Which website hosting account will suit me best?

There are various types of web hosting services appropriate for different sites with regard to the system resources or the hosting platform they require. To select the most adequate hosting service for your website, you must access what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily hits you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific demands that may need to be answered.

Shared Hosting - Pluses

The most optimal choice for small sites with several hundred or web space hosting, each client pays only for their account, which minimizes the total cost per user drastically. There are different web hosting solutions differing from one web hosting vendor to another, offering different amounts of data space and bandwidth, different email quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can order a plan that will have the specifications your site really requires. You will not need to pay lots of cash for an account you will not avail of, or end up with a small plan that cannot host the site. At Zona Informatica, there is an extensive collection of shared hosting accounts suitable for private or small business web portals that even include pre-installed script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you begin with a low-end plan and you require more functionalities, moving to a better package takes just a mouse click.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Drawbacks

A drawback of the shared webspace hosting platform is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot activate additional software applications. Some websites, chiefly online storefronts, require software applications to be installed on the web server for them to operate, and with a shared site hosting plan, you can activate only software programs that do not request complete root access.

VPS Web Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web portals that demand root access, or if your portal has many thousands or even millions of visits per day, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS web server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated solution and it operates in an exactly identical manner.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both environments typically offer root access and can be restarted via a software platform by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Much like the shared website hosting plans, the Virtual Private Server hosting and the dedicated server web hosting plans include diverse specs based on what the web hosting provider has to offer. A VPS web hosting plan has guaranteed hard disk space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can occasionally be extended for brief periods of time provided that there are spare resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware it is availing of, and it can be revamped by changing or adding components. A VPS hosting server is simpler to run as it ships with a virtualization console, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, check statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more elaborate, so such an account would rather be resorted to by knowledgeable users.

Dedicated Servers

Nonetheless, certain web hosting companies offer managed dedicated hosting services where they implement dedicated web server management tasks on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an extra service.

Before You Decide...

Choosing the top hosting package is crucial as it can affect the stable functioning of a web site. Before choosing an account, compare the pros and cons, examine carefully all the requirements for the web site to run properly, especially if it is script-powered, and, last but not least, if you have already settled on a web hosting provider, the best choice would be to ask their support staff for an opinion as to which particular package would be best for the proper performance of your website.