Which web hosting / server plan to choose

Confused which host is right for you ....shared hosting , Virtual private server hosting or dedicated hosting ? As a customer there are various opinions out there on the web with regard to which plan to choose . Sadly, the sales team of various these webhosts will go to all limits to see that you buy the most expensive plan . All the faux information available on the internet makes it even more difficult . Hence , here is well researched list of which plan to choose .

Shared Hosting :

The word out there is shared hosting is just for beginners or people who are getting started with creating small scale websites . This is not true at all . Shared hosting can even be used for high scale - high traffic website provided that you site isn't very dynamic and is well optimized (see here) . I recommend this plan to any one who runs a blog (wordpress included) or static webpages , with approximately 0-50,000 visitors a day. There are plenty of cheap shared hosting out there , but hands down Dreamhost is the best , Labnol.org one of the biggest tech blogs runs on dreamhost . And if you use the coupon code :  MAXDISCOUNTOFFER you get a great bargain.

Virtual Private Hosting:

This host is perfect for dynamic and resource heavy websites like dynamic blogs and application - service based sites . Sites which have a lot of images , an active forum , provide services like Url shrinkers , maintain a lot of databases etc. run on this plan . If you plan to make a website like Tinyurl or have a heavy script based website like a wordpress blog with many plugins then go for this plan . The best host out there for vps is probably mediatemple's Virtual dedicated servers . Take this plan if your traffic crosses more than 200 GB or is resource intensive and needs processing power .

Dedicated Hosting :

Dedicated hosting is only recommended to those who have popular , large scale dynamic websites and blogs . If you have a blog as popular as mashable , psdtuts or techcrunch then go in for this plan . If you have a dynamic websites and users complain about its responsiveness then its time you go dedicated . Generally site which have an alexa rank of less than 3,000 go in for this plan . This type of hosting is very expensive and costs a minimum of $150 for a good server . ThePlanet is probably the biggest and best dedicated host out there . Sites like Funnyjunk which receives a huge number of visitors a day are hosted with the planet .