Top Hosting

There are various varieties of hosting plans appropriate for different web sites in regard to the resources or the hosting environment they demand. To pick the most appropriate hosting service for your website, you need to judge what server-side software programs it requires, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific requirements that may have to be met.

Shared Hosting - Benefits

The most optimal choice for small size web pages with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this form of hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which minimizes the overall price per person critically. There are various web hosting packages varying from one hosting provider to another, supplying different quotas of web storage and bandwidth, different e-mail box account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can get a plan that will include the specifications your online portal indeed demands. You will not need to pay lots of cash for a plan you will not avail of, or wind up with a small size plan that cannot host the site. We, at hostatnocost, offer an enormous variety of hosting accounts suitable for personal or small business websites that even offer pre-installed script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you commence with a less powerful plan and you need more system resources, upgrading to a high-end account involves just a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Hosting - Weaknesses

A downside of the shared website hosting solution is that the web servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to install additional software. Certain web portals, especially web shops, need applications to be present on the hosting server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can install only software platforms that do not require full server root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For online portals that request complete root-level access, or if your site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual private web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated server and it performs in a strictly identical way.

Virtual Private Web Hosting Servers

Both services generally come with full root-level access and can be rebooted via a software interface by the customer, independently from the web hosting provider. Just like the shared web hosting plans, the VPS and the dedicated web server hosting accounts contain different characteristics depending on what the hosting supplier has to offer. A virtual server plan contains guaranteed disk space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be increased for brief spans of time provided that there are free system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be upgraded by altering or appending components. A private virtual web hosting server is easier to administer as it comprises virtualization software, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, check statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such an account would rather be used by knowledgeable customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Yet, given web hosting providers provide managed dedicated hosting services where they execute server management assignments on behalf of the client. This can be included in the package or an additional service.

Prior To Reaching a Decision...

Choosing the top hosting plan is essential as it can affect the stable functioning of a website. Before choosing an account, weigh the pros and cons, survey carefully all the prerequisites for the site to operate properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still unsure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.