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If you don't have an older Dropbox account with the "Public" folder, you could try the following places for hosting a website:
If you don't have an older Dropbox account with the "Public" folder, you could try the following places for hosting a website.
## Terms in the Industry
* **Co-location:** You build your own server computer and you rent physical space in a data center. You give them your server computer and pay for physical space, bandwidth, and electricity. This option is expensive. You also need to build an entire server from scratch (buy a case, CPU, RAM, hard drive, etc.), and if the hardware dies, it's all on you.
* **Dedicated Server:** They have server computers for you. You rent one of them. When you stop service, they give the server to a new customer. This option is less expensive but overkill for simply hosting files. If the server hardware dies, you can request a new one.
* **Virtual Private Server:** You rent *part* of one of their servers. You are given a certain amount of disk space, CPU and RAM on a server computer. When logging in, it looks like you have an entire operating system to yourself, but it's completely virtual. Your OS might say that you have 4 GB of RAM even if the actual server has 128 GB total shared among several people. This gives you a reasonable amount of control, and you can also host a game server or your own programs. If the server hardware dies, they will move you to a new server.
* **Shared Hosting:** You are simply given disk space on one of the company's servers. You cannot run your own programs. You are not assigned CPU or RAM. The company makes your files available as a website for you. If the server hardware dies, they will move your files to a new server.
* **Cloud Hosting:** This option works a bit differently than the others. You are not tied to any physical server. You create an "application," decide to pay for a certain amount of CPU, RAM, and your code is automatically run on any available server in the company's network.
* **Content Delivery Network (CDN):** This is like shared hosting because you are only given disk space, but typically there's no support for PHP or scripting. What makes CDNs different is that it copies your files to tens of servers across the world, so users can download your files much quicker (as the files will be on a nearby server owned by the company). You don't deal with any specific server hardware because your files are just replicated to many servers.
## Well Known, Trusted Companies