Which site hosting plan will be best for me?

There are different kinds of web hosting accounts suitable for different web sites with regard to the resources or the website hosting platform they demand. To select the most appropriate hosting service for your web page, you must evaluate what server-side software programs it requires, how many hits per day you expect at the start and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be covered.

Shared Web Page Hosting - Perks

The most suitable alternative for small web pages with a few hundred or a few, each customer pays only for their plan, which lowers the overall cost per client radically. There are various web hosting plans varying from one hosting vendor to another, supplying different quotas of web space and monthly bandwidth, different e-mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can pay for an account that will provide the specifications your web portal really needs. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not avail of, or end up with a small scale plan that cannot host the web page. At HostingGANG, there is a wide collection of shared hosting plans appropriate for personal or small business web portals that even offer pre-activated script-driven systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you begin with a low-end package and you demand more resources, moving to a more feature-rich account takes just a click.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Weak Sides

A downside of the shared web page hosting solution is that the hosting servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to install new software programs. Specific web pages, above all web shops, require applications to be installed on the server for them to operate, and with a shared web hosting plan, you can install solely software applications that do not need root-level access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web portals that need complete server root access, or if your website has many thousands or even millions of visits per day, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual private hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated solution and it performs in exactly the same way.

VPS Web Servers

Both platforms commonly give full root-level access and can be restarted through a software program by the client, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Just like the shared web page hosting plans, the VPS web server and the dedicated server web hosting plans contain diverse specifications based on what the web hosting provider offers. A VPS hosting server package contains guaranteed hard disk storage space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be extended for brief periods of time in case there are unused system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is availing of, and it can be revved up by altering or appending components. A virtual private hosting server is simpler to run as it comes with a virtualization console, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated server is more intricate, so such a solution would rather be utilized by qualified customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nevertheless, some hosting vendors offer managed dedicated hosting solutions where they perform web hosting server administration procedures on behalf of the client. This can be a part of plan or an additional option.

Before You Choose...

Selecting the top hosting package is crucial as it can have an effect on the stable operation of a online portal. Prior to picking a package, compare the pros and cons, investigate completely all the prerequisites for the website to run properly, especially if it is script-driven, and, last but not least, if you have already selected a web hosting vendor, the best thing to do would be to ask their support staff for a suggestion as to which plan exactly would be best for the proper work of your web site.