Quality Web Hosting

There are various types of web hosting solutions appropriate for different sites with regard to the resources or the web hosting platform they need. To select the most adequate web hosting service for your website, you have to judge what server-side software programs it demands, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific requirements that may need to be covered.

Shared Website Hosting - Strong Sides

The most appropriate choice for small scale web pages with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this form of site hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which lowers the overall cost per user substantially. There are different web hosting plans varying from one hosting provider to another, furnishing different quotas of disk storage space and web traffic, different email quotas and so on. The good point is that you can buy a package that will include the features your website indeed needs. You will not need to pay lots of cash for a package you will not utilize, or wind up with a small sized account that cannot shelter the website. We, at Linux Hosts Inc., offer a vast assortment of web hosting solutions suitable for private or small business web portals that even come with pre-installed script-based systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you commence with a less powerful package and you require more resources, moving to a high-end package takes only a mouse click.

Shared Website Hosting - Weaknesses

A drawback of the shared website hosting environment is that the web hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot install new software applications. Specific sites, particularly online storefronts, need software applications to be installed on the web hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can install only software applications that do not demand root-level access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For online portals that need root-level access, or if your web site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of viewers per day, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A VPS is a software emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it behaves in exactly the same way.

Virtual Private Web Servers

Both environments usually offer full server root privileges and can be restarted through a software tool by the client, autonomously from the web hosting company. Similar to the shared web hosting plans, the VPS hosting and the dedicated server plans have diverse functionalities based on what the hosting vendor has to offer. A private virtual web hosting server package has guaranteed data storage, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be enhanced for brief stretches of time provided that there are available system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A VPS server is easier to run as it involves a virtualization platform, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, monitor statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more elaborate, so such an account would rather be utilized by proficient clients.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, given hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they carry out server administration procedures instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an additional service.

Prior To Deciding...

Picking the top hosting package is vital as it can affect the proper work of a web site. Before selecting a plan, weigh the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the requirements for the website to perform properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still not sure which one is the best web 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.