Which site hosting account will be best for me?

There are different sorts of web hosting solutions suitable for different web portals in relation to the system resources or the web hosting environment they need. To choose the most adequate hosting service for your web portal, you need to calculate what server-side software programs it requires, how many daily hits you anticipate at the start and in the long run, as well as any other specific demands that may need to be covered.

Shared Web Hosting - Dividends

The most appropriate option for small size sites with several hundred or a few, each client pays only for their account, which minimizes the overall cost per user drastically. There are various web hosting solutions varying from one company to another, supplying different quotas of data storage space and monthly bandwidth, different e-mail box account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can get a package that will provide the features your website in fact requires. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not avail of, or wind up with a small scale package that cannot host the site. At SAHAKA Hosting, there is a vast assortment of shared hosting packages appropriate for personal or small business sites that even come with pre-installed script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you begin with a less powerful account and you need more features, upgrading to a more powerful plan requires just a click of the mouse.

Shared Website Hosting - Negative Sides

A downside of the shared web page hosting solution is that the web hosting servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to install additional software. Given web pages, mainly web shops, need software applications to be present on the server for them to work, and with a shared web site hosting environment, you can install only software programs that do not request root access.

Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For online portals that need root-level access, or if your web page has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily visitors, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated machine and it runs in an absolutely identical way.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers

Both services usually offer complete server root access and can be rebooted through a software interface by the user, autonomously from the web hosting provider. Akin to the shared site hosting packages, the VPS web hosting server and the dedicated server hosting plans involve diverse specifications based on what the hosting provider offers. A VPS web server hosting account has guaranteed hard disk storage, random access memory and CPU quotas that can sometimes be expanded for short spells of time provided that there are unused system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limitation is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be configured by altering or adding components. A virtual hosting server is easier to cope with as it involves virtualization software, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web server is more elaborate, so such a solution would rather be used by skilled users.

Dedicated Servers

Nevertheless, given hosting providers provide managed dedicated web hosting services where they implement web hosting server administration operations on behalf of the client. This can be a part of package or an extra feature.

Prior To Electing...

Opting for the top hosting plan is vital as it can affect the stable operation of a online portal. Before opting for an account, weigh the pros and cons, explore carefully all the prerequisites for the site to work properly, particularly if it is script-driven, and, one more thing, if you have already picked a hosting vendor, the best choice would be to ask their client support staff for advice as to which plan exactly would be best for the proper work of your web portal.