Quality Shared Web Hosting

There are various types of shared web hosting plans appropriate for different web sites with regard to the system resources or the shared web hosting platform they require. To select the most relevant shared web hosting service for your website, you must estimate what server-side software applications it demands, how many daily hits you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific demands that may have to be satisfied.

Shared web hosting - Perquisites

The most appropriate option for small sized web portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this form of hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which minimizes the overall price per person considerably. There are different web hosting packages differing from one hosting firm to another, furnishing different amounts of data space and monthly bandwidth, different email quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can buy an account that will include the features your web portal in fact demands. You will not have to pay a lot of cash for a plan you will not make use of, or wind up with a small plan that cannot shelter the website. We, at Incorpmedia Hosting, offer a large collection of shared web hosting plans suitable for personal or small business websites that even provide pre-activated script-based systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you kick off with a basic account and you need more system resources, upgrading to a high-end package takes only a click of the mouse.

Shared Hosting - Minuses

A weakness of the shared web hosting solution is that the web hosting servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software platforms. Certain online portals, above all online shops, request applications to be installed on the web server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can install only software programs that do not request complete root access.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For sites that request complete root access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even millions of daily visits, what you require is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated server web hosting. A virtual private web server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated server and it functions in exactly the same manner.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

Both platforms typically include complete root-level access and can be restarted through a software tool by the user, independently from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared website hosting plans, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web hosting server accounts include different features based on what the hosting provider has to offer. A VPS web hosting plan contains guaranteed data space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can at times be enhanced for short periods of time if there are spare resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be configured by changing or appending components. A virtual server is simpler to tackle as it offers a virtualization platform, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, check stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more elaborate, so such a package would rather be utilized by skilled customers.

Dedicated Servers

Yet, given hosting vendors offer managed dedicated server web hosting services where they run dedicated server administration assignments instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional option.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Selecting the top hosting plan is vital as it can have an influence on the stable functioning of a website. Before settling on an account, compare the pros and cons, check completely all the prerequisites for the site to function properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still not sure which is the best shared web hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.