Top Website Hosting

There are different varieties of website hosting accounts suitable for different web pages when it comes to the resources or the website hosting platform they need. To choose the most adequate website hosting service for your site, you must estimate what server-side software applications it needs, how many daily visits you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be covered.

Shared Hosting - Pluses

The most optimal choice for small sized web sites with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this type of site hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which decreases the overall cost per user substantially. There are various web hosting plans differing from one company to another, providing different quotas of server storage space and monthly traffic, different e-mail quotas and so on. The good point is that you can get a plan that will provide the features your web portal actually needs. You will not have to pay a lot for a plan you will not utilize, or wind up with a small size account that cannot accommodate the site. We, at AX Cloud, offer a huge selection of website hosting solutions suitable for private or small business web sites that even come with pre-installed script-based platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it simpler. If you kick off with a basic account and you need more features, upgrading to a more advanced package takes just a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Shortcomings

A weakness of the shared web hosting platform is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Given online portals, chiefly online storefronts, need software applications to be installed on the web hosting server for them to work, and with a shared website hosting solution, you can activate solely software platforms that do not demand complete root access.

VPS Web Servers and Dedicated Servers

For portals that require server root access, or if your online portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you require is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A virtual private hosting server is a software emulation of a dedicated server and it runs in a strictly identical way.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both services usually give full root-level access and can be restarted through a software program by the customer, autonomously from the hosting provider. Akin to the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated web hosting server accounts come with different specifications based on what the hosting vendor offers. A VPS web hosting server account offers guaranteed server storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be expanded for brief intervals of time in case there are unused resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware architecture it is using, and it can be configured by altering or appending components. A virtual private web server is easier to handle as it involves a virtualization console, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, monitor stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated web server is more elaborate, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by skilled clients.

Dedicated Servers

Nevertheless, given web hosting companies offer managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they implement dedicated web hosting server management tasks on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional upgrade.

Prior To Opting...

Selecting the top hosting package is crucial as it can influence the proper performance of a website. Prior to settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, explore completely all the preconditions for the web page to work properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which is the best website hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.