Quality Shared Hosting

There are different sorts of shared hosting services appropriate for different web portals in terms of the system resources or the shared hosting environment they demand. To choose the most adequate shared hosting service for your site, you have to judge what server-side software it needs, how many visits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be answered.

Shared website hosting - Positive Signs

The most optimal choice for small sized websites with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this form of web hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which diminishes the total cost per customer radically. There are various web hosting plans differing from one hosting company to another, providing different amounts of web storage and traffic, different e-mailbox account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can purchase a plan that will include the resources your web site indeed needs. You will not need to pay lots of cash for a plan you will not utilize, or wind up with a small sized account that cannot shelter the web site. We, at handhonline.co.uk, offer a big collection of shared hosting accounts suitable for personal or small business web pages that even include pre-installed script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you kick off with a low priced plan and you need more system resources, upgrading to a more advanced package demands only a mouse click.

Shared website hosting - Negative Points

A drawback of the shared web hosting solution is that the hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot install additional software applications. Certain web sites, chiefly online shops, need applications to be available on the web server for them to operate, and with a shared website hosting environment, you can install only software applications that do not request complete root-level access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For web portals that need root-level access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of daily viewers, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. A virtual server is a software simulation of a dedicated hosting server and it behaves in a strictly identical way.

Private Virtual Servers

Both services commonly provide full root access and can be restarted through a software platform by the customer, independently from the hosting supplier. Similar to the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS hosting and the dedicated server hosting plans contain diverse functionalities based on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A virtual web server hosting package offers guaranteed web space, RAM and CPU quotas that can at times be expanded for short periods of time if there are free resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limiting factor is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be configured by altering or adding components. A Virtual Private Server is easier to run as it comes with virtualization software, which can be used to restart it, to install software applications, check stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more complex, so such a package would rather be utilized by trained customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nevertheless, given web hosting firms provide managed dedicated web hosting solutions where they carry out dedicated web hosting server management tasks instead of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional service.

Before You Choose...

Settling on the top hosting plan is important as it can have an effect on the stable functioning of a online portal. Prior to selecting an account, weigh the pros and cons, study completely all the prerequisites for the web page to perform properly, especially if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which one is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.