Shared hosting, resellers, VPS and the rest.
SHARED HOSTING
Many accounts on one server, sharing its resources.
Cheapest, and limits apply because others share the machine.
RESELLER HOSTING
An account that can create and manage hosting accounts for others.
Used by agencies and people selling hosting.
VPS
A virtual private server. A portion of a machine reserved for you, with root access.
You are responsible for maintaining it.
DEDICATED SERVER
A whole physical machine.
CPANEL
The control panel for managing your hosting account: files, databases, email, domains.
WHM
The control panel above cPanel, used by resellers and server administrators to manage accounts.
UPTIME
The proportion of time a service is available.
BANDWIDTH
The volume of data transferred to and from your account over a period.
DISK SPACE
Storage used by your files, databases and email.
INODES
The count of individual files and folders, which is limited separately from disk space.
