So your business is running well and you plan to move forward with it by taking your services online. Simply put, you are planning to set up an e commerce website and you wish to know how to get started. The most important aspect of setting up a website is that of availing the services of a web hosting service provider. You can choose you domain name, the web services you plan to provide and what not but it cannot be put over the internet without a server that stores its files.

Web hosting services provide you with web servers (can be referred as a hardware or a software application) that stores your website content in its premises. The entire web hosting package provides you with both a place for storing you content as well as internet connectivity in a data center. It uploads your website files via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or a web interface. Many hosts specialize in certain software or services to aid e-commerce websites and one has to choose judiciously among the various types of web hosting services such as the free hosting, shared hosting, reseller or virtual dedicated hosting, simply dedicated hosting and a host of others.

One of the most commonly availed forms of web hosting service is the dedicated web hosting. In dedicated web hosting the web host leases its server services with the option of OS and hardware. It can be partially leased or completely leased but it is better than shared hosting. In many a cases it even entails smaller overhead charges and provides a much larger return on the initial investment. It mostly runs with Linux or UNIX OS.  Linux dedicated server hosting is almost as frequently availed as Windows dedicated server, so either will do great. Dedicated web hosting comes to the fore in two manifestations; namely Unmanaged or Managed dedicated server hosting. Managed and unmanaged web hosting simply differs on the point of whether the web host will manage your website for you or not. Choosing between the two will be based on the point of whether you are adept at handling a VPS server or a dedicated server properly.  Another important choice one has to make is between cPanel and WHM. cPanel dedicated server is perhaps more beneficial when you plan to manage multiple number of websites or domains. However, if you only plan to concentrate on a singular website, WHM is a better option. Similarly, web hosts provide you with different core setting of web servers like dual core server, i5 core servers etc.

So to wrap it up, we only come to the conclusion that dedicated server hosting is the best way to go when it comes to availing web hosting services. It's all encompassing feature helps every kind of e-commerce website and it comes highly recommended with all its popularity.