Quality Shared Hosting

There are different varieties of shared hosting solutions appropriate for different websites when it comes to the system resources or the shared hosting environment they need. To choose the most suitable shared hosting service for your website, you have to judge what server-side software it requires, how many visits per day you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be answered.

Shared Website Hosting - Positive Points

The most appropriate option for small websites with several hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this type of web hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which diminishes the overall cost per person noticeably. There are diverse web hosting accounts differing from one hosting provider to another, providing different quotas of data storage space and bandwidth, different email mailbox account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can get a plan that will have the specs your web page actually requires. You will not have to pay lots of cash for a plan you will not avail of, or wind up with a small size package that cannot host the web site. We, at Rick Hosting, offer a great selection of shared hosting solutions appropriate for private or small business web portals that even offer pre-installed script-based systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you commence with a low grade plan and you demand more functionalities, moving to a more powerful account takes only a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Hosting - Negative Aspects

A weakness of the shared website hosting solution is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install new software. Given web portals, above all web storefronts, need software applications to be activated on the web server for them to operate, and with a shared web hosting platform, you can activate only software programs that do not require complete root access.

VPS Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For websites that need full root-level access, or if your site has many thousands or even millions of visitors per day, what you need is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A VPS web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated machine and it performs in exactly the same way.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both platforms commonly come with complete root-level access and can be restarted through a software interface by the user, independently from the hosting company. Like the shared web hosting packages, the virtual private servers and the dedicated hosting server plans contain different specifications based on what the hosting supplier has to offer. A private virtual server web hosting account includes guaranteed hard disk storage, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be enlarged for brief stretches of time provided that there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware architecture it is utilizing, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A virtual server is easier to tackle as it arrives with a virtualization panel, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, explore stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more elaborate, so such an account would rather be utilized by knowledgeable customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, given providers offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they implement dedicated server management assignments on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the package or an additional service.

Before You Choose...

Settling on the top hosting plan is crucial as it can have an influence on the proper operation of a site. Prior to selecting a package, weigh the pros and cons, appraise carefully all the prerequisites for the online portal to perform properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still unsure which is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.