Be it your booming online business or your client’s, web hosting needs can be complex depending on the content you have along with the growth of visitors/website traffic. It is a reminder to you that you need to beef up your web server.  The list here consolidates major hosting plans that you can consider for stepping up the game.

Shared Web Hosting

Shared hosting is what it is. The website is hosted on a server shared by other websites, which also means shared costs. However, there’s a risk involved - another popular site might affect the performance of your own site.

Sharing a super server at a very low price can be a great way to go for new businesses since the initial traffic would not be much.

Reseller Web Hosting

Reseller hosting is a shared hosting service with extra tools to help you resell hosting space. They have some incredible technical control and billing software for invoicing clients and all; such as, free website templates, technical support from the hosting company and private name servers.

If your business is to sell web hosting, then this is what you are looking for.

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

In virtual private servers, you share one physical server but it seems like multiple, separate servers. This is the beginning to getting your own dedicated server where each VPS shares hardware resources while being allocated with a dedicated part of the computing resources. Your hosting neighbors will not be interfering anymore, and it’s cheaper than a dedicated server.

WordPress Hosting

WordPress is popular, and it’s not going anywhere. As a web building platform, many web hosting servers are what is known as, “Managed WordPress Hosting”. It will keep your WordPress installation updated which in turn will protect your site from security threats from hackers. Not as inexpensive as shared web hosting, this is still a good option for both startups and giants.

Dedicated Web Server

When you have a dedicated server, it basically means you have one whole physical server to yourself from the hosting company. No need to worry about other websites and traffic management. If you are confident that your business has adequate growing traffic and revenue to afford the highest level of server available, then go for your own machine along with a dedicated system administrator to maintain technical aspects.  

Choosing a good host is one of the most important decisions you will make about your online business.  A poor host provides constant distractions, downtime, or content loss. With a good host, your website is available 99.9% of the time, loads rapidly, and has sufficient space and bandwidth.
Perhaps the most critical component of a good web hosting company is their support.  Test a prospective host, send them an e-mail question, or even call.  If you do not get a response in under 12 hours for e-mail, or cannot get through to a support person on the phone, look elsewhere.  You will have technical support issues sooner or later, and every minute you wait for help is a minute you are losing money.
Space and bandwidth are important in your web host decision process.  If you are doing a small e-commerce site, space is a minor issue unless you are hosting a large amount of video or pictures. A 10gp plan is a huge amount of hosting for a single website.  New websites with little traffic also require little bandwidth.  However, to make money, you will need some traffic, so make sure there is room to grow. Also, decide if you are hosting one domain or many.  Hosting solutions often offer packages to support a single domain, or a single domain with add on domains.  If you are likely to host additional websites, look for a plan that allows add on domains.
You need to consider what additional hosting requirements you need.  If you are running an e-commerce store, you will need PHP and MySQL as part of your hosting package.  Anything beyond a simple html pages require those tools, such as Wordpress or Joomla.  If you are interested in great web tools such as Wordpress, but lack any Unix experience, look for a program called Fantastico as part of the package.  Fantastico makes installation of CMS systems simple.
Finally consider price. Basic shared hosting is inexpensive.  At this point, you likely have no need of dedicated or shared servers, so stick with the inexpensive plans that meet your above requirements.