Quality Website Hosting

There are different sorts of website hosting solutions appropriate for different web sites in terms of the resources or the website hosting platform they demand. To pick the best website hosting service for your website, you must estimate what server-side software programs it requires, how many daily hits you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Perks

The best alternative for small scale web portals with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this type of web space hosting, each user pays only for their account, which decreases the total price per customer significantly. There are diverse web hosting solutions differing from one hosting corporation to another, offering different amounts of server storage space and traffic, different e-mail account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can order a plan that will provide the specs your website really requires. You will not have to pay a lot for a plan you will not make use of, or wind up with a small scale package that cannot host the site. We, at SmartHosting4u, offer an enormous choice of website hosting packages suitable for personal or small business web sites that even include pre-activated script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you commence with a low-price package and you require more system resources, moving to a more feature-rich package involves only a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Downsides

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting solution is that the web hosting servers have some software platforms installed on them and you cannot install additional software programs. Specific web portals, mainly web stores, require software applications to be available on the hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared hosting plan, you can install only software programs that do not demand complete root access.

Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web portals that need complete server root access, or if your web site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of viewers per day, what you need is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A VPS web server is a software emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it operates in precisely the same way.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers

Both platforms typically include full root privileges and can be restarted via a software tool by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting provider. Just like the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web hosting plans involve different specifications based on what the hosting provider has to offer. A VPS account contains guaranteed hard disk storage space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be boosted for short intervals of time provided that there are free system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is utilizing, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A VPS hosting server is easier to handle as it offers a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to restart it, to install applications, monitor statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more elaborate, so such an account would rather be utilized by qualified clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Still, given web hosting providers offer managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they execute server management procedures instead of the customer. This can be included in the package or an extra feature.

Prior To Choosing...

Picking the top hosting plan is crucial as it can affect the proper work of a website. Before settling on a package, weigh the pros and cons, examine completely all the prerequisites for the online portal to work properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which is the best website hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.