Quality Hosting

There are various sorts of hosting accounts suitable for different web pages in relation to the resources or the hosting platform they need. To choose the most adequate hosting service for your website, you need to estimate what server-side software programs it requires, how many visits per day you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific demands that may need to be covered.

Shared web hosting - Upsides

The most appropriate choice for small scale web portals with several hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this form of web space hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which minimizes the overall cost per customer significantly. There are different web hosting solutions differing from one hosting vendor to another, furnishing different amounts of storage space and web traffic, different email account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can purchase a plan that will offer the specs your web portal actually needs. You will not need to pay plenty of cash for an account you will not avail of, or wind up with a small scale plan that cannot shelter the site. We, at IPguide, offer an extensive variety of hosting plans appropriate for private or small business pages that even provide pre-activated script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you begin with a cheaper plan and you need more features, upgrading to a better account requires only a click.

Shared Web Hosting - Negative Signs

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot install additional software applications. Specific web pages, especially web stores, request software applications to be present on the server for them to perform, and with a shared hosting platform, you can activate solely software applications that do not need server root access.

Virtual Private Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For portals that demand server root access, or if your web site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of visitors per day, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated package. A VPS web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated server and it works in an absolutely identical way.

Virtual Servers

Both services commonly offer root-level access and can be restarted via a software platform by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting provider. Like the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS and the dedicated server web hosting packages come with different specs based on what the hosting company offers. A virtual server package offers guaranteed disk storage, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can occasionally be increased for short intervals of time if there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is using, and it can be upgraded by changing or adding components. A VPS server is simpler to manipulate as it arrives with a virtualization panel, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, explore statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such a package would rather be resorted to by skilled users.

Dedicated Web Servers

Yet, given web hosts offer managed dedicated server web hosting services where they implement web server administration operations instead of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional feature.

Prior To Selecting...

Settling on the top hosting plan is vital as it can have an influence on the proper operation of a website. Prior to choosing a package, weigh the pros and cons, examine carefully all the prerequisites for the site to work properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which one is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.