some poorly optimized sites, filled with animations, with very heavy themes (who said Avada?) Will struggle on a dedicated one.
The shared hosting offers are intended for beginners. As a result, the offers generally include everything you need to get started: free domain, email accounts, automated backups, SSL certificate, and “1 click” installation of the CMS (WordPress, Prestashop, etc.). The host takes care of the maintenance of the servers (updates, monitoring, etc.), but you have very limited access (no SSH access, and when you know what that means, you don\'t want to \'pass it...).
VPS web based hosting
VPS hosting is the hidden child of shared and dedicated cheap web hosting. The principle is to create several virtual servers on a single server using virtualization technologies. Each user thus has his own “virtual” server, with his own resources (processor, memory, etc.). Only the hard drive is shared in this diagram, with a compartment for each user of course.
As a result, the level of administration / flexibility of a VPS hosting is close to that which we have with our own "physical" server. And at the same time, no maintenance is needed, or very little, because the host takes care of the maintenance of the physical server on which your virtual server runs. In theory, we really have the advantages of dedicated and shared hosting. And for having used a lot of VPS in real life, I confirm that this is rather true, even if we reach a performance ceiling quite quickly.
The most pessimistic will tell you that it is also the downside of both. At the maintenance level, even if an admin panel like Plesk or cPanel is often offered from the start (and greatly facilitates the job) you still have to take care of a lot of things yourself, backups are rarely offered by default in a VPS. Without forgetting that in terms of performance, even if you have your own virtual server, performance is not guaranteed.
Cloud based web hosting
Cloud hosting relies like VPS hosting on virtualization technologies to create virtual servers. In the case of VPS, we create several virtual servers from a physical server, while in the case of a Cloud offer, we will create the virtual servers from a network of physical servers.
The main objective is to provide flexibility in the allocation of resources. The physical server network has considerable power, if needed more, but really a lot more, resources can be dedicated to a virtual server with just a few clicks. The sizing capacity, the famous scalability, is almost infinite. Another advantage, no need for outsourcing, or hardly any. The web host takes care of the maintenance of the physical server network, and virtual servers require relatively little maintenance. Obviously, this comes at a price, and cloud hosting can be 2 to 3 times more expensive than dedicated hosting for equivalent computing power.
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