Which website hosting plan will suit me best?

There are various kinds of web hosting services suitable for different sites in regard to the system resources or the hosting environment they need. To pick the most adequate hosting service for your web site, you must judge what server-side software it needs, how many daily visits you expect at the start and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may have to be fulfilled.

Shared Web Page Hosting - Strong Sides

The most proper option for small web portals with several hundred or sng, each customer pays only for their account, which diminishes the overall price per client critically. There are various web hosting packages differing from one hosting firm to another, providing different quotas of web space and monthly traffic, different e-mail box account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can buy a package that will provide the resources your website indeed requires. You will not have to pay plenty of cash for a package you will not make use of, or end up with a small size plan that cannot host the web portal. At ICT WebPro Hosting, there is a big selection of shared hosting solutions appropriate for private or small business portals that even provide pre-activated script-driven platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it simpler. If you begin with a low priced plan and you need more functionalities, moving to a more advanced plan demands only a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Weak Sides

A drawback of the shared web site hosting environment is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to install new software. Specific websites, mainly web stores, require software applications to be available on the hosting server for them to run, and with a shared site hosting platform, you can install only software applications that do not require root access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web sites that request root access, or if your web site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A private virtual web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated server and it performs in an absolutely identical manner.

Virtual Private Servers

Both services traditionally include root privileges and can be rebooted via a software interface by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Much like the shared web site hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated web server plans have different functionalities depending on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A virtual private hosting server account has guaranteed hard disk storage, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be increased for brief spans of time provided that there are unused system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware configuration it is making use of, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A VPS web server is easier to manage as it arrives with a virtualization console, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated server is more intricate, so such a solution would rather be used by tech-savvy users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, certain hosting companies provide managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they run dedicated web hosting server management procedures instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an additional option.

Before You Decide...

Picking the top hosting plan is important as it can have an influence on the proper operation of a website. Before selecting a plan, weigh the pros and cons, survey thoroughly all the prerequisites for the website to operate properly, especially if it is script-driven, and, one more thing, if you have already chosen a web hosting corporation, the best choice would be to ask their customer support staff for a recommendation as to which plan exactly would be best for the stable operation of your site.