Best Shared Web Hosting

There are different types of shared web hosting packages appropriate for different web pages in terms of the resources or the shared web hosting environment they need. To select the most appropriate shared web hosting service for your website, you must evaluate what server-side software programs it demands, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may have to be satisfied.

Shared web hosting - Positive Sides

The best option for small size web portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting package. With this form of site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which reduces the overall price per individual radically. There are various web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting company to another, furnishing different quotas of web space and traffic, different mail quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can order an account that will have the specifications your site in fact needs. You will not have to pay lots of money for a plan you will not utilize, or wind up with a small package that cannot host the site. We, at Cheap Domain and Hosting, offer a large collection of shared web hosting solutions appropriate for private or small business web sites that even provide pre-installed script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you kick off with a low priced plan and you demand more resources, upgrading to a more advanced account demands only a click.

Shared Hosting - Negative Signs

A negative aspect of the shared website hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software platforms installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Given websites, mainly web stores, request applications to be available on the server for them to run, and with a shared web hosting plan, you can install solely software applications that do not require full root access.

Private Virtual Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web sites that require full server root access, or if your site has many 1000's or even millions of daily visitors, what you require is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated server web hosting. A VPS web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it functions in an absolutely identical way.

Private Virtual Web Servers

Both solutions generally provide full root-level access and can be rebooted through a software program by the user, independently from the hosting provider. Akin to the shared web hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web hosting server plans have different specifications depending on what the web hosting company offers. A Virtual Private Server web hosting plan has guaranteed web space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can sometimes be increased for short periods of time if there are spare system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is using, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A VPS server is simpler to handle as it includes a virtualization tool, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, check statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complicated, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by competent clients.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Yet, given hosting vendors offer managed dedicated hosting solutions where they carry out dedicated hosting server administration operations instead of the client. This can be a part of plan or an extra service.

Before You Select...

Settling on the top hosting plan is important as it can affect the proper operation of a web portal. Before choosing an account, compare the pros and cons, examine carefully all the preconditions for the online portal to perform properly, especially if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which one is the best shared web hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.