Quality Web Hosting

There are different types of web hosting plans appropriate for different sites with regard to the system resources or the web hosting environment they require. To select the most optimal web hosting service for your online portal, you need to estimate what server-side software applications it demands, how many visits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may have to be satisfied.

Shared web hosting - Virtues

The best alternative for small scale web pages with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this form of website hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which lowers the total cost per client critically. There are different web hosting plans differing from one hosting firm to another, providing different amounts of data storage and bandwidth, different e-mail quotas and so on. The good point is that you can order an account that will offer the features your website really demands. You will not need to pay a lot of cash for a plan you will not utilize, or end up with a small size package that cannot accommodate the site. We, at PickMweb, offer a great variety of web hosting solutions appropriate for personal or small business web pages that even offer pre-activated script-driven systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you kick off with a low grade package and you need more system resources, moving to a high-end account requires just a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Hosting - Weaknesses

A negative side of the shared web hosting platform is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot activate new software applications. Certain web portals, above all web stores, request applications to be installed on the hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting solution, you can install only software platforms that do not demand complete root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For sites that need server root access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of daily viewers, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A private virtual hosting server is a software simulation of a dedicated server and it operates in absolutely the same manner.

VPS Web Hosting Servers

Both environments normally give full root access and can be restarted via a software platform by the client, independently from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared web hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated server plans contain different specifications depending on what the hosting supplier offers. A virtual web server hosting plan includes guaranteed disk storage, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be enhanced for brief stretches of time provided that there are free system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limit is the hardware it is using, and it can be revamped by altering or appending components. A virtual private hosting server is simpler to manage as it arrives with a virtualization console, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, explore stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more elaborate, so such a package would rather be used by proficient customers.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

However, some hosting providers provide managed dedicated server hosting services where they carry out dedicated web server administration assignments instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an additional option.

Prior To Reaching a Decision...

Opting for the top hosting plan is important as it can affect the proper work of a web site. Before selecting an account, compare the pros and cons, examine completely all the requirements for the site to run properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best web hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.