Selecting a web hosting deal to support your site especially if you use it for business is crucial. Your site must be accessible 24hours a day and 7 days a week, each 365 days on a year. It’s hard to compete if your website is experiencing many downtime. The impact is not only to the visitor’s trustworthy about your business, but also search engine’s visibility of your website. They won’t include your site on the search result page if your site having downtime difficulties. As you already know that search engine bots are crawling pages regularly, since they couldn’t find or they receive unwanted response from your site, they won’t coming back. It will ruin your marketing/business goal on the internet.

Well, let’s talk about web hosting basic, it’s all depends to what kind of business is running via your site, it will be explained on another post, so here is the basic categories of web hosting:

1. Virtual (shared) hosting
What is Virtual (shared) hosting? It is a condition in which several web sites share one server. It is a low cost hosting because price is divided between several users. A standard virtual hosting at a rate of a range about $100 a year.

2. Dedicated server
Dedicated server hosting company lease the whole web server from a particular web hosting company. The site of web server is the web hosting company. You can opt dedicated server as a suitable option who does not wish to share a server with other web masters. For a site with many amount of visitors a dedicated server is the only rational choice. Due to higher cost, starting from $100 per month, those companies that know the worth of Internet business generally use it.

3. Collocation server
Some people say that Collocation server is quite identical to dedicated server, the fact that company doesn’t take the web server on lease. Their own web server is placed in the web hosting company. In addition to it, company has material access to their web server, which is not available while talking about a dedicated server.

4. Reseller hosting.
Reseller hosting it is aimed to those companies only wishes to begin their own web hosting business.

So what types of webhosting should you choose? again, it’s all depends on you. A little example, if you want to open an e-commerce site, then dedicated server is a must for you, but if you only want to put your content/personal content, then shared hosting is more than enough. There is one more thing that is hot in the forum: green hosting; does your webhosting using this technology? find them at the discussion on webhosting geek.