Quality Shared Web Hosting

There are different types of shared web hosting plans suitable for different sites in terms of the system resources or the shared web hosting platform they demand. To select the most proper shared web hosting service for your website, you must access what server-side software it requires, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may have to be fulfilled.

Shared Web Hosting - Dividends

The best choice for small size sites with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this type of web hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which reduces the overall price per individual substantially. There are different web hosting plans differing from one hosting company to another, furnishing different quotas of web space and monthly traffic, different electronic mail account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can order a plan that will offer the specs your website really requires. You will not have to pay a lot of cash for a plan you will not use, or end up with a small size plan that cannot accommodate the website. We, at HostFlex, offer a great variety of shared web hosting accounts suitable for private or small business web portals that even offer pre-activated script-powered platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you commence with a low-cost plan and you require more system resources, upgrading to a more feature-rich plan requires just a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Minuses

A shortcoming of the shared website hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot install additional software platforms. Certain sites, particularly online stores, require software applications to be installed on the hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting package, you can install only software platforms that do not need server root access.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For online portals that demand server root access, or if your web site has many 1000's or even millions of daily hits, what you need is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated server web hosting. A virtual private web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web server and it acts in exactly the same manner.

VPS Web Servers

Both solutions typically come with full root privileges and can be rebooted via a software program by the user, independently from the hosting company. Much like the shared web hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated server accounts sport diverse specifications depending on what the web hosting vendor offers. A private virtual server web hosting account contains guaranteed web storage, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can at times be expanded for short periods of time in case there are spare resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limitation is the hardware configuration it is utilizing, and it can be revved up by altering or adding components. A virtual web hosting server is easier to cope with as it comes with a virtualization tool, which can be used to reboot it, to install applications, monitor stats, and so on. The management of a dedicated server is more elaborate, so such a solution would rather be used by proficient customers.

Dedicated Servers

Yet, given web hosting corporations offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they perform web hosting server management operations instead of the client. This can be included in the package or an additional service.

Before You Choose...

Settling on the top hosting plan is essential as it can affect the stable work of a site. Before selecting a plan, compare the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the prerequisites for the online portal to function properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best shared web hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.