Which website hosting account will be most optimal for me?

There are different kinds of web hosting accounts suitable for different web portals when it comes to the system resources or the website hosting environment they need. To choose the most adequate hosting service for your web portal, you need to reckon what server-side software applications it requires, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special requirements that may have to be met.

Shared Site Hosting - Privileges

The most suitable option for small sites with several hundred or sng, each customer pays only for their account, which decreases the total price per client radically. There are different web hosting plans differing from one web hosting vendor to another, delivering different amounts of web storage space and web traffic, different email box account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can obtain a plan that will include the features your website really requires. You will not need to pay plenty of money for an account you will not use, or wind up with a small package that cannot accommodate the web portal. At ConeXioneXtendida, there is a large variety of shared hosting solutions suitable for private or small business pages that even come with pre-activated script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you kick off with a basic account and you need more features, upgrading to a high-end plan takes only a mouse click.

Shared Web Page Hosting - Negative Aspects

A shortcoming of the shared web space hosting solution is that the web hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software programs. Specific websites, chiefly web stores, require applications to be present on the web server for them to work, and with a shared hosting platform, you can install only software applications that do not need full root access.

Private Virtual Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web sites that demand full root access, or if your web portal has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily hits, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A private virtual server is a software emulation of a dedicated web server and it functions in an exactly identical manner.

VPS Servers

Both environments usually give full root-level access and can be restarted through a software program by the client, independently from the hosting provider. Much like the shared hosting plans, the private virtual web hosting server and the dedicated hosting plans involve different specs depending on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A Virtual Private Server package has guaranteed web space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be extended for short periods of time provided that there are spare resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A virtual private web hosting server is easier to handle as it ships with a virtualization tool, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, check statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more intricate, so such a package would rather be used by experienced users.

Dedicated Servers

Nonetheless, given web hosting vendors offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they perform dedicated server management operations on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the package or an extra option.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Choosing the top hosting package is vital as it can have an effect on the stable work of a web site. Before choosing a package, compare the pros and cons, examine carefully all the prerequisites for the online portal to work properly, particularly if it is script-based, and, one more thing, if you have already chosen a hosting vendor, the best choice would be to ask their support team for a recommendation as to which particular plan would be best for the proper work of your website.