Best Shared Hosting

There are various kinds of shared hosting services appropriate for different sites in relation to the system resources or the shared hosting environment they require. To pick the most suitable shared hosting service for your website, you have to calculate what server-side software applications it demands, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be met.

Shared website hosting - Benefits

The most optimal alternative for small size web pages with several hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting package. With this type of web hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which reduces the overall price per customer radically. There are various web hosting plans differing from one hosting firm to another, delivering different quotas of disk storage space and bandwidth, different electronic mail account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can order a package that will offer the resources your web site in fact needs. You will not need to pay plenty of cash for a package you will not utilize, or wind up with a small account that cannot accommodate the online portal. We, at H2NWeb, offer a great collection of shared hosting accounts appropriate for personal or small business sites that even come with pre-installed script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you begin with a cheaper plan and you require more resources, upgrading to a more advanced package demands just a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Negative Signs

A drawback of the shared web hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate new software. Some websites, especially online storefronts, request software applications to be available on the server for them to function, and with a shared website hosting environment, you can install solely software applications that do not request full server root access.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For portals that need full root-level access, or if your site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of hits per day, what you need is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A virtual web hosting server is a software simulation of a dedicated machine and it behaves in exactly the same manner.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers

Both services typically come with complete root access and can be rebooted through a software tool by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Similar to the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web hosting packages have diverse specs depending on what the web hosting supplier offers. A VPS web hosting package has guaranteed storage space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can occasionally be enhanced for brief spells of time in case there are free system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limiting factor is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be configured by changing or appending components. A virtual private web hosting server is easier to tackle as it comprises a virtualization software platform, which can be utilized to restart it, to install applications, check stats, etc. The management of a dedicated server is more complex, so such an account would rather be used by trained clients.

Dedicated Servers

However, certain web hosting firms offer managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they complete web server administration operations instead of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional service.

Before You Opt...

Picking the top hosting package is essential as it can have an influence on the proper performance of a web portal. Before picking an account, weigh the pros and cons, review carefully all the requirements for the website to work properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which one is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.