Best Shared Hosting

There are various sorts of shared hosting packages suitable for different web sites with regard to the system resources or the shared hosting environment they need. To select the most optimal shared hosting service for your web page, you have to calculate what server-side software applications it demands, how many daily hits you anticipate at the start and in the long run, as well as any other specific demands that may have to be covered.

Shared website hosting - Perks

The best alternative for small scale web portals with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting package. With this type of web site hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which minimizes the total cost per customer markedly. There are diverse web hosting solutions differing from one hosting vendor to another, furnishing different amounts of disk space and bandwidth, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can buy a package that will have the specs your site indeed needs. You will not have to pay a lot for a package you will not utilize, or end up with a small sized account that cannot host the site. We, at Vista 8 Online, offer a great assortment of shared hosting plans suitable for private or small business websites that even come with pre-installed script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you kick off with a low priced plan and you demand more system resources, upgrading to a more powerful plan takes only a click.

Shared Hosting - Weak Points

A drawback of the shared website hosting environment is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate new software applications. Given web sites, particularly web stores, require software applications to be installed on the web server for them to work, and with a shared website hosting account, you can activate solely software platforms that do not need full root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For online portals that demand complete root access, or if your web site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily hits, what you demand is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A VPS web server is a software emulation of a dedicated web server and it performs in an absolutely identical way.

Virtual Servers

Both solutions usually give server root access and can be restarted via a software program by the client, autonomously from the hosting provider. Like the shared hosting accounts, the virtual private servers and the dedicated server web hosting plans involve diverse characteristics based on what the hosting vendor has to offer. A virtual web server hosting account offers guaranteed data space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be expanded for brief periods of time provided that there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A VPS web server is easier to manage as it ships with a virtualization panel, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more intricate, so such an account would rather be resorted to by qualified customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, certain hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated server web hosting services where they implement web server administration operations on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the package or an extra option.

Before You Select...

Opting for the top hosting plan is crucial as it can have an effect on the stable performance of a online portal. Before settling on a package, weigh the pros and cons, examine carefully all the preconditions for the web portal to perform properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.