Corporate web portals, small business ecommerce sites, blogs and personal homepages all require very different web hosting solutions. Whilst someone who runs a casual, hobby or personal web site will probably find that a basic shared web hosting service is more than enough for them, a corporation would need a dedicated web server (or perhaps a cluster of servers) that is managed 24 hours a day 7 days a week by highly trained staff.

It is therefore very important that you consider what your needs are going to be when you set about choosing a web host. After you have decided what your requirements are, you will be able to choose the correct host type. The main types of hosting can be narrowed down into a number of categories; more details of which can be found by selecting a hosting type from the menu below.