Quality Website Hosting

There are different varieties of website hosting packages appropriate for different web pages when it comes to the system resources or the website hosting environment they demand. To select the most suitable website hosting service for your online portal, you must reckon what server-side software programs it demands, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be satisfied.

Shared web hosting - Good Points

The most appropriate alternative for small scale websites with several hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this form of web space hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which minimizes the total cost per person drastically. There are different web hosting plans differing from one web host to another, delivering different amounts of disk storage and monthly bandwidth, different mail address account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can get a plan that will include the resources your site indeed requires. 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 plan that cannot host the website. We, at MassGlobal, offer an extensive collection of website hosting packages appropriate for personal or small business pages that even include pre-installed script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you kick off with a low grade package and you require more functionalities, upgrading to a more advanced package takes only a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Disadvantages

A downside of the shared hosting solution is that the servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to install new software. Certain online portals, particularly online stores, demand software applications to be present on the server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting platform, you can install only software that does not require full root access.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For web sites that request complete root access, or if your web page has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of hits per day, what you demand is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A private virtual web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it runs in a precisely identical way.

Virtual Web Servers

Both platforms normally come with full root access and can be restarted through a software tool by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Much like the shared hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web server packages include different specifications depending on what the web hosting supplier offers. A virtual web server hosting plan has guaranteed disk storage, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be enhanced for short stretches of time if there are free resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limitation is the hardware equipment it is using, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A virtual server is simpler to tackle as it arrives with virtualization software, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, check stats, and so on. The management of a dedicated web server is more elaborate, so such a plan would rather be used by experienced clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Still, certain companies provide managed dedicated web server hosting services where they run dedicated web hosting server administration operations on behalf of the client. This can be included in the package or an extra upgrade.

Before You Decide...

Opting for the top hosting package is vital as it can affect the stable performance of a web portal. Prior to opting for a package, compare the pros and cons, study completely all the prerequisites for the web page to work properly, especially if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which is the best website 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.