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Web hosting is one of the oldest online services out there and one of the hardest ones to get in too.

Every website you visit on the internet is hosted somewhere out there, is stored in some server.

It’s amazing to realize that the great all mighty internet is nothing but a connection between computers, yet very few people realize this by themselves.

Good deb hosting is a must for every successful website. A good hosting company will make your website run the fastest possible with the least amount of time required for response, will provide you with the best costumer support and also with the best software to install on the server such as drupal, wordpress and shopping carts.

The most used hosting plan is the shared plan. Many people fall in the trap of looking to all thos amazing numbers only to realize later that all those numbers are not real.

Some companies say you can have unlimited space, but they say in small letters in another page and in gray for you to read very bad that you can have “unlimited space” with more 1 Gb per month. The same goes to bandwidth. As for email you can have unlimited emails, as long as you pay for each one. Same goes for databases.

Shared hosting means that many websites will be stored inside the same computer and the resources will be shared. Usually each website gets at best 10% of the resources, which means that your website will be more than ten times faster in a dedicated server.

They will also make bandwidth slow enough so you will never be able to send unlimited amount of files to the server.

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Be sure to read carefully all the independent reviews from many websites and never trust a site with referral links making a good review, they are making money from it probably in a not legitimate way, they might trick you into buying more expensive hosting.

For websites with millions of visitors per month you have no choice but to get either VPS or dedicated. Start with the cheapest dedicated plan then upgrade at the same time your need for resources start to increase.

Dedicated server is the ultimate web hosting solution. If after that your website is still not fast enough, you will have to go for extreme solutions such as an array of servers.