Web hosting service for different individuals

Web hosting service is a wide term that includes all the services that are required and necessary in the web hosting. We can categorize the customers into three big categories. Every customer has its own demand of services according to nature of the website.

Solo Operator
Solo operators normally have small websites. They may have their personal website containing their introduction, hobbies, some images, audio and video files etc. They may also have an informational website that contain information about any product, personality, disease, religion, logic or any other thing inside or out side the world. These type of web sites are also not very large and does not contain heavy material. Also the traffic rate on these web sites is also not very high.
So there is no need to pay extra by purchasing expensive web site hosting services for such kind of websites. They can purchase any kind of personal web hosting services or low cost web hosting services plans. Any plan costing $5 to $10 a month, and having standard features is sufficient for these of web sites.

Business Man
A business man normally requires more reliability, uptime, features, efficiency and support options than a solo operator. Therefore they prefer small business web hosting services. Small business hosting services providers also provide extra features like email hosting services, web design hosting services, domain name services, Linux web hosting services etc.
These services are more costly than personal or low cost web site hosting services. Cost of the business hosting plans ranges from $20 to several hundred dollars per month depending on your requirement.

Online Merchant
Third category is online merchant. Advertisement and selling goods online are two different things, therefore for selling goods online you need a transactional websites and some special kind of hosting plans. These hosting plans must include a shopping cart; an online catalog tool; security certificates; payment gateways for accepting credit cards; and ways to drive traffic to your shop, such as advertisements, e-mail newsletters, search engine placement, and so on. The cost of these hosting services is normally very high.

So before choosing any hosting service, check that in which category do you lie? So that your option of hosts can be minimize. If you are solo operator then you have no need to check the business or merchant hosts. Same is the case with others.