Top Web Hosting

There are various kinds of web hosting packages suitable for different websites in terms of the system resources or the web hosting environment they require. To select the most proper web hosting service for your online portal, you need to judge what server-side software it needs, how many visits per day you anticipate at the start and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be met.

Shared web hosting - Advantages

The most optimal choice for small scale online portals with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this type of website hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which decreases the total cost per client noticeably. There are diverse web hosting plans varying from one web hosting vendor to another, supplying different quotas of disk storage and monthly traffic, different email mailbox account quotas and so on. The good point is that you can buy a package that will provide the specifications your site really demands. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small size account that cannot host the online portal. We, at Direct Biz-Host, offer a large choice of web hosting packages appropriate for private or small business websites that even provide pre-installed script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you begin with a low priced plan and you need more functionalities, upgrading to a more powerful package takes only a click.

Shared website hosting - Drawbacks

A drawback of the shared website hosting platform is that the servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot activate new software applications. Some web pages, particularly online storefronts, demand applications to be present on the server for them to run, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can install only software applications that do not request full server root access.

Private Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For online portals that demand full root access, or if your web site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of hits per day, what you require is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A Virtual Private Server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web server and it behaves in a precisely identical way.

Private Virtual Web Servers

Both environments generally include full server root privileges and can be rebooted via a software tool by the user, autonomously from the hosting supplier. Similar to the shared web hosting plans, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting packages contain diverse specifications depending on what the web hosting supplier offers. A Virtual Private Server package has guaranteed disk space, RAM and CPU quotas that can at times be expanded for short stretches of time in case there are available system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web server, the only limitation is the hardware it is making use of, and it can be configured by changing or appending components. A VPS web hosting server is simpler to run as it comes with a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such a solution would rather be resorted to by trained users.

Dedicated Servers

Still, certain web hosting corporations offer managed dedicated server hosting services where they execute dedicated web server management procedures instead of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional option.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Selecting the top hosting plan is essential as it can have an effect on the proper work of a site. Prior to choosing a plan, weigh the pros and cons, examine carefully all the preconditions for the site to operate properly, especially if it is script-powered. And if you are still unsure which is the best web hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.