Quality Hosting

There are different kinds of hosting services suitable for different web pages in regard to the resources or the hosting environment they demand. To choose the most relevant hosting service for your online portal, you need to judge what server-side software applications it demands, how many daily visits you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be covered.

Shared Website Hosting - Pluses

The most optimal alternative for small size web pages with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this type of hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which reduces the overall price per customer radically. There are different web hosting packages varying from one web hosting firm to another, furnishing different quotas of disk storage and web traffic, different e-mail address account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can order an account that will have the features your website indeed needs. You will not have to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not use, or wind up with a small scale package that cannot shelter the site. We, at City Portal, offer an enormous array of hosting packages appropriate for personal or small business websites that even offer pre-activated script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you kick off with a cheaper account and you require more system resources, moving to a more powerful package involves just a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Minuses

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting platform is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot install additional software platforms. Given sites, particularly web storefronts, demand applications to be present on the server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting plan, you can install only software applications that do not request server root access.

VPS Web Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web portals that need root access, or if your portal has many thousands or even millions of visitors per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated package. A VPS web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated machine and it performs in exactly the same way.

Virtual Servers

Both environments usually include full server root privileges and can be restarted through a software interface by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Just like the shared web hosting plans, the VPS and the dedicated hosting plans come with diverse characteristics depending on what the hosting vendor offers. A virtual private hosting server plan includes guaranteed storage space, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can occasionally be enhanced for short stretches of time on condition that there are unused system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is availing of, and it can be upgraded by altering or appending components. A virtual web server is simpler to manipulate as it includes a virtualization tool, which can be utilized to restart it, to install applications, examine statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be used by experienced clients.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Yet, given web hosting companies provide managed dedicated web server hosting services where they run dedicated server administration tasks on behalf of the client. This can be a part of plan or an extra option.

Prior To Choosing...

Settling on the top hosting plan is vital as it can have an influence on the stable operation of a web portal. Before picking a package, weigh the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the requirements for the web page to operate properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still not sure which is the best hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.