How To Choose The Best Web Hosting For Your Needs - 8 Types Of Hosting Explain
there are so many different types of web
hosting accounts to choose from and it
could get a little confusing and a
little overwhelming to keep tabs and to
understand the different types of
hosting so that you could choose the
right hosting for your situation and for
your needs and that's the purpose of
this Post is for it to help you be able
to choose the right web hosting for you
hi my name is Adam from WP crafter comer
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okay so we're gonna jump into this video
it's gonna be more presentation style
like this so let's just go ahead and get
started first I want you to know what to
expect in this video number one this
video is gonna help you choose the right
hosting for you whether you just want
one website multiple website ecommerce
website online learning course website
you're a web developer and you're
hosting websites for clients that's what
this video is for to help you choose the
best web hosting package for you and for
your needs
now it's also going to be very helpful
to identify what other types of hosting
are out there and what you should be
looking for when deciding what host is
for you so you can know when it's time
to change web hosting providers because
we all start someplace but then we might
need to make changes as time goes on and
so I'm gonna help you identify those now
you might be surprised but this video is
not gonna be me making recommendations
saying go to this host and get service
there or this host that's not what this
videos for this video is for explaining
the different types of hosting that are
out there so that you know what type of
service to pursue for your needs okay
and but if you are interested in
recommendations my website that I have
all those at is order new hosting
dot-com
I have a lot of information there on the
different types of hosting that we're
going to talk about in this video
different top tier companies that
provide services reviews for those
companies I've got it all right there
and I've got something
that I've recently added there and
uptime monitor page so most of these
hosts I have a website on I'm doing
real-time monitoring to see the uptime
every minute and to test the load time
and I'm making this I'm paying for this
and I'm making this available to whoever
visits order new hosting comm they'll be
able to view this page or you could just
go to my website WP crafter and click on
hosting both take you to the same exact
place now surprisingly I don't think you
should put all the weight in your
decision based upon that uptime monitor
page it is nice I've got it right here
this is what it looks like and you can
see the name of the company you can see
their uptime over the past seven days
but you shouldn't put all of your
decision in what you see there because
this is really just showing you the
uptime for the one server that has my
one website on that one service so a lot
of these companies have thousands of
servers that they're managing all this
is going to show you is the uptime of
one and it could be something related to
a wordpress update or something along
those lines that cause a little bit of
downtime it is actually very normal
obviously we all want 100% uptime that's
the goal and the hosts want to provide
that I'm just saying that one person's
experience might not mirror someone
else's and there's other things to
consider and look for when choosing a
web host but I did want to make this
uptime monitor available for you and for
the people that visit my web site so we
have a big problem when it comes to
hosting and it usually boils down to
expectations right so we all want the
Ferrari right we want the nice fast
beautiful car or maybe if you're not a
Ferrari person like me you might like a
convertible luxurious Bentley and that's
kind of what we all want that's what
we're expecting but we don't all have
the budget for that we might just have
the budget for a Toyota now there's
nothing wrong with Toyota's I've been
driving Toyota's of for years but the
experience
I get with the Toyota versus the
experience in a Ferrari are obviously
going to be different the price tag is
different the handling is different the
interiors different every aspect of
these two experiences are going to be
different and that is a lot of how
hosting is we want the Ferrari but we
might only have the budget for the
Toyota and that's okay but you just want
to go in with the right expectations and
that's why you can see one hosting
package costs five dollars per month and
one hosting package cost $500 per month
there's this difference but there is
something that you get that's different
depending on what you pay just like
whether you're buying a Toyota or a
Ferrari I personally wouldn't want a
Ferrari I prefer a Bentley but who are
we kidding I'm probably never going to
drive a Bentley anyways so I broken down
to the four criteria that you should use
when deciding and evaluating various
hosts and I like to call this and I
coined this term I didn't get it from
anywhere else is the flores's of hosting
okay so the first s is speed so
depending on the plan that you choose
and the companies you want to be looking
for how fast is your website going to
load so that's the first one's speed the
next one is support are you gonna get
support not just my websites down can
you help me but support like I don't
know what happened to my WordPress
password I can't login can you maybe fix
that for me or I'm trying to update this
plug-in it's not working can you fix
this for me WordPress specific support
okay so the different supports you get
and I think support is actually one of
the most important experiences that you
want to evaluate when choosing a web
host as the support experience that
you're going to get the level of help
you're going to get and do they have a
wordpress expertise next is security are
the connote number one include a free
ssl certificate that's a must
nowadays there are some hosts that still
don't do this a lot of them have been
getting on the bandwagon but security
goes a lot further than
that another site of security is are
they taking proactive measures to
prevent and block brute-force attacks on
your website scanning for
vulnerabilities on your website things
like that that is what I'm talking about
when I'm referring to security also side
note with that not all web hosts and
this is a big pain point point for
people is if you have an outdated
plug-in on your website your website
gets a vulnerability gets hacked into
and now you've got all this junk on your
website is your website host gonna clear
that out for you and most web hosts
actually don't but there are certain
ones that you do pay more for that are
more than happy to clean your website
out for you and next comes specialty and
what this is is thus the web host
provide any specific features for
WordPress users and so specialty would
be a staging area and what that means is
instead of just updating your website
and then later finding out there's a
problem that you can login click a
button one button and it'll create this
separate instance of your website where
you can go and test different things
test different design things update
plugins and see if it causes any
problems this kind of staging area so
that's a perfect example of a specialty
another specialty is some form of
caching and that's a speed optimization
do they have some of these WordPress
specific specialties some of the hosts
will update your website for you they'll
do all of these different things so
that's one of the things you want to
evaluate when choosing a web host for
you so ok now we're gonna get to it
there are eight different categories of
hosting some of these are closely
related but you can easily break them
down into eight different categories
this is something else that I came up
with when looking at all of the
different types of hosting to organize
it this way and the way that makes the
most sense so you're gonna have your
first type of hosting which is basic
shared hosting this is the hosting that
a lot of us will start out with our
first website on I sure know that I did
with basic shared hosting there
isn't much by way of special features on
it for WordPress users most of them do
not have specific WordPress related
support so you're not going to them and
asking them to reset your WordPress
password and it's just your basic shared
hosting and this is the most affordable
type of hosting we all start here but
eventually we try to move on beyond here
next is two different types of managed
WordPress hosting okay so some of them
have something called cPanel and it's a
control panel that allows you to install
your websites it allows you to create
email account to access the file system
and do all kinds of stuff like that that
you may want to do to make it easier to
manage all of your different websites
that you have so there's a cPanel based
managed WordPress hosting you pay just a
little bit more for this type of hosting
but it tends to be a more stable and a
more smooth experience plus because it's
managed WordPress they're usually going
to have some way of updating your
plug-ins and themes for you and some
additional features like staging
environments and stuff like that so
that's going to be your cPanel now
there's the custom managed WordPress
hosting providers and what they've done
is for optimal performance they have
done away with this industry standard
cPanel and have said created their own
custom control panel now one of the
things when it's a managed WordPress
hosting that has their custom panel just
about every single time they do not
include email hosting so if you want to
also have your web host have your email
and I'll have a separate video on why
you would or would not want to do that
this category of managed WordPress
hosting providers that's just not an
option and it's simple you usually would
just use Google Apps or some kind of
third-party service for your email
hosting but those usually give you the
most phenomenal type of speed and
specialty out of all of the different
web hosts for word
press but they also have a different
billing method usually and they charge
you you choose a plan and you get a
certain amount of visits unique visitors
to your website in a month if you go
over that you might get bumped up to the
next package or you might get charged
some kind of a surcharge fee and so
that's going to be typical when you have
managed WordPress hosting with their
custom control panel like I said if you
visit order new hosting.com I have it
all kind of broken down there the
different companies that have these
different types of services so it all
makes sense now there's a new type of
hosting that I've seen and there's only
one or two hosting providers that have
this type of service right now and it's
called managed WooCommerce hosting it's
going to be a lot like managed WordPress
hosting but the environment has been
optimized for WooCommerce ecommerce
shops and they usually come included
with some services that are outside of
WordPress that make running an
e-commerce shop that much easier that
much smoother and that much more
efficient and strategic like I said this
is a newer type of hosting that you are
not seeing everywhere just yet it might
catch on who knows but it's something
that is going around right now next you
would have reseller hosting so what
reseller hosting typically is is it's
just like basic shared hosting but it
allows you to create these separate
containers of web hosting accounts that
you can use for individual clients so
obviously you can have any any type of
hosting plan that allows you to have
more than one web web website hosted on
it and you could put a client's website
on it but the only thing is is if you
have your personal website and your
clients website you're not going to want
to give your client an actual login
because now they can access your stuff
so that's what reseller hosting is for
so typically you find this with cPanel
based hosting and what it does is it
allows you to create unique individual
cPanel account so you can have all of
your clients websites and email
accounts separate from each other and it
allows you to create these cPanel
accounts you pay one fee and you get a
certain amount of resources and then you
would just allocate them to each one of
your clients this is great if you're a
web agency and you want to keep all your
clients separate but like I said you can
turn any web hosting account into a
reseller account really as long as your
client doesn't need to actually log into
the account in order to manage or
maintain anything not only that but they
won't ask you for the login that's going
to be uncomfortable if you do have them
on your hosting account and then they
ask for the login and you're like sorry
you're not getting this next is cloud
hosting and cloud hosting has been going
on for a while now cloud hosting is not
for the faint at heart it's literally
just imagine a Linux server everything
has to be done with the terminal command
line typing in commands and there's no
control panel there's no support there's
none of that available to you now in
this instance I'll mention a few names
of companies there's digital ocean
there's Linode there is vulture you're
literally just buying this dedicated
container of resources there's no
control panel or anything to manage it
and if you have a problem you are
completely 100% on your own it's not for
most people but if you would consider
yourself a Linux system administrator or
know enough to get by on the command
line terminal SSH and all of that guys
you know I can actually do that and I've
had my own cloud hosting before and I
could do it just fine but it gave me
anxiety because I knew I knew enough to
get my website going but I didn't know
enough to solve problems if those
problems came up so even me even though
I have the ability to have a cloud
hosting I chose not to now cloud hosting
is gonna get you the best performance at
the lowest the price it is insane what
you could do with cloud hosting but
thank goodness there's something called
managed cloud hosting
and there this is a new category as well
so essentially what they're doing is
they're taking those cloud hosting
servers and they you would instead order
it through the managed cloud hosting
provider and they will provide you a
control panel to make it really easy to
install WordPress and they're also going
to provide some some of them also
provide support so you can ask for help
if there's a problem with your server
problem with your website anything like
that you get the help but the only thing
is you're paying almost double twice the
cost of just going and getting that
cloud server yourself I will say that I
have used there's a really the big dog
is cloud ways they're the main company
that are pioneering this managed cloud
hosting type of hosting and I've used
them below before and they are fantastic
I have a full tutorial and review coming
out on cloud weighs the pros and cons of
cloud ways but that's not what this
video is about okay then you have VPS is
Virtual Private servers and this is
actually going to be very similar to
what you would get with the cloud
hosting except think of cloud hosting
but with a cPanel control panel that you
can have to make it easy to add email
accounts and have multiple websites and
all of that but you're getting some
dedicated resources and you're paying
more for it obviously and you can also
use a VPS most of the time if it comes
with something called WH M it allows you
to create those separate cPanel accounts
if you wanted to also use it for
reselling now most VPS services that
does come with support so you can go and
ask for help if you run into any trouble
and lastly we've already made it through
seven the last one it's just a dedicated
server so you go to the hosting company
and they have full dedicated servers so
the entire machine 100% of its resources
are for you now you can get these with
the operating system on it or it could
just be Linux you can terminal and SSH n
or they can have cPanel or whm on
and then you can use that just like you
would use the virtual private server
except you have more resources and those
resources are dedicated to you so this
is going to be your dedicated server so
most of us actually are going to end up
starting using basic shared hosting and
then move up to manage WordPress hosting
and then there's that decision of going
with the ones with cPanel or the ones
that have their custom control panel but
you have that kind of a metered
experience where you might have to pay
more depending on how many people
actually visited your website that
particular month and then you might move
up from there
on to manage cloud hosting and I have
managed cloud hosting right now because
I need tip top peak performance and I
like having the dedicated resources ok
so what is next so I just listed out
eight different categories of hosting so
what's next is I have a dedicated video
on each of these types of hosting coming
and I will link them in the video
description box down below so if you've
watched this video and you say hmm I'm
most interested in managed WordPress
hosting that has the highest performance
and that's going to be the one with out
cPanel and with a custom control panel
and so I have a dedicated video on that
where I'm gonna go over some of the
various companies and their pros and
cons of each of those companies to help
you choose one that is perfect for you
expect those eight videos linked in the
video description box down below and
then from those videos there will be an
individual review of the individual
hosting companies and kind of a video to
show you around the service to make it
that much easier to start using the
service and using it to its fullest a
lot of these web hosting services it's
hard to review from a longevity
standpoint but I can certainly use the
service and understand the control panel
do a review of that or review of the
sport support a review of the speed at
that moment a review of the spec
Elte at that moment and i can do all of
that so that's what those particular
videos are gonna be like I said if you
visit order new hosting.com I've got the
uptime monitor right there and I've got
links to these individual reviews right
there as well just to make it as easy as
possible for you to choose the right web
hosting service for you you don't have
to just make the choice that someone is
suggesting to you I really want you to
understand the different types of
hosting so you can choose the right one
that meets your needs today tomorrow or
might be the next type of leveling up
which is a good thing right so you know
when your website is doing good getting
good traffic you might want to level up
and get higher performance so that's it
for me in this video I want to know what
you think in the comment section down
below any specific questions you have
about web hosting I'm glad I stuck to my
rule of no recommendations in this video
I hope you can take it at that face
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