Top Shared Hosting

There are different types of shared hosting plans appropriate for different web portals in relation to the resources or the shared hosting environment they require. To choose the most proper shared hosting service for your website, you must access what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily visits you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be satisfied.

Shared web hosting - Positive Sides

The most appropriate choice for small sized online portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this form of hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which reduces the overall price per individual critically. There are diverse web hosting plans varying from one web hosting provider to another, delivering different quotas of web storage space and bandwidth, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can obtain a plan that will include the features your website really needs. You will not have to pay lots of money for a package you will not make use of, or end up with a small sized plan that cannot accommodate the website. We, at DreamHost, offer an enormous selection of shared hosting solutions appropriate for private or small business web portals that even include pre-installed script-based systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it simpler. If you commence with a low-cost account and you need more functionalities, moving to a better plan takes only a click.

Shared website hosting - Negative Signs

A downside 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 platforms. Some online portals, mainly web storefronts, request software applications to be present on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared website hosting plan, you can install solely software applications that do not require full root access.

Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web portals that need complete root-level access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of hits per day, what you demand is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A virtual server is a software emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it performs in exactly the same manner.

Virtual Private Servers

Both environments typically include server root access and can be restarted via a software tool by the client, independently from the web hosting supplier. Similar to the shared web hosting plans, the virtual private servers and the dedicated web hosting server packages have different characteristics based on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A VPS server web hosting account offers guaranteed disk storage space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be boosted for short intervals of time provided that there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware equipment it is availing of, and it can be revved up by changing or adding components. A virtual server is simpler to cope with as it includes a virtualization tool, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, explore stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web server is more complex, so such a package would rather be used by trained clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

However, given hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server hosting services where they complete web hosting server administration tasks instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional option.

Prior To Electing...

Settling on the top hosting plan is vital as it can influence the stable functioning of a web portal. Prior to settling on a plan, compare the pros and cons, study carefully all the requirements for the site to perform properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.