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Deciding between a shared and dedicated host is an important
decision, effecting both your wallet and the quality of hosting
you will receive.
Shared hosting is the most common and certainly the least
expensive way to host your site, and is the primary focus
of this web hosting directory. Web hosts in this category
usually provide anywhere from 20megs of web space to 200megs
and range in price from free to about $30 a month. Since 20
megs is equal to about 1000 pages of text, that is usually
adequate for small sites.
Shared Free Hosting usually includes a free subdomain
(yourname.150m.com) but often includes advertisements on one
or more of your homepages, which pays for the free service.
However they do provide a paid upgrade option which eliminates
the ad banners and provides additonal web space, bandwidth,
and support.
Dedicated Hosting costs several hundred dollars a month and
is feasible only for businesses with very large and active
web sites. Dedicated hosts give each user their own server
to use the web space and bandwidth as they please. |
