Which webspace hosting plan will be best for me?

There are various types of web hosting plans suitable for different websites in terms of the resources or the website hosting environment they require. To pick the best hosting service for your web site, you need to reckon what server-side software it demands, how many visits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special demands that may have to be answered.

Shared Web Site Hosting - Perquisites

The most adequate alternative for small online portals with a few hundred or site hosting, each client pays only for their account, which minimizes the total price per user radically. There are various web hosting solutions differing from one web host to another, providing different amounts of disk space and traffic, different email box account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can get a plan that will offer the features your website in fact requires. You will not need to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not utilize, or wind up with a small size plan that cannot accommodate the web page. At LiquidNet Ltd Hosting, there is a wide assortment of shared hosting packages suitable for private or small business websites that even come with pre-activated script-driven systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you commence with a low priced package and you require more resources, moving to a more powerful plan requires only a mouse click.

Shared Webspace Hosting - Inconveniences

A drawback of the shared web page hosting platform is that the web hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software. Some websites, mainly online storefronts, require applications to be available on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared website hosting solution, you can activate only software that does not request server root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For web sites that request full server root access, or if your website has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily viewers, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A private virtual hosting server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated server and it acts in strictly the same manner.

Private Virtual Web Servers

Both platforms generally provide root privileges and can be rebooted through a software interface by the user, independently from the hosting provider. Similar to the shared web page hosting packages, the private virtual web server hosting and the dedicated web server packages contain different functionalities depending on what the web hosting supplier offers. A virtual web hosting server plan contains guaranteed data space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can sometimes be enlarged for brief intervals of time in case there are spare system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is using, and it can be revved up by altering or adding components. A virtual private web server is simpler to tackle as it involves a virtualization tool, which can be used to restart it, to install software applications, explore statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be used by competent customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

However, certain web hosting corporations offer managed dedicated server hosting services where they carry out dedicated web hosting server management tasks on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional feature.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Settling on the top hosting package is important as it can affect the stable performance of a website. Before selecting a package, compare the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the requirements for the website to perform properly, particularly if it is script-powered, and, last but not least, if you have already settled on a host, the best you could do would be to ask their client support team for advice as to which particular package would be best for the stable performance of your web site.