Top Website Hosting

There are different varieties of website hosting plans appropriate for different web sites in terms of the system resources or the website hosting platform they need. To pick the most adequate website hosting service for your site, you must calculate what server-side software programs it requires, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special demands that may need to be satisfied.

Shared Hosting - Privileges

The most relevant alternative for small sized online portals with several hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this type of web space hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which minimizes the total price per person seriously. There are different web hosting packages differing from one web hosting firm to another, providing different amounts of disk storage space and monthly traffic, different mail quotas and so on. The good point is that you can obtain an account that will include the specs your web site in fact demands. You will not have to pay plenty of money for a package you will not use, or wind up with a small package that cannot accommodate the web site. We, at Advantage IT Solutions, offer a vast selection of website hosting packages suitable for personal or small business web portals that even provide pre-installed script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it simpler. If you start with a low-price account and you demand more resources, moving to a more powerful account involves just a mouse click.

Shared Hosting - Shortcomings

A negative aspect of the shared web hosting environment is that the web hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you are unable to activate new software programs. Certain web portals, above all web storefronts, require software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared web hosting platform, you can install solely software that does not need root access.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For sites that need complete root-level access, or if your site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you demand is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A private virtual web hosting server is a software imitation of a dedicated hosting server and it operates in absolutely the same manner.

Virtual Servers

Both solutions generally come with complete server root access and can be restarted through a software platform by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Much like the shared website hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web hosting packages contain diverse specifications based on what the hosting company offers. A private virtual web server hosting plan has guaranteed web space, RAM and CPU quotas that can occasionally be extended for brief periods of time provided that there are available system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is availing of, and it can be revved up by changing or appending components. A VPS server is simpler to manage as it arrives with a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, monitor statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated server is more elaborate, so such a solution would rather be resorted to by skilled customers.

Dedicated Servers

Yet, some web hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated hosting solutions where they implement server management tasks instead of the client. This can be included in the package or an extra upgrade.

Before You Opt...

Choosing the top hosting plan is crucial as it can have an influence on the proper functioning of a web page. Before selecting an account, weigh the pros and cons, examine thoroughly all the prerequisites for the site to operate properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which is the best website hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.