Quality Hosting

There are various varieties of hosting packages suitable for different web sites with regard to the system resources or the hosting platform they require. To pick the most optimal hosting service for your web site, you need to calculate what server-side software applications it demands, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific requirements that may have to be fulfilled.

Shared website hosting - Advantages

The most adequate choice for small size websites with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this type of web space hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which minimizes the overall price per customer considerably. There are diverse web hosting plans differing from one web hosting supplier to another, furnishing different amounts of data storage and bandwidth, different e-mail address account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can pay for an account that will have the specs your site in fact requires. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a package you will not make use of, or wind up with a small account that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at k9 Web Hosting, offer an extensive collection of hosting packages suitable for private or small business portals that even include pre-activated script-driven systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you kick off with a low grade package and you require more system resources, moving to a more feature-rich plan requires just a mouse click.

Shared website hosting - Weaknesses

A drawback of the shared web hosting platform is that the web servers have some software programs installed on them and you are unable to install new software programs. Some websites, particularly web shops, need software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared hosting account, you can activate only software platforms that do not demand root-level access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

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

Virtual Hosting Servers

Both environments usually provide full server root access and can be restarted through a software tool by the customer, independently from the hosting supplier. Like the shared web hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated web server plans contain different characteristics based on what the web hosting provider has to offer. A private virtual server package offers guaranteed hard disk storage space, RAM and CPU quotas that can at times be enlarged for short stretches of time in case there are unused system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is making use of, and it can be revved up by changing or adding components. A VPS web hosting server is easier to handle as it includes a virtualization platform, which can be used to reboot it, to install applications, examine statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complex, so such a plan would rather be utilized by practiced clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nonetheless, some providers offer managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they implement server management procedures on behalf of the client. This can be included in the plan or an extra option.

Prior To Reaching a Decision...

Settling on the top hosting package is vital as it can have an influence on the proper performance of a web site. Before settling on an account, weigh the pros and cons, review completely all the preconditions for the online portal to perform properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.