If you own a small brick-and-mortar and want to turn it into an online business or decide to establish your small digital market yourself, you need to design a website. For this purpose, you have to buy a host for your website.
You, as a beginner, are thinking “Oh!! What is hosting on a website? Is it necessary to buy a host for my website? How can I buy it? What are the different types of web hosting? What is the best host for my small online business? How much does it cost to host my website? Can I host my website for free?”
We, Chidma company, with 20 years of golden experience and working skills in the field of web designing and hosting, are here to answer your question. We will dive into some of the above questions in this article and we may refer some of them to the other articles. We are going to help you to select the best kind of website hosting for your online small business. So, join us in this article.
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What is Hosting On A Website and It is Important?
Your website needs a space for saving and storing its information and data on it. So, it must be a huge space on a special computer so-called server. In addition, your users may visit your website at different times of the day, even at night when you are asleep. So, the computer that hosts this space must always turn on. When someone searches for you in a browser, the browser searches your information on your host and after that, will show your website data to users.
So, it is necessary to buy a host for your website. But how you can buy a host for your website? There are various companies such as Chidma (www.Chidma.com) that produce hosting services. When you want to buy a host, our expert counsellor in the sale department of Chidma company ask you some questions such as:
• Which kind of software do you need for your business?
• Where is the location the most of your customers are?
• What do you imagine about the future of your online business? Do you think your business will grow quickly?
• How much space do you need?
• How many emails will you send in a day?
• …
You may think why they ask the above questions. Does the answer to these questions have a critical impact on my online business? Yes. You must know that there are different type of hosting and our counsellor in Chidma company want to help you to choose the best one for your small online business. For selecting an appropriate host for your website, you must have regard for two points:
• Select an appropriate type of host for your small online business.
• Sign a contract with a creditable hosting company.
In the following, we will show you different kinds of hosting, by clicking here. In addition, you can read our article about the hosting services of creditable web hosting companies. So, keep reading.
What Are The Different Types Of Web Hosting and Which One is Appropriate for A Small Online Business?
If you ask me, selecting a host for your website is one of the critical parts of web designing. Why? Your host has a critical impact on the User experience (UX) of your website and UX has a very important impact on your online business success. If you want to know about the UX factor, please click here to find a list of valuable articles and educational content.
There are 6 types of hosting. You can find them in the following table:
| Hosting | Properties | advantage | Disadvantage | Appropriate business | Price (Chidma company) |
| Shared | The server is divided into a lot of virtual parts and every part is specified for a specific website | very economic | · Immunity problems
· A common Source between different websites · Downloaded on browsers slowly |
Beginners and small online business
|
· $2.20 – $22.99 per month |
| VPS | The server is divided into parts by using virtual Software like VMware. Every part is like a separate server. | · Clients have more power and source than the shared server
· If a website needs and uses more RAM, it’s not harmful to other websites |
More expensive than shared hosting
|
Beginners and small online business with sufficient budget. | · $2 – $110 per month. |
| Dedicated | A particular server is specified into a special website | · A website can use all the sources of a server
· There aren’t any worries about the immunity, uploading speed and etc. |
Very expensive | the website with high traffic (more than 100000 viewers per month).
|
· $47 – $539.99 per month |
| Cloud | Several servers work together in a network | · A website is not limited to a specific server and different services can prepare its needs
· The website is always available and it will have high uptime. |
Making a backup and immunity is very difficult | Various online business can use it. | · $4.50 – $240 per month |
| WordPress | A kind of Linux host for hosting the websites that are designed by WordPress | · Specify more source to websites
· High immunity · A few websites on every server |
· More expensive than shared hosting | Businesses that are designed for WordPress websites and need specialized services | · $2.95 – $16.99 per month |
| Free | A free cost host service that presented by some company for promote themselves | · Easy work for beginners
· Free cost
|
· week support services
· Low immunity · Compulsory ads |
They are appropriate for beginners | · Free cost |
The above table gave you a brief overview of different types of web hosting. Now you can compare them and select the best of them based on the objective of your website and your budget. We suggest if you have a small online business with a limited budget, buy a shared hosting or a free one.
It will help you to save your money for other goals for example buying a better template. After that your small online business grows up, you can turn your hosting into another appropriate one.
However, the minimum price of the VPS, WordPress and cloud hosting is almost equal to the shared hosting. But when you select a type of host at the minimum price, you have to search for its condition. As you can see in the above table, there are various prices for each type of hosting for example the cost of cloud hosting is between $4.50 – $240 per month.
It is depended on the company that you sign a contract with it. If you are interested in this issue, click here to read our article about some tips that you must be considered before buying a host from a company.
Conclusion
In this article, we try to help you select an appropriate type of hosting for your small online business based on your premium objective, the needs of your website and your online business and your budget. For making a correct decision, you need to manage your condition. Don’t worry about it because our expert counsellor team in Chidma company are here to help you. You can find our various hosting by clicking here and after that contact our counsellor.