Web Hosting plays an important role in your various online activities because it functions as a data storage medium.

Before choosing Web Hosting, you might want to look over several types of data storage online. These are some of them;

• SHARED HOSTING
  Web Hosting service user will share resources and capacity together in one hosting server.
   
• VPS (VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER
  Web Hosting services originating from one physical server and then divided into several virtual servers with smaller capacities. VPS users can customize the configuration according to their wishes and are not affected nor affecting other users.
   
• DEDICATED SERVER
  Web Hosting services that use one full server. Users have full access to server management such as; determining the operating system, server hardware specifications, and other settings that are usually limited to other types of hosting.
   
• COLOCATION SERVER
  Services that provide client-owned physical server storage at a Data Center that already has complete server storage infrastructure, bandwidth, technical support personnel, physical security etc.
   

You can find various detailed information on the above storage types at www.citrahost.com