Top Hosting

There are different types of hosting services suitable for different web pages in terms of the system resources or the hosting environment they need. To choose the best hosting service for your web portal, you have to evaluate what server-side software programs it demands, how many daily visits you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other specific demands that may have to be answered.

Shared website hosting - Advantages

The most proper choice for small online portals with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting package. With this form of web site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which lowers the overall price per person critically. There are various web hosting accounts varying from one hosting company to another, providing different amounts of web storage and traffic, different e-mail quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can pay for an account that will provide the specs your web site indeed requires. You will not have to pay lots of money for a package you will not utilize, or wind up with a small sized plan that cannot shelter the online portal. We, at eTesLa Technologies, offer an enormous choice of hosting solutions appropriate for personal or small business web portals that even include pre-activated script-driven systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it simpler. If you commence with a low-cost plan and you need more resources, upgrading to a more advanced account requires only a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Negative Sides

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting solution is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot activate new software programs. Specific websites, particularly web stores, demand software applications to be available on the server for them to operate, and with a shared website hosting environment, you can activate solely software platforms that do not require complete root access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For portals that request complete root-level access, or if your online portal has many thousands or even millions of viewers per day, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated server. A Virtual Private Server is a software emulation of a dedicated machine and it behaves in absolutely the same manner.

Private Virtual Web Servers

Both environments traditionally come with full root privileges and can be restarted via a software platform by the client, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated hosting packages come with different features based on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A VPS server package contains guaranteed hard disk storage, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be enlarged for short intervals of time provided that there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is using, and it can be upgraded by changing or appending components. A VPS server is easier to tackle as it includes a virtualization software platform, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, monitor stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complex, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by qualified users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nonetheless, some hosts provide managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they perform dedicated web server management assignments on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of package or an extra service.

Prior To Reaching a Decision...

Selecting the top hosting plan is important as it can affect the proper work of a web site. Prior to opting for a plan, weigh the pros and cons, investigate thoroughly all the requirements for the site to work properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still unsure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.