There are different types of Website hosting. One among them is shared hosting. In this type the web-servers will have highly equipped high-end powerful computer. So as the name itself indicates the space on the same physical web server are shared among many web sites. If the number of websites exceeds that a single web server can afford, then the web server will only function slowly. In shared hosting the rate of web hosting will be much low since the physical web server is sharing the disk space, computer processing power, bandwidth and memory.

Another type of web hosting is dedicated hosting. Here specific customer will be allotted with a specific web server so that the same person may host any number of websites. He also has the right to make changes in the configuration of the software and can scale the bandwidth as required. As there are many facilities available in dedicated hosting the charge for dedicated hosting is very high.

Yet another type of web hosting is co-location hosting. In this type of web hosting the customer owns a particular web server and has the right to exercise control over their particular web server. There will be round the clock monitoring and maintenance service.