Which site hosting account will be most suitable for me?

There are various types of web hosting solutions appropriate for different sites with regard to the resources or the web hosting platform they require. To choose the most optimal hosting service for your web portal, you need to estimate what server-side software applications it demands, how many visits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be met.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Virtues

The most appropriate option for small scale websites with a few hundred or a few, each client pays only for their account, which reduces the overall cost per customer seriously. There are different web hosting packages differing from one hosting corporation to another, providing different amounts of data storage space and bandwidth, different e-mail account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can get a package that will offer the resources your online portal really needs. You will not have to pay a lot of cash for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small sized account that cannot shelter the site. At 100WebSpace, there is a big variety of shared hosting solutions suitable for personal or small business web portals that even offer pre-installed script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you kick off with a low-end account and you demand more functionalities, moving to a more powerful account involves only a click.

Shared Hosting - Weaknesses

A drawback of the shared web space hosting solution is that the servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to install new software programs. Specific web portals, above all web shops, demand software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to work, and with a shared hosting package, you can install solely software platforms that do not request full root access.

Private Virtual Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For online portals that demand complete root access, or if your web site has many 1000's or even millions of daily visits, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS server is a software simulation of a dedicated web server and it behaves in a precisely identical way.

Virtual Private Servers

Both solutions traditionally come with root privileges and can be restarted through a software platform by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Like the shared site hosting packages, the private virtual server hosting and the dedicated server web hosting packages contain different specs depending on what the hosting provider offers. A VPS server package includes guaranteed hard disk space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be extended for brief intervals of time if there are unused resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be configured by changing or appending components. A virtual web server is simpler to cope with as it offers a virtualization console, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, check statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more elaborate, so such a plan would rather be used by skilled clients.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

However, certain web hosts offer managed dedicated server hosting services where they carry out dedicated server management assignments instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an additional service.

Prior To Choosing...

Selecting the top hosting plan is important as it can have an effect on the proper functioning of a online portal. Before settling on a plan, compare the pros and cons, survey carefully all the requirements for the site to work properly, especially if it is script-powered, and, last but not least, if you have already settled on a web hosting firm, the best choice would be to ask their client support staff for a recommendation as to which plan exactly would be best for the stable performance of your web site.