Quality Shared Hosting

There are different kinds of shared hosting accounts suitable for different sites in relation to the system resources or the shared hosting environment they need. To select the most suitable shared hosting service for your web page, you have to access what server-side software it requires, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may need to be covered.

Shared Web Hosting - Perquisites

The most proper alternative for small scale online portals with several hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this form of web hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which minimizes the total price per user markedly. There are various web hosting plans differing from one web hosting provider to another, providing different amounts of storage space and traffic, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can pay for a plan that will offer the resources your web portal indeed needs. You will not have to pay lots of money for an account you will not avail of, or wind up with a small sized package that cannot accommodate the web page. We, at BITx, offer an enormous assortment of shared hosting solutions suitable for personal or small business web pages that even include pre-installed script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you start with a cheaper account and you require more functionalities, moving to a high-end plan takes only a mouse click.

Shared website hosting - Weak Points

A negative side of the shared web hosting platform is that the web hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot install new software platforms. Specific online portals, above all online stores, demand software applications to be present on the server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can install solely software applications that do not require server root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For websites that need root-level access, or if your web page has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily visitors, what you need is a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. A Virtual Private Server is a software simulation of a dedicated solution and it operates in an absolutely identical way.

Virtual Private Servers

Both environments commonly come with complete root access and can be restarted via a software interface by the client, independently from the web hosting provider. Akin to the shared website hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web hosting server packages contain different specs based on what the hosting company has to offer. A VPS web hosting package contains guaranteed hard disk space, RAM and CPU quotas that can at times be enlarged for brief spells of time on condition that there are spare resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be revved up by altering or appending components. A VPS server is easier to cope with as it comprises a virtualization tool, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, check statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated web server is more complicated, so such a package would rather be used by tech-savvy customers.

Dedicated Servers

Nevertheless, some hosting companies provide managed dedicated hosting solutions where they implement dedicated hosting server management assignments on behalf of the client. This can be included in the plan or an extra upgrade.

Before You Elect...

Opting for the top hosting plan is vital as it can influence the proper operation of a web site. Prior to selecting an account, weigh the pros and cons, review thoroughly all the requirements for the web site to work properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.