How does paid web hosting work?
Paid web hosting is available in three different ways. The most common, and cheapest, is shared or virtual hosting. This means that your web site is one of many that are all hosted on the same server. For the vast majority of sites this is more than sufficient for their needs, and a visitor will never know that your site is not held on its own server. If you expect your site to be very busy, or to use a lot of bandwidth, then you may need to consider a dedicated server. This means that your site will be hosted on its own server, and that all of those servers’ resources, such as CPU time and hard-drive space, will be used for your web site. However, a dedicated server is still owned by the hosting company – you are only renting it for a period of time. Finally, you may consider a co-located server. In this case you own the server, and are paying the hosting company for housing it and for connecting it to the Internet.
