Which website hosting solution will benefit me most?

There are various varieties of web hosting solutions suitable for different web sites in relation to the resources or the hosting platform they need. To pick the best hosting service for your site, you must access what server-side software it demands, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be satisfied.

Shared Hosting - Good Points

The most relevant option for small sized online portals with several hundred or webspace hosting, each client pays only for their account, which decreases the overall cost per customer substantially. There are various web hosting accounts differing from one hosting vendor to another, delivering different quotas of server storage and monthly traffic, different email address account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can get a plan that will provide the specs your web portal in fact requires. You will not need to pay plenty of cash for a plan you will not avail of, or wind up with a small scale account that cannot shelter the web page. At NTC Hosting, there is a great choice of shared hosting packages suitable for personal or small business web portals that even provide pre-installed script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you begin with a low grade account and you need more functionalities, moving to a more powerful plan involves just a mouse click.

Shared Web Space Hosting - Inconveniences

A negative side of the shared web site hosting platform is that the hosting servers have some software platforms installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Specific online portals, chiefly web stores, need software applications to be installed on the hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared hosting solution, you can install only software that does not demand complete root-level access.

VPSs and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web sites that require full root-level access, or if your website has many thousands or even millions of daily hits, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it behaves in a strictly identical manner.

VPS Web Hosting Servers

Both solutions commonly offer root access and can be rebooted via a software platform by the user, independently from the web hosting supplier. Analogous to the shared web space hosting packages, the virtual private web server hosting and the dedicated web server hosting packages have diverse characteristics based on what the web hosting provider has to offer. A virtual hosting server package includes guaranteed storage space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can occasionally be increased for short intervals of time on condition that there are spare system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware configuration it is making use of, and it can be upgraded by changing or appending components. A VPS hosting server is easier to manage as it ships with virtualization software, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, explore stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more intricate, so such a solution would rather be used by experienced customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, some web hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they execute dedicated web hosting server administration operations instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an additional service.

Before You Select...

Opting for the top hosting package is essential as it can affect the proper functioning of a web portal. Before picking a plan, compare the pros and cons, study thoroughly all the preconditions for the web site to run properly, especially if it is script-driven, and, last but not least, if you have already settled on a web hosting supplier, the best you could do would be to ask their support staff for an opinion as to which particular package would be best for the stable functioning of your web portal.