Top Web Hosting

There are various types of web hosting services suitable for different web pages in relation to the system resources or the web hosting platform they need. To choose the most appropriate web hosting service for your website, you must reckon what server-side software applications it demands, how many daily visits you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other special demands that may need to be met.

Shared Hosting - Privileges

The most relevant option for small sized web sites with several hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this type of site hosting, each user pays only for their account, which lowers the overall price per user substantially. There are diverse web hosting plans varying from one hosting vendor to another, delivering different quotas of server space and monthly traffic, different email mailbox account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can obtain a plan that will have the specs your online portal indeed needs. You will not have to pay lots of money for a package you will not make use of, or end up with a small size account that cannot accommodate the web site. We, at Cloud4Host, offer a big variety of web hosting solutions suitable for private or small business web sites that even provide pre-installed script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you start with a less powerful account and you demand more resources, upgrading to a high-end package involves only a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Weak Points

A weak side of the shared web hosting solution is that the web hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install new software platforms. Certain sites, above all online shops, demand software applications to be activated on the web server for them to perform, and with a shared hosting plan, you can activate only software that does not request full server root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For portals that request complete root-level access, or if your site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of viewers per day, what you require is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A virtual private web server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it runs in strictly the same manner.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers

Both solutions typically provide root-level access and can be rebooted through a software program by the customer, independently from the hosting provider. Analogous to the shared web hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated server hosting packages include different specs depending on what the web hosting vendor offers. A VPS hosting account has guaranteed disk space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can sometimes be boosted for short periods of time provided that there are spare system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limitation is the hardware equipment it is using, and it can be configured by altering or adding components. A Virtual Private Server is easier to handle as it comes with a virtualization software platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, monitor stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated web server is more intricate, so such a package would rather be resorted to by skilled customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

However, certain web hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated hosting services where they perform web hosting server administration procedures instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an extra option.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Settling on the top hosting package is important as it can influence the stable functioning of a website. Prior to opting for a package, compare the pros and cons, survey completely all the preconditions for the web page to work properly, especially if it is script-powered. And if you are still in doubt which is the best web hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.