Best Shared Hosting

There are different varieties of shared hosting services appropriate for different websites in regard to the system resources or the shared hosting platform they need. To select the most optimal shared hosting service for your web site, you have to estimate what server-side software applications it requires, how many daily visits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special demands that may have to be answered.

Shared Web Hosting - Dividends

The most optimal choice for small size online portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this form of web space hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which decreases the overall price per person drastically. There are different web hosting solutions varying from one hosting firm to another, delivering different quotas of server storage space and monthly traffic, different e-mail quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can buy an account that will have the features your site in fact demands. You will not need to pay plenty of cash for a package you will not make use of, or wind up with a small sized plan that cannot shelter the online portal. We, at PrincetonStar ServerOne, offer a large selection of shared hosting plans appropriate for personal or small business sites that even come with pre-installed script-based platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you start with a basic package and you demand more features, upgrading to a more advanced package takes just a mouse click.

Shared Web Hosting - Disadvantages

A disadvantage of the shared website hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software programs. Some web portals, particularly web stores, demand software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared website hosting plan, you can activate solely software programs that do not need full server root access.

Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For portals that demand full server root access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even millions of viewers per day, what you require is a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. A private virtual hosting server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated server and it behaves in exactly the same manner.

VPS Web Servers

Both services usually come with full root-level access and can be restarted via a software interface by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Similar to the shared hosting accounts, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting packages come with diverse characteristics based on what the web hosting vendor has to offer. A private virtual server web hosting package has guaranteed hard disk storage space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can at times be enlarged for short spells of time on condition that there are free system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is availing of, and it can be upgraded by changing or adding components. A virtual web hosting server is simpler to run as it includes a virtualization console, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complicated, so such a solution would rather be used by knowledgeable customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nevertheless, certain web hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they execute dedicated hosting server management operations on behalf of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional upgrade.

Before You Decide...

Settling on the top hosting package is crucial as it can affect the proper operation of a web portal. Prior to selecting a plan, weigh the pros and cons, appraise thoroughly all the preconditions for the site to work properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still in doubt which is the best shared 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.