Web Hosting is a service that allocates space and resources on a server specifically for the files that make up your website. It allows you to publish your website on the internet so your audience can access it and view it.

That’s a loaded description of Web Hosting. Let’s look at a wider view of it.

Just as you need a physical location if you want to construct a store, building, or house, you need a physical location for your website. All of the files (text, images, databases, videos, etc.) that your website is made up of take up space. While a domain name is essentially the address of your website, all of your website’s files need to be stored somewhere. Web Hosting gives you that storage place in the form of a server.

This is a very powerful computer that keeps those files and delivers them to your visitor’s web browser. Each server has an IP address that allows your visitors’ computers to find your website to view it.

There actually isn’t a difference between the two. Rather Shared Hosting is a type of Web Hosting service.

Shared Hosting is an affordable solution perfect if you have a small blog, a personal website with minimal traffic or if you are launching a new website. At Rubikon Hosting, our Shared Hosting is user-friendly making it ideal for both new and experienced users, regardless of resource needs.

If Shared Hosting doesn’t sound like it will fit your needs, Rubikon Hosting offers a wide range of other Web Hosting options including:

• Dedicated Server Hosting – This type of service is designed for websites with the most intensive resource needs. With Dedicated Hosting, only your files, websites, databases and email are hosted on the server. You don’t share the server with any other users.
• VPS Hosting – A virtual private server (VPS) falls between Shared and Dedicated Servers. With a VPS, you are hosted on a server shared with other users. However, through the use of virtualization, your account is partitioned off from those other users.
• Reseller Hosting – This service is perfect if you’re looking to start your own hosting company or are looking to host customer websites of your own. You can also sign up for Reseller Hosting if you’d like to have a separate cPanel control panel for each of