When you are looking to set up a website for your business, you will be faced with several hosting options. Before signing up for any type of hosting service, you need to work out your requirements and ensure you get the service your site needs, and at a fair price.

Broadly speaking, there are three types of web hosting you can sign up for: Shared, Dedicated, and Managed Dedicated service plans.

Shared Hosting

A shared hosting service (or ‘virtual hosting’ service) will host a large number of individual websites on a single server. Most websites are hosted this way, and prices are typically low as you will be sharing the services of the server with a number of other sites. Sometimes hundreds of websites are hosting on a single shared server. You can easily sign up to a shared service for under £100 per year.

Shared hosting would suit many small businesses – especially those that do not have, or do not want to get involved in the more technical aspects of running their own web server.

With a typical shared hosting account, you can be up and running in minutes. Once your domain name has been pointed towards your web hosting account, you can simply upload files and manage your email accounts with ease – typically via some type of user friendly “control panel”.

You should expect to receive customer and technical support for a shared hosting account, although the quality of this support can vary significantly between hosting providers.

Dedicated Hosting

A dedicated server would host a single or a small number of sites. The cost of signing up to such a service is understandably much higher than the shared service option – typically from £500 to several thousand pounds per year, depending on the specification of server you sign up for.

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