Which site hosting plan will benefit me most?

There are various types of web hosting accounts appropriate for different sites in regard to the resources or the web hosting platform they demand. To select the most appropriate hosting service for your website, you must judge what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be met.

Shared Site Hosting - Perquisites

The most appropriate alternative for small size websites with several hundred or site hosting, each user pays only for their account, which decreases the overall cost per user drastically. There are diverse web hosting solutions varying from one hosting supplier to another, offering different quotas of web storage and monthly bandwidth, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can obtain an account that will include the features your website actually demands. You will not have to pay lots of money for a package you will not utilize, or wind up with a small plan that cannot host the online portal. At CrownHost, there is an immense variety of shared hosting solutions suitable for private or small business pages that even offer pre-installed script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you begin with a low-price package and you need more functionalities, upgrading to a more powerful plan demands just a click.

Shared Web Page Hosting - Inconveniences

A weak side of the shared site hosting solution is that the web servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate new software platforms. Certain web pages, chiefly web stores, require applications to be available on the server for them to perform, and with a shared web space hosting account, you can install only software programs that do not request complete server root access.

Virtual Private Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web portals that demand complete root-level access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even millions of visits per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web server and it functions in an exactly identical way.

Virtual Hosting Servers

Both platforms typically offer server root access and can be rebooted through a software tool by the client, independently from the web hosting supplier. Analogous to the shared web space hosting plans, the VPS server and the dedicated server web hosting accounts comprise different characteristics based on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A VPS hosting server package has guaranteed data storage, random access memory and CPU quotas that can occasionally be boosted for brief spells of time if there are available resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is using, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A private virtual server is simpler to administer as it includes virtualization software, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated server is more complex, so such an account would rather be utilized by knowledgeable users.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nonetheless, some web hosts provide managed dedicated hosting services where they carry out dedicated web server administration operations on behalf of the client. This can be included in the package or an additional upgrade.

Prior To Selecting...

Selecting the top hosting package is crucial as it can influence the proper work of a online portal. Prior to settling on a package, compare the pros and cons, survey completely all the requirements for the web portal to perform properly, particularly if it is script-driven, and, last but not least, if you have already settled on a web host, the best you could do would be to ask their customer support staff for a suggestion as to which particular plan would be best for the stable performance of your web portal.