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Few years ago, options for web hosting were limited. There were only few web hosting companies to choose from and prices were higher than now. Now, there are thousands of hosting companies all over the world who provide quality and cheap web hosting. Most people start with shared web hosting plans which are the cheapest option available right now. In time, when traffic builds up and websites start getting good traffic, webmasters usually switch to cheap vps. Starting with shared hosting helps in keeping costs low in the beginning when your websites are not getting much traffic and when you don’t do e-commerce on your websites. It is also good for new webmasters who are just trying to run a website to test the waters. After having tested the waters and your website starts getting good traffic, it is only proper for you to get vps server for making website browsing a good experience for your visitors.

A VPS hosting has several advantages. It offers more flexibility and control on your virtual private server. You can reboot whenever you want, you can install operating system, you can install scripts, you can do all the maintenance yourself. VPS hosting gives you full control. There are few things you should keep in mind like where are the servers located. They should be in the country you are targeting for visitors and e-commerce. Uptime of VPS hosting provider should be very good and prices should be reasonable. Better ask in forums before buying VPS hosting.

Big website owners usually go for dedicated servers. There are many reasons to choose dedicated hosting. First of all an entire server is used to host one website. Your website doesn’t share space and bandwidth with other websites. Your website has all the disk space and bandwidth available to itself. That means it can handle any major traffic. Also because there is only one website on the server, there is no threat from other websites running some malicious code which is usually a major reason for downtime in shared web hosting environment. Also server is not overused so there is no problem with cpu usage and server running slow. You are in full control of your server and website.

Usually dedicated servers hosting comes in two ways – managed and unmanaged. As is clear from the naming itself, Managed dedicated server hosting means that the web hosting provider company manages your dedicated server. They install operating system, they install scripts, websites, anti-virus, software, firewall, make back-ups etc and other things to keep server and website secure. This obviously costs much more than unmanaged dedicated servers. In plans with unmanaged dedicated servers, they only do hardware maintenance and install operating system. The other things crucial for security and websites, you must do yourself.

To choose between managed and unmanaged dedicated server hosting, you should decide whether you’ll be able to manage your server own your own or not. Better to start with managed dedicated hosting and once you feel comfortable. switch to unmanaged dedicated hosting.

Hostgator is currently one of the most popular web hosting service provider in the world. They are quite new compared to other popular web hosting companies but have already become one of the most popular choices for web hosting requirements. They also have made available Hostgator Coupon Codes for huge discounts on different web hosting plans. Hostgator web hosting plans are quite affordable and they are well known for excellent customer service. They have unlimited shared web hosting plans, reseller hosting, virtual private server hosting and dedicated servers hosting plan.

There are three different plans in the category of unlimited shared web hosting plans. They are called hatchling plan, baby plan and business plan. All of them are unlimited web hosting plans with unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. But, hatchling plan allows only one domain to be hosted and other plans allow unlimited domains to be hosted. Also hatchling plan and baby plan have shared SSL certificate whereas business plan comes with private SSL, dedicated IP and free Toll free number.

Some features of hostgator shared linux web hosting which is also the most popular web hosting environment are 99.9% uptime guarantee, 45-day money back guarantee, free domain and website transfer service to hostgator if you are coming from another host, install several open-source scripts etc. Also hostgator provides green web hosting which means they invest money in keeping environment clean and green which offsets pollution produced by their servers. Hostgator is an award winning web hosting provider and you can’t go wrong with them.