Top Web Hosting

There are various varieties of web hosting packages suitable for different sites in relation to the resources or the web hosting platform they need. To pick the most adequate web hosting service for your site, you have to calculate what server-side software applications it needs, how many daily visits you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other special requirements that may have to be fulfilled.

Shared Hosting - Virtues

The most optimal choice for small size web sites with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this form of web hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which diminishes the total cost per user drastically. There are various web hosting plans differing from one hosting firm to another, delivering different quotas of storage space and monthly traffic, different email box account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can purchase an account that will have the specs your web site actually requires. You will not need to pay a lot of money for an account you will not avail of, or end up with a small scale account that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at Progress Hosting, offer a great array of web hosting packages appropriate for private or small business pages that even offer pre-installed script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you commence with a low priced package and you need more functionalities, moving to a more advanced account demands only a mouse click.

Shared Website Hosting - Shortcomings

A weak side of the shared web hosting solution is that the servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software programs. Specific sites, mainly web stores, request applications to be present on the hosting server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting platform, you can activate solely software that does not request complete root-level access.

VPS Web Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For portals that demand full root-level access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of hits per day, what you need is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A VPS server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated solution and it works in an exactly identical manner.

VPS Web Hosting Servers

Both services typically come with root privileges and can be restarted through a software interface by the user, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared web hosting plans, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web server packages come with diverse functionalities based on what the web hosting provider offers. A VPS server hosting package offers guaranteed storage space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be enlarged for short stretches of time if there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A virtual server is simpler to handle as it ships with a virtualization platform, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, monitor stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web server is more complicated, so such a package would rather be utilized by competent clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, certain hosting companies provide managed dedicated hosting solutions where they carry out web server management procedures instead of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional option.

Prior To Electing...

Picking the top hosting package is crucial as it can influence the proper work of a web site. Prior to picking a package, weigh the pros and cons, review completely all the requirements for the web portal to run properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best web hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.