Which hosting account will be best for me?

There are various kinds of web hosting accounts suitable for different web portals in regard to the resources or the web hosting environment they need. To select the most appropriate hosting service for your web portal, you need to judge what server-side software it demands, how many visits per day you anticipate at the start and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may have to be covered.

Shared Website Hosting - Pluses

The most adequate choice for small size websites with a few hundred or a few, each client pays only for their plan, which diminishes the overall cost per customer markedly. There are different web hosting accounts varying from one web hosting company to another, furnishing different quotas of hard disk storage and traffic, different mail account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can purchase a package that will include the specifications your online portal actually requires. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small scale plan that cannot host the web portal. At 50Webs Web Hosting, there is an enormous array of shared hosting accounts appropriate for private or small business sites that even provide pre-activated script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it simpler. If you start with a basic plan and you require more resources, moving to a high-end account requires only a mouse click.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Weak Sides

A downside of the shared website hosting environment is that the web hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot activate additional software. Given web portals, chiefly web shops, request software applications to be installed on the server for them to run, and with a shared web site hosting plan, you can install solely software that does not demand root-level access.

Virtual Private Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For online portals that demand server root access, or if your site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it works in exactly the same way.

VPS Servers

Both solutions usually come with complete root access and can be rebooted through a software interface by the client, independently from the web hosting provider. Just like the shared website hosting accounts, the private virtual web hosting server and the dedicated server hosting plans come with different specs depending on what the hosting company offers. A private virtual server package offers guaranteed server storage space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be enhanced for short spans of time on condition that there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be upgraded by changing or appending components. A virtual private web hosting server is easier to tackle as it offers a virtualization console, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, explore stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated server is more elaborate, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by tech-savvy clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, certain web hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server web hosting services where they perform dedicated web server management assignments on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of package or an additional feature.

Prior To Electing...

Settling on the top hosting package is crucial as it can influence the stable work of a site. Before selecting a package, compare the pros and cons, check carefully all the preconditions for the site to run properly, particularly if it is script-based, and, one more thing, if you have already picked a web hosting provider, the best thing to do would be to ask their client support team for advice as to which plan exactly would be best for the stable work of your online portal.