1Centrally hosted websites by 3rd party such Blogger, WordPress.com or many other free website solutions for beginners or occasional bloggers

Advantage: You do not have to deal with hosting at all

Disadvantage: Your data is not controlled by you and you have little customization options

2Shared Hosting: Most popular option and suitable for almost anyones needsMany websites share the same server and compete for its resources.Advantage: Affordable solution for classic lower traffic websitesDisadvantage: Performance can be slow at times depending on the resources used by other websites sharing the server. Not suitable for websites with huge amounts of traffic

3Virtual private server: Less popular solutionYour projects have server resources assigned to them that are always available so there is no competition for processing power.

Advantage: High performance for high traffic websites

Disadvantage: This option is by far more costly than basic shared hosting and is mostly used for larger online projects

4Dedicated server: professional solutionThis is as good as it gets in terms of hosting. You host your project on a separate piece of hardware and you have access to all of the processing power of the server.

Advantage: very high performance and absolute autonomy for high traffic online projects

Disadvantage: server management skills are required and dedicated hosting is very expensive

HOSTINGCentrally Hosting, Shared Hosting,

Virtual Private Server, Dedicated Server