Quality Shared Hosting

There are various kinds of shared hosting solutions appropriate for different websites with regard to the resources or the shared hosting platform they require. To pick the best shared hosting service for your web portal, you have to access what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific requirements that may need to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Positive Aspects

The most relevant option for small sized web portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this type of web hosting, each user pays only for their account, which lowers the total price per individual substantially. There are various web hosting solutions varying from one hosting company to another, furnishing different quotas of data space and web traffic, different e-mail box account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can obtain a plan that will have the specifications your web site indeed needs. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not use, or end up with a small scale account that cannot shelter the web site. We, at PrincetonStar ServerOne, offer an extensive selection of shared hosting solutions appropriate for personal or small business web sites that even provide pre-activated script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you begin with a less powerful plan and you require more system resources, moving to a more powerful account demands only a click of the mouse.

Shared web hosting - Disadvantages

A weak side of the shared hosting environment is that the web hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot activate new software applications. Given websites, particularly online shops, require software applications to be available on the server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting plan, you can install solely software programs that do not require full root-level access.

VPS Servers and Dedicated Servers

For portals that request complete server root access, or if your site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily hits, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. A virtual private web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated hosting server and it operates in a strictly identical manner.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both environments traditionally include complete root access and can be restarted through a software tool by the customer, independently from the hosting supplier. Similar to the shared website hosting plans, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting packages come with different specs depending on what the hosting provider offers. A VPS web hosting account offers guaranteed data storage, RAM and CPU quotas that can occasionally be enlarged for short spans of time in case there are free resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be revamped by altering or adding components. A virtual private web server is simpler to handle as it ships with a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, and so on. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by knowledgeable clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, certain hosting vendors offer managed dedicated web hosting services where they execute dedicated web server administration operations on behalf of the client. This can be a part of plan or an extra upgrade.

Before You Select...

Selecting the top hosting plan is essential as it can have an influence on the stable work of a site. Before selecting an account, compare the pros and cons, appraise completely all the prerequisites for the online portal to function properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.