Quality Web Hosting

There are various types of web hosting packages appropriate for different websites when it comes to the resources or the web hosting platform they need. To choose the most optimal web hosting service for your web site, you must judge what server-side software applications it requires, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special needs that may have to be covered.

Shared website hosting - Strong Points

The most adequate alternative for small scale websites with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this form of site hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which diminishes the total price per user markedly. There are various web hosting accounts differing from one hosting vendor to another, furnishing different quotas of disk space and monthly bandwidth, different e-mail quotas and so on. The good point is that you can get a package that will have the specs your web page actually demands. You will not have to pay lots of cash for an account you will not use, or end up with a small size plan that cannot host the web page. We, at Progress Hosting, offer a great choice of web hosting accounts suitable for private or small business web portals that even provide pre-installed script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you start with a low-end account and you require more features, moving to a better plan demands only a click.

Shared website hosting - Negative Points

A weak side of the shared website hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software platforms. Certain web pages, particularly online stores, request software applications to be present on the hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting solution, you can activate only software programs that do not require root access.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For portals that need root access, or if your web site has many thousands or even millions of hits per day, what you need is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A virtual web server is a software imitation of a dedicated web hosting server and it acts in absolutely the same manner.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers

Both environments usually give full root access and can be rebooted through a software platform by the client, independently from the web hosting company. Analogous to the shared web hosting accounts, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web server plans contain different specifications based on what the hosting company has to offer. A virtual web server hosting account offers guaranteed data space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be enhanced for brief periods of time if there are available resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is making use of, and it can be revamped by altering or appending components. A VPS server is easier to tackle as it includes a virtualization panel, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, examine statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be utilized by knowledgeable customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nevertheless, given web hosting companies offer managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they implement web hosting server management tasks instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an extra upgrade.

Before You Select...

Opting for the top hosting package is essential as it can affect the proper functioning of a site. Before choosing a package, weigh the pros and cons, explore carefully all the preconditions for the website to operate properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best web hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.