Which hosting package will suit me best?

There are different types of web hosting services suitable for different sites when it comes to the system resources or the hosting environment they demand. To pick the best hosting service for your website, you need to evaluate what server-side software applications it requires, how many daily visits you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be covered.

Shared Hosting - Assets

The most appropriate choice for small scale websites with several hundred or webspace hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which reduces the overall cost per client radically. There are different web hosting solutions differing from one hosting firm to another, delivering different amounts of disk storage space and bandwidth, different e-mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can buy an account that will provide the specifications your web site in fact needs. You will not have to pay a lot of money for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small size account that cannot host the web portal. At Rai Hosting, there is a wide collection of shared hosting solutions suitable for private or small business web sites that even provide pre-activated script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you commence with a low priced plan and you require more resources, moving to a high-end package demands just a click of the mouse.

Shared Hosting - Inconveniences

A drawback of the shared web hosting solution is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot install additional software. Specific web sites, chiefly web storefronts, request software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting solution, you can install only software that does not require server root access.

VPSs and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For portals that request full server root access, or if your site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of viewers per day, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A private virtual web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated server and it performs in an absolutely identical manner.

VPS Web Hosting Servers

Both environments typically include full root privileges and can be restarted via a software interface by the customer, independently from the web hosting supplier. Just like the shared web space hosting packages, the VPS web hosting server and the dedicated server packages comprise diverse specifications depending on what the web hosting vendor has to offer. A VPS server web hosting package includes guaranteed storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be enhanced for brief intervals of time in case there are unused system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limit is the hardware it is making use of, and it can be revved up by altering or appending components. A virtual private web server is easier to administer as it involves a virtualization software platform, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, monitor statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated server is more intricate, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by experienced customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Yet, given web hosts provide managed dedicated server web hosting services where they execute server management procedures on behalf of the client. This can be a part of plan or an additional feature.

Before You Select...

Picking the top hosting package is crucial as it can have an effect on the proper work of a web portal. Before settling on an account, compare the pros and cons, survey completely all the prerequisites for the web portal to run properly, especially if it is script-powered, and, one more thing, if you have already picked a web hosting firm, the best you could do would be to ask their support staff for an opinion as to which particular plan would be best for the stable performance of your website.