Top Hosting

There are various varieties of hosting solutions suitable for different websites in relation to the resources or the hosting environment they need. To pick the most adequate hosting service for your online portal, you must estimate what server-side software programs it requires, how many visits per day you anticipate at the start and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be fulfilled.

Shared website hosting - Upsides

The most relevant option for small scale web portals with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting package. With this form of web hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which decreases the overall cost per customer radically. There are diverse web hosting plans varying from one hosting vendor to another, providing different quotas of web storage and monthly bandwidth, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can buy an account that will have the specs your site in fact demands. You will not need to pay a lot of money for an account you will not avail of, or wind up with a small plan that cannot host the online portal. We, at EXTEC, offer an enormous array of hosting packages suitable for private or small business pages that even offer pre-installed script-based platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you begin with a basic package and you demand more functionalities, moving to a better account requires just a click.

Shared website hosting - Disadvantages

A negative aspect of the shared web hosting environment is that the servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate new software applications. Certain web pages, especially web shops, need software applications to be available on the web hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared website hosting environment, you can activate only software platforms that do not demand full root access.

Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web pages that require root-level access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of daily visits, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a software simulation of a dedicated hosting server and it behaves in exactly the same way.

Virtual Hosting Servers

Both platforms typically offer root access and can be restarted via a software platform by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Akin to the shared web hosting accounts, the VPS and the dedicated server packages come with different specifications depending on what the hosting provider has to offer. A private virtual server plan offers guaranteed hard disk storage, RAM and CPU quotas that can at times be extended for short stretches of time provided that there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be revved up by altering or adding components. A VPS web server is easier to manage as it comprises virtualization software, which can be used to restart it, to install software applications, check statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more intricate, so such a package would rather be utilized by practiced clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nonetheless, given web hosting vendors offer managed dedicated server hosting services where they execute web server administration procedures on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an extra option.

Prior To Deciding...

Choosing the top hosting package is important as it can have an effect on the proper performance of a web portal. Before settling on a plan, compare the pros and cons, check thoroughly all the requirements for the website to operate properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still not sure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.