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What is hosting ?For non-IT savvy, it might be a little tough for them to comprehend the meaning of web hosting. If you earch it on any search engine, of course there will be answer and explanation for it. But, how far do you really understand? Honestly, when I first get a hosting for myself, I had problem too. Then, through some forum and internet I found some explanations.
Generally, hosting is a place to host your website/content in a datacenter ( local/oversea ) which had much more faster speed than your broadband internet.
In the market today, there are shared hosting, dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, and colocation hosting. All mentioned are hosting, but difference function.
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting means that a web server has its resources shared by many other websites. In share hosting, you shared a ip address from a same server with others people. The number of account in the server is not fixed, it can be as much as the server can stand. Therefore, shared hosting is the cheapest hosting among others.
Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting refers to hosting in which you rent a server from your web hosting provider and will be placed at your web hosting provider’s datacentre. They will provide software installation and connection to Internet. This will indicates that the website owner has control over the server as they don’t share it with other websites. In short, dedicated hosting is where only 1 user hosted on the server machine and have a full privilege over the server to manage it by themself. However, the server machine or related hardwares will be still belongs to the web hosting provider.

Colocation Hosting
Well, this hosting has the same features as dedicated hosting. The difference is all the hardwares/server are belongs to you. You have to manually setup/troubleshooting your server/hardwares on your own. You just rent a place in the datacenter.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller Hosting is a hosting where the account owner has the priviledge to allocate the webspace and bandwidth access and resell them to his clients. This shows that reseller hosts act like a middleman and is usually not responsible for any software or hardware intallation. They only buy webspace and resell to clients.

VPS Hosting
VPS stands for Virtual Private Serve