Cloud Hosting provides for on-demand availability that comprises of group of servers with resources such as DISK, CPU, RAM, DATA, etc. that resides on a server on the internet that allows for the files of a website or app to be stored and accessed publicly on the Internet.

Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.

Shared web hosting service refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. This is generally the most economical option for hosting, as the overall cost of server maintenance is amortized over many customers. By choosing shared hosting, the website will share a physical server with one or different other websites.

With shared hosting, a server will store different other files and would be responsible for serving up the information about them.

WordPress (WP, WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. WordPress was originally created as a blog-publishing system but has evolved to support other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems (LMS) and online stores.

WordPress is used by more than 60 million websites, including 33.6% of the top 10 million websites as of 2020, WordPress is one of the most popular content management system solutions in use.

A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS. For many purposes they are functionally equivalent to a dedicated physical server, and being software-defined, are able to be much more easily created and configured. They are priced much lower than an equivalent physical server.

However, as they share the underlying physical hardware with other VPSes, performance may be lower, depending on the workload of any other executing virtual machines.

Dedicated Server is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone else. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating system, hardware, etc. In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment. Dedicated servers are hosted in data centers, often providing redundant power sources and HVAC systems. In contrast to colocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will provide support for operating systems or applications.

Using a dedicated hosting service offers the benefits of high performance, security, email stability, and control. Due to the relatively high price of dedicated hosting, it is mostly used by websites that receive a large volume of traffic.

Managed hosting provides a level of administrative and engineering support that the customer pays for – owing to both the increased size and complexity of the infrastructure deployment. The provider steps in to take over most of the management, including security, memory, storage and IT support. The service is primarily proactive in nature. Server administration is provided by the hosting company as an add-on service.

In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment.