There are three different categories of web hosting, divided around server issues: dedicated, shared or virtual, and reseller. With dedicated web hosting, your website is the only site on the server, and you have your own dedicated IP address. It offers website owners more control, but it also costs more than the other options.
Shared hosting is the most common type of web hosting. You have an account with a company to which you pay a yearly fee. In return, you get to use a pre-set amount of space and bandwidth, and you may benefit from some extras such as support for PHP. You are usually allowed to host only one domain at a time. It costs much less than dedicated web hosting, but you also have less control and fewer resources at your disposal.
With reseller web hosting, a web host buys a bulk plan from a larger company. The larger company owns and maintains the server in its data center. The reseller subdivides the bulk plan into smaller plans, and resells these pieces to individual users. The experience of the individual user may not be any different with a reseller web host than with a web host that owns its own servers. Indeed, it might even be better.
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