Top Shared Hosting

There are different types of shared hosting packages appropriate for different web portals in relation to the resources or the shared hosting platform they need. To pick the best shared hosting service for your web portal, you have to calculate what server-side software applications it needs, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific demands that may have to be satisfied.

Shared Web Hosting - Positive Aspects

The most relevant option for small scale online portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this type of hosting, each client pays only for their account, which lowers the overall cost per person noticeably. There are diverse web hosting plans differing from one company to another, supplying different quotas of web space and traffic, different electronic mail account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can order a package that will offer the resources your site indeed requires. You will not have to pay plenty of money for a package you will not use, or wind up with a small scale plan that cannot host the web portal. We, at Mnistrat Hosting uk, offer a large assortment of shared hosting plans appropriate for private or small business web portals that even provide pre-activated script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you begin with a low-end plan and you demand more features, moving to a high-end package requires only a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Weak Sides

A downside of the shared web hosting solution is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Specific sites, chiefly web storefronts, demand software applications to be available on the web server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting environment, you can activate only software that does not request complete root-level access.

VPSs and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For portals that require full server root access, or if your online portal has many 1000's or even millions of daily visits, what you demand is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A VPS server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated solution and it operates in precisely the same way.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

Both solutions generally offer root-level access and can be restarted through a software platform by the user, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Much like the shared hosting accounts, the virtual private servers and the dedicated hosting server accounts contain different specifications depending on what the hosting provider offers. A private virtual server web hosting account offers guaranteed storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be expanded for brief spells of time provided that there are free resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware architecture it is using, and it can be upgraded by changing or adding components. A VPS web server is easier to manipulate as it involves a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, examine stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be used by qualified customers.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

However, certain hosting vendors offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they perform server administration procedures on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional upgrade.

Before You Select...

Settling on the top hosting plan is crucial as it can have an effect on the stable performance of a web portal. Prior to selecting a plan, compare the pros and cons, survey completely all the preconditions for the site to work properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.