The choices and sophistication of website hosting plans has been raised to new levels in recent years. The choices vary from hosting websites on your own equipment that is managed entirely by you, to webhosting on remotely based servers that are managed completely by outside sources. To determine what type of web hosting best fits your needs, you need to understand the strong points and weal points of each package.

Shared hosting (alternately called virtual hosting) means that you are sharing a server with other users at that web hosting provider.