Which website hosting package will be most suitable for me?

There are various kinds of web hosting services suitable for different websites when it comes to the system resources or the hosting platform they need. To select the most optimal hosting service for your web site, you need to reckon what server-side software programs it demands, how many daily visits you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be covered.

Shared Hosting - Assets

The most appropriate alternative for small size online portals with several hundred or site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which diminishes the overall price per user drastically. There are different web hosting plans differing from one company to another, delivering different quotas of data storage space and web traffic, different email box account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can get a plan that will offer the resources your web site in fact demands. You will not need to pay lots of money for a plan you will not use, or end up with a small package that cannot accommodate the web page. At Episcopal Hosting Services, there is a great array of shared hosting solutions suitable for personal or small business pages that even come with pre-activated script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you begin with a basic plan and you demand more functionalities, moving to a more feature-rich plan involves only a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Disadvantages

A weakness of the shared website hosting platform is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Specific online portals, above all online shops, demand software applications to be present on the web server for them to work, and with a shared website hosting plan, you can activate only software programs that do not request complete root-level access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web portals that request complete server root access, or if your online portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of daily viewers, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual hosting server is a software imitation of a dedicated hosting server and it behaves in exactly the same manner.

VPSs

Both platforms traditionally come with full root privileges and can be rebooted through a software program by the user, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared webspace hosting accounts, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated hosting server accounts involve different specifications depending on what the web hosting vendor has to offer. A Virtual Private Server hosting account has guaranteed server storage, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be enlarged for short intervals of time in case there are spare system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is making use of, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A private virtual web hosting server is simpler to run as it includes a virtualization platform, which can be used to reboot it, to install applications, monitor stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more elaborate, so such an account would rather be used by knowledgeable customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Yet, given hosts offer managed dedicated web hosting solutions where they run web hosting server administration assignments on behalf of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional feature.

Before You Select...

Selecting the top hosting plan is vital as it can have an influence on the stable work of a web portal. Before choosing an account, weigh the pros and cons, review thoroughly all the prerequisites for the web portal to function properly, particularly if it is script-driven, and, last but not least, if you have already picked a web hosting provider, the best choice would be to ask their client support team for a recommendation as to which particular plan would be best for the stable operation of your web portal.