Top Shared Hosting

There are various sorts of shared hosting accounts appropriate for different web portals in terms of the resources or the shared hosting environment they demand. To select the most appropriate shared hosting service for your web page, you must reckon what server-side software it demands, how many hits per day you expect at the start and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Perks

The most adequate choice for small sized web portals with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this form of web site hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which minimizes the overall cost per user significantly. There are different web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting corporation to another, furnishing different quotas of hard disk space and monthly traffic, different e-mailbox account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can pay for an account that will include the features your web portal indeed needs. You will not have to pay lots of money for an account you will not use, or end up with a small size package that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at PrincetonStar ServerOne, offer a great variety of shared hosting packages appropriate for private or small business pages that even offer pre-installed script-based platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you commence with a basic plan and you demand more features, moving to a more powerful account takes only a click.

Shared web hosting - Negative Sides

A negative side of the shared website hosting platform is that the web hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Given web pages, particularly online storefronts, request applications to be installed on the hosting server for them to run, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can activate solely software that does not demand root-level access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web sites that need full root access, or if your web site has many thousands or even millions of visitors per day, what you require is a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated web hosting server and it works in an absolutely identical way.

Virtual Web Servers

Both platforms commonly offer full server root privileges and can be rebooted through a software program by the client, autonomously from the hosting company. Just like the shared web hosting accounts, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting packages come with diverse functionalities based on what the web hosting vendor offers. A virtual web hosting server account contains guaranteed disk storage space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be increased for brief intervals of time in case there are unused resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is making use of, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A VPS hosting server is easier to cope with as it comes with virtualization software, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be used by qualified users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

However, certain hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they perform hosting server management tasks on behalf of the client. This can be a part of package or an additional service.

Before You Decide...

Choosing the top hosting package is crucial as it can affect the proper performance of a online portal. Before settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, explore carefully all the requirements for the website to function properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still not sure which one is the best shared hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.