More About Web Hosting Differences - 3 of 3

Over the past two articles, I have done my best to try to go in further detail about the differences in the Web hosting world. We have gone into further discussion about both virtual Web hosting and reseller Web hosting and I hope you have been able to pick up a few nuggets of knowledge along the way. Now is the time to start talking about the big daddy of the Web hosting accounts, your buddy and mine, Mister dedicated Web hosting. Doing a Google search, you can find many Web hosting account and a reseller Web hosting account. You are given a Web host control panel manager and you can divide your dedicated Web hosting plan up how you want. You could dedicate the entire thing to one huge Web site. You could resell parts of it to friends and family. You can do just about anything you would need to do. Sounds like a Web hosting dream come true, right? Well it hits you eventually, and it hits you in the wallet. Dedicated Web hosting is very expensive, sometimes costing up to $200 or more per month. Not many individual users have that kind of money to spend, hence the reason why these types of accounts are usually left to big name companies. Besides money though, there are a few things to look out for. When purchasing a dedicated server, you might see that it is either fully managed, semi-managed or not managed. What does this mean? A managed server means that the Web hosting company will take control of keeping your server up and running. Semi-managed means they will only do some server work, and the rest is up to you. Not managed, well, that is when all the