Hosting Packages Description

Hosting is a service that hosting distributors offer so that you can put your web site online.

How can people observe your website?

When you develop a web site and you wish other persons to spot it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a server. If you attempt to render the web site reachable on the Internet by hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does hosting work?

Hosting suppliers offer you hard drive storage space for your web site on their high-end computers (hosting servers) and guarantee constant website availability. When someone writes your web address (e.g. www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web hosting server where they can examine the content of your web site.

Hosting varieties

With the advancement of Internet technologies, several types of web hosting services have come into being to fulfill the various requirements of web site owners, including shared hosting services, virtual web server hosting services and dedicated server web hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared web hosting is the most popular type of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where one single hosting server is divided among many web hosting account owners who are limited by the CPU, web traffic and disk drive space quotas that they have been allocated. This form of website hosting is commonly cheaper - you don't have to pay for the entire web hosting server in advance, as it is divided between many hosting account owners, and the hosting provider can afford to provide much more affordable prices. It is also easier to use - the hosting server is pre-installed with all the required software and the hosting solutions provider handles all server maintenance tasks and security updates on your behalf.

The downside of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the hosting server's resources with other shared web hosting account owners and if a given website becomes very busy it may influence (and slow down) all the other web sites on that hosting server, but most hosting suppliers, including us at City Portal, have security platforms at work that obstruct that from occurring.

A definition of a website hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most popular form of web hosting, the majority of hosting providers and hosting customers simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an enormous competition on the website hosting marketplace, the majority of hosting suppliers try to provide cheap prices and bonuses with their services. We, for instance, provide different website hosting packages and two invoicing options - monthly and yearly, based on your budget. If you choose the annual billing cycle, you will obtain a gift - one charge-free domain name registration.

VPS packages

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your site outgrows the resources offered by your shared website hosting package, a virtual server package is an excellent solution. private virtual server hosting customers still share the hardware resources of the physical server with other private virtual web server hosting account holders, but the physical server is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own dedicated resources and can be configured practically like a full-fledged dedicated hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a VPS are not shared. Furthermore, the virtualization software offers you much more freedom to configure your virtual server, but it also calls for a higher level of technical knowledge.

Dedicated Package

With the Dedicated Package solution, the client gets a whole server and can utilize all its resources. The dedicated server web hosting solution is the most powerful of all website hosting solutions and offers numerous customization possibilities - the dedicated hosting users can select the hardware and software specifications that will match their demands. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated web server hosting package is a perfect choice for a high resource-devouring business web portal, for instance - you will not share the web server's resources with anyone else and will be bestowed with root-level access. You will exert complete authority over the machine, which will enable you to make any configuration changes that you might require. The weak side of the dedicated hosting solution is that a higher degree of technical know-how is needed - unless you engage an Information Technology pro, you will be responsible for managing and configuring the dedicated hosting web server. The dedicated web server hosting solution is also much more high-priced, because the cost of the physical machine isn't shared among any other clients.

A hosting tip for novices

If you are just beginning to set up your web site and are searching for a website hosting solution to begin with, the shared web hosting solution remains the most logical choice. If your website grows beyond your website hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is extremely easy and does not necessitate migration of your web site files, since only the features of your web hosting account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting plan to a more advanced one at any given time without worrying about the number of days remaining until expiration. Besides, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared hosting package and still require more resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it indicates that your site's popularity has increased!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a Virtual Private Server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting web server without the need to swap hosting providers.