Which site hosting plan will be best for me?

There are different varieties of web hosting plans suitable for different websites when it comes to the resources or the website hosting environment they demand. To choose the most optimal hosting service for your website, you must access what server-side software it demands, how many hits per day you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other special demands that may have to be satisfied.

Shared Website Hosting - Benefits

The most appropriate option for small size websites with a few hundred or webspace hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which diminishes the total cost per person radically. There are diverse web hosting solutions differing from one company to another, offering different quotas of data storage and traffic, different mail address account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can pay for a plan that will offer the resources your web site in fact demands. You will not have to pay a lot of cash for a package you will not utilize, or end up with a small package that cannot shelter the web portal. At BitLife Host, there is an enormous collection of shared hosting packages suitable for private or small business portals that even include pre-activated script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it simpler. If you start with a low grade package and you demand more system resources, upgrading to a more feature-rich account involves only a mouse click.

Shared Web Page Hosting - Weak Sides

A drawback of the shared web hosting solution is that the web hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install additional software. Certain web portals, above all web stores, require software applications to be available on the hosting server for them to function, and with a shared webspace hosting platform, you can activate only software programs that do not demand full root access.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web pages that need full root-level access, or if your web page has many 1000's or even millions of hits per day, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated server and it functions in precisely the same way.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

Both solutions usually include full root access and can be restarted through a software tool by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared site hosting packages, the private virtual hosting server and the dedicated server packages come with different characteristics depending on what the hosting vendor offers. A VPS server web hosting package contains guaranteed server storage, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be extended for brief spans of time provided that there are free resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A virtual private web server is easier to tackle as it arrives with a virtualization tool, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor stats, and so on. The management of a dedicated web server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be utilized by competent users.

Dedicated Servers

Nevertheless, given web hosting suppliers offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they carry out dedicated server administration assignments on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional feature.

Prior To Opting...

Selecting the top hosting package is crucial as it can influence the stable performance of a web page. Before settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, explore carefully all the requirements for the site to run properly, especially if it is script-based, and, one more thing, if you have already settled on a web host, the best choice would be to ask their customer support staff for advice as to which particular plan would be best for the proper performance of your site.