Which website hosting solution will be most suitable for me?

There are different types of web hosting solutions suitable for different web portals in regard to the system resources or the website hosting environment they demand. To pick the most proper hosting service for your web portal, you must estimate what server-side software it requires, how many hits per day you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be answered.

Shared Web Space Hosting - Assets

The best alternative for small web portals with several hundred or site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which decreases the total cost per person drastically. There are various web hosting accounts varying from one web hosting vendor to another, supplying different quotas of web space and traffic, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can pay for a plan that will offer the features your website in fact needs. You will not have to pay a lot for a plan you will not avail of, or end up with a small size package that cannot host the web page. At BRAND A CLOUD, there is an extensive collection of shared hosting plans suitable for personal or small business websites that even offer pre-activated script-driven systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you begin with a less powerful package and you need more system resources, moving to a more advanced package takes only a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Negative Sides

A weakness of the shared web site hosting environment is that the servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software applications. Specific sites, particularly online stores, demand software applications to be present on the hosting server for them to work, and with a shared hosting package, you can install solely software programs that do not request full root access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Servers

For online portals that need full server root access, or if your web portal has many 1000's or even millions of daily viewers, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual private hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated solution and it runs in precisely the same way.

VPS Web Hosting Servers

Both platforms usually give root-level access and can be rebooted via a software tool by the user, independently from the hosting company. Similar to the shared web site hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated hosting server accounts contain diverse functionalities based on what the hosting company has to offer. A VPS web hosting server package has guaranteed data storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be boosted for brief spells of time on condition that there are free system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be revved up by altering or adding components. A VPS web server is easier to administer as it comes with a virtualization platform, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, check statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such an account would rather be used by trained users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Yet, some web hosting companies offer managed dedicated web hosting services where they perform dedicated web hosting server administration tasks on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional option.

Prior To Choosing...

Settling on the top hosting package is vital as it can have an effect on the proper functioning of a online portal. Before opting for an account, compare the pros and cons, appraise carefully all the prerequisites for the web portal to work properly, especially if it is script-driven, and, last but not least, if you have already settled on a hosting corporation, the best thing to do would be to ask their customer support team for an opinion as to which package exactly would be best for the stable operation of your web site.