Best Shared Hosting

There are different varieties of shared hosting plans appropriate for different web pages with regard to the system resources or the shared hosting environment they need. To select the most suitable shared hosting service for your online portal, you must calculate what server-side software applications it needs, how many hits per day you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be satisfied.

Shared Website Hosting - Dividends

The most relevant option for small web portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this form of site hosting, each client pays only for their account, which diminishes the overall price per client markedly. There are different web hosting plans differing from one web hosting firm to another, providing different amounts of hard disk storage and monthly traffic, different e-mail address account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can buy an account that will provide the features your online portal indeed needs. You will not need to pay plenty of money for a plan you will not make use of, or end up with a small package that cannot host the site. We, at IEM SMART SOLUTION HOSTING, offer a great array of shared hosting plans suitable for personal or small business web portals that even offer pre-activated script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you begin with a low-end package and you need more features, moving to a high-end account requires only a click.

Shared Website Hosting - Negative Aspects

A negative aspect of the shared website hosting platform is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate new software programs. Some websites, above all web shops, demand applications to be present on the web server for them to function, and with a shared website hosting environment, you can install only software that does not demand root access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web sites that need root-level access, or if your web page has many 1000's or even millions of daily viewers, what you need is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A virtual web server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated server and it performs in an absolutely identical way.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers

Both solutions generally include full server root privileges and can be rebooted via a software interface by the client, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Much like the shared web hosting plans, the virtual private servers and the dedicated server plans sport diverse characteristics depending on what the hosting company offers. A VPS server web hosting plan contains guaranteed hard disk storage, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be enlarged for brief periods of time if there are spare system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is making use of, and it can be configured by altering or appending components. A virtual hosting server is simpler to run as it comes with a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, explore statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated server is more complex, so such a package would rather be utilized by skilled customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Nonetheless, certain hosting firms offer managed dedicated web hosting solutions where they implement hosting server management tasks instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional option.

Before You Decide...

Picking the top hosting plan is crucial as it can affect the proper functioning of a web site. Prior to choosing an account, weigh the pros and cons, appraise completely all the prerequisites for the website to run properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which is the best shared hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.