Best Shared Hosting

There are various types of shared hosting services suitable for different web sites in regard to the resources or the shared hosting environment they demand. To select the most appropriate shared hosting service for your web page, you must calculate what server-side software it requires, how many daily visits you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be satisfied.

Shared Web Hosting - Upsides

The most relevant option for small size web pages with several hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this form of web site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which minimizes the total cost per user critically. There are various web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting supplier to another, delivering different amounts of hard disk storage space and web traffic, different email account quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can pay for a plan that will have the resources your web site indeed needs. You will not need to pay plenty of money for a package you will not make use of, or end up with a small sized account that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at SCI-SERVERS, offer a great choice of shared hosting plans suitable for private or small business web pages that even offer pre-activated script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you kick off with a low priced account and you need more system resources, upgrading to a more powerful account involves just a click of the mouse.

Shared web hosting - Negative Points

A downside of the shared hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software platforms. Certain websites, above all online storefronts, demand applications to be available on the server for them to operate, and with a shared hosting environment, you can activate only software that does not need server root access.

Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web portals that request complete root 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 virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A Virtual Private Server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated machine and it behaves in exactly the same manner.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

Both environments traditionally provide root access and can be restarted via a software tool by the customer, autonomously from the hosting company. Analogous to the shared website hosting plans, the virtual private servers and the dedicated web hosting server accounts comprise different features based on what the hosting company offers. A Virtual Private Server plan includes guaranteed server storage, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be boosted for brief intervals of time in case there are available resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is using, and it can be revved up by altering or appending components. A private virtual server is simpler to cope with as it offers a virtualization console, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, examine statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more complicated, so such a solution would rather be used by knowledgeable clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, some web hosting suppliers offer managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they implement dedicated web server management operations instead of the client. This can be included in the package or an extra option.

Before You Decide...

Settling on the top hosting package is crucial as it can affect the stable functioning of a online portal. Prior to opting for a package, weigh the pros and cons, check carefully all the requirements for the web page to perform properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still not sure which is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.