Quality Web Hosting

There are various types of web hosting plans suitable for different web sites with regard to the resources or the web hosting platform they demand. To select the most optimal web hosting service for your web site, you have to evaluate what server-side software applications it demands, how many daily visits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special needs that may need to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Virtues

The most suitable choice for small size web portals with several hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting plan. With this form of web site hosting, each client pays only for their account, which minimizes the overall cost per customer substantially. There are various web hosting accounts varying from one hosting firm to another, providing different quotas of server storage space and bandwidth, different electronic mail account quotas and so on. The good point is that you can pay for a package that will offer the specifications your web page indeed requires. You will not need to pay a lot for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small scale account that cannot accommodate the site. We, at Direct Biz-Host, offer a great assortment of web hosting plans appropriate for private or small business web portals that even offer pre-activated script-driven platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you start with a cheaper plan and you need more system resources, upgrading to a better plan involves only a click.

Shared Hosting - Negative Aspects

A drawback of the shared website hosting solution is that the servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software applications. Specific online portals, above all online storefronts, require applications to be activated on the web server for them to work, and with a shared web hosting solution, you can activate only software that does not need root access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For web pages that require complete server root access, or if your web site has many thousands or even millions of viewers per day, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A VPS server is a software emulation of a dedicated web server and it acts in strictly the same manner.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers

Both services commonly offer server root access and can be restarted via a software program by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting company. Akin to the shared web hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting server packages include diverse features depending on what the web hosting provider offers. A Virtual Private Server package includes guaranteed web space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be boosted for brief stretches of time in case there are free system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is availing of, and it can be configured by altering or adding components. A VPS hosting server is easier to tackle as it involves a virtualization panel, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, check stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web server is more intricate, so such an account would rather be utilized by tech-savvy customers.

Dedicated Servers

Nonetheless, some hosting corporations provide managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they implement hosting server management procedures instead of the client. This can be included in the package or an extra option.

Before You Decide...

Selecting the top hosting plan is important as it can influence the proper operation of a web page. Prior to picking a package, compare the pros and cons, investigate thoroughly all the prerequisites for the website to run properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still not sure which one is the best web hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.