Quality Shared Hosting

There are various kinds of shared hosting services suitable for different sites in relation to the system resources or the shared hosting environment they need. To select the most adequate shared hosting service for your web portal, you have to evaluate what server-side software applications it demands, how many visits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific demands that may have to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Dividends

The best option for small online portals with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this type of webspace hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which lowers the overall price per user significantly. There are different web hosting packages varying from one hosting firm to another, offering different quotas of hard disk storage and monthly traffic, different e-mail account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can buy a plan that will have the specifications your web portal indeed needs. You will not have to pay plenty of money for a plan you will not make use of, or end up with a small sized account that cannot host the site. We, at Helios Host, offer a large array of shared hosting packages appropriate for personal or small business web pages that even include pre-activated script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it simpler. If you start with a basic plan and you need more features, upgrading to a better package involves just a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Negative Aspects

A negative aspect of the shared website hosting environment is that the web servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install new software platforms. Specific web pages, chiefly online storefronts, request applications to be activated on the web server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting package, you can install solely software applications that do not request server root access.

VPSs and Dedicated Servers

For online portals that require full root-level access, or if your web portal has many thousands or even millions of daily viewers, what you need is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A private virtual web server is a software simulation of a dedicated server and it performs in an exactly identical way.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both solutions usually offer server root access and can be restarted through a software platform by the user, independently from the web hosting supplier. Akin to the shared web hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web hosting plans include diverse specs based on what the hosting supplier has to offer. A Virtual Private Server hosting package contains guaranteed web storage space, RAM and CPU quotas that can occasionally be enlarged for brief spells of time provided that there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limit is the hardware equipment it is availing of, and it can be upgraded by altering or appending components. A VPS hosting server is easier to manage as it offers a virtualization tool, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, check stats, etc. The management of a dedicated web hosting server is more elaborate, so such a package would rather be utilized by knowledgeable clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, given companies offer managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they implement dedicated web hosting server administration tasks instead of the client. This can be a part of plan or an additional feature.

Prior To Reaching a Decision...

Picking the top hosting plan is essential as it can affect the proper work of a web page. Prior to settling on an account, compare the pros and cons, examine carefully all the preconditions for the web site to run properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.