Which web space hosting package will be most optimal for me?

There are various varieties of web hosting services suitable for different web pages with regard to the system resources or the web hosting platform they demand. To choose the most suitable hosting service for your web portal, you have to estimate what server-side software it needs, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be fulfilled.

Shared Web Hosting - Virtues

The most optimal alternative for small web pages with a few hundred or webspace hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which minimizes the total price per person substantially. There are different web hosting accounts varying from one web hosting company to another, furnishing different quotas of storage space and traffic, different e-mail box account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can order an account that will have the resources your website actually needs. You will not need to pay plenty of money for an account you will not avail of, or end up with a small scale package that cannot accommodate the web portal. At Smartway Hosting, there is a large choice of shared hosting packages suitable for personal or small business portals that even provide pre-installed script-powered systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you start with a low-price package and you need more features, moving to a more feature-rich package involves only a click.

Shared Web Page Hosting - Weak Sides

A negative side of the shared web space hosting solution is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to install new software applications. Certain web sites, especially web stores, require applications to be activated on the hosting server for them to work, and with a shared webspace hosting account, you can activate only software that does not demand root access.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For web portals that demand root-level access, or if your web site has many 1000's or even millions of hits per day, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS web server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated machine and it performs in precisely the same manner.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both solutions commonly come with full server root privileges and can be restarted through a software platform by the user, independently from the hosting supplier. Akin to the shared site hosting accounts, the Virtual Private Server and the dedicated web hosting packages comprise different functionalities depending on what the hosting provider offers. A VPS server package offers guaranteed hard disk storage, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be boosted for short spells of time in case there are free system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limitation is the hardware it is availing of, and it can be revved up by changing or appending components. A private virtual server is simpler to manage as it offers virtualization software, which can be used to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such a package would rather be utilized by experienced clients.

Dedicated Servers

However, given hosts offer managed dedicated hosting solutions where they run server administration assignments instead of the client. This can be a part of package or an additional option.

Before You Decide...

Choosing the top hosting plan is crucial as it can affect the proper operation of a online portal. Before choosing an account, weigh the pros and cons, explore thoroughly all the requirements for the online portal to work properly, particularly if it is script-driven, and, last but not least, if you have already selected a hosting supplier, the best choice would be to ask their customer support staff for a suggestion as to which particular plan would be best for the stable operation of your online portal.