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There are different kinds of hosting packages appropriate for different sites when it comes to the system resources or the hosting environment they need. To select the most appropriate hosting service for your web page, you have to estimate what server-side software programs it requires, how many daily visits you expect at the start and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may have to be met.

Shared website hosting - Positive Points

The most relevant alternative for small sized web portals with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this type of hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which diminishes the overall cost per person noticeably. There are diverse web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting company to another, supplying different quotas of hard disk storage space and bandwidth, different e-mail quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can get a plan that will include the resources your website actually demands. You will not have to pay lots of cash for a package you will not utilize, or end up with a small account that cannot host the web site. We, at Website Hosting, offer an immense collection of hosting solutions suitable for personal or small business web sites that even offer pre-installed script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you commence with a cheaper plan and you require more features, moving to a high-end account involves just a mouse click.

Shared Website Hosting - Drawbacks

A negative aspect of the shared web hosting solution is that the servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot install new software platforms. Specific web portals, above all web storefronts, demand applications to be installed on the web hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared website hosting package, you can activate solely software applications that do not need root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web pages that need server root access, or if your website has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS hosting server is a software emulation of a dedicated server and it acts in an exactly identical manner.

Virtual Private Servers

Both environments usually come with root privileges and can be rebooted through a software tool by the customer, independently from the hosting provider. Much like the shared hosting accounts, the VPS and the dedicated hosting server plans have different specs based on what the web hosting vendor has to offer. A VPS web server account has guaranteed web storage, RAM and CPU quotas that can sometimes be extended for short intervals of time provided that there are free resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware architecture it is using, and it can be revved up by changing or appending components. A private virtual web server is simpler to cope with as it offers virtualization software, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, explore statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such a plan would rather be utilized by competent clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

Still, some companies offer managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they run dedicated server management tasks instead of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional feature.

Before You Choose...

Opting for the top hosting package is important as it can have an effect on the stable operation of a web portal. Before settling on a package, weigh the pros and cons, check thoroughly all the preconditions for the online portal to operate properly, especially if it is script-powered. And if you are still in doubt which is the best hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.