Top Web Hosting

There are different types of web hosting plans suitable for different sites in relation to the resources or the web hosting environment they require. To select the most suitable web hosting service for your online portal, you need to reckon what server-side software applications it needs, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special demands that may need to be covered.

Shared Website Hosting - Assets

The most optimal alternative for small web sites with a few hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting package. With this form of site hosting, each user pays only for their account, which reduces the total price per individual substantially. There are different web hosting packages varying from one web host to another, delivering different amounts of disk storage space and monthly bandwidth, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can order a plan that will offer the resources your web site really needs. You will not have to pay plenty of money for a package you will not use, or wind up with a small size plan that cannot shelter the web site. We, at ARTIC, offer a large selection of web hosting plans suitable for private or small business sites that even come with pre-installed script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you commence with a low-end account and you need more features, moving to a more feature-rich account requires just a click.

Shared web hosting - Disadvantages

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting solution is that the web servers have some software platforms installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Given web sites, chiefly web stores, need software applications to be available on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can install only software programs that do not demand root access.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For websites that request root access, or if your online portal has many thousands or even millions of hits per day, what you require is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A VPS web server is a software emulation of a dedicated server and it works in exactly the same way.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both services typically come with full root privileges and can be rebooted via a software tool by the customer, independently from the web hosting provider. Similar to the shared web hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting server plans involve different specifications depending on what the hosting provider has to offer. A virtual private web server hosting package has guaranteed disk space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can at times be enhanced for short intervals of time on condition that there are unused system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware it is utilizing, and it can be upgraded by changing or appending components. A VPS hosting server is simpler to handle as it ships with a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to restart it, to install applications, check statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web server is more complicated, so such a plan would rather be used by skilled users.

Dedicated Servers

Still, certain web hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they complete dedicated server administration operations on behalf of the client. This can be included in the package or an extra service.

Prior To Reaching a Decision...

Picking the top hosting package is vital as it can affect the stable work of a web site. Before settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, survey completely all the prerequisites for the web portal to work properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which is the best web hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.