Choosing hosting is more than just choosing the company that offers the best features for you. Hosting products can vary drastically based on the infastructure the company offers, and some companies offer more than one type of hosting setup.
At CatN we think we’ve found the perfect solution, balancing performance with security, but lets look at the other options so you can see why our solution is so good!
Free Hosting
Free hosting is normally used by web hosting companies to introduce their product to the market, so resources offered to the user are normally small, leading this type of hosting to only really be used by small sites with low traffic. In almost 100% of cases, free hosting services will use virtual server hosting, with tough restrictions on data transfer allowance and storage. Free hosting services will often halt all traffic to your site with no warning if you exceed these allowances.
Shared Hosting
Virtual Hosting
Virtual hosting is the most common form of hosting offered by providers. It is very cost effective as each customer has their own small section or partition on the server, meaning the cost of running one server could be spread across 100 websites. Multiple host names for the same web server are used so that each partition can be viewed as if it were an individual server.
Vhosting is popular due to the low cost endured by the company providing the service, however, Vhosting is not easily or cheaply scalable, and executing scripts in a php environment is insecure.
Clustered Hosting
A type of hosting that spreads the web site across numerous “nodes” or servers, spreading the computation load, traffic, and eliminating the risk of single points of failure. Clustered hosting is useful when bearing the load of traffic spikes as long as resources are available across the cluster. Clustered hosting is extremely easy to scale, by simply adding more nodes to a network the cluster resources grow, increasing performance.
Clustered infrastructures can be costly to implement and maintain due to the larger quantity of servers required, restraining the growth of clustered hosting products available. However, with clever network design these costs can be reduced, and new services are being released, especially by the larger hosting companies.
Dedicated Hosting
A single server in a datacentre that will pre-agreed specifications and will only host the one customers website. A dedicated server can have anything installed on it, and will offer greater performance than a standard shared hosting product. However dedicated servers are much more expensive than shared hosting, and are not easily scalable, as once greater is performance is needed by the customer, the only solution is upgrading to a more powerful server.
Our Solution
Our vCluster provides the perfect solution between performance and security with a private, horizontal partition on our web hosting cluster. It is easily scaled, and with load balancing across a two tiered approach (static and dynamic content delivery), we also provide excellent performance. We have developed a unique solution to the security issues when executing php scripts on shared hosting, by restricting blah blah (See: Securing mod_php without the Vesectomy). Combining our hostig product with super fast MySQL SSD’s, CatN vCluster provides the most powerful solution for all your hosting needs.
