Quality Website Hosting

There are different varieties of website hosting solutions suitable for different web sites with regard to the resources or the website hosting platform they demand. To pick the most appropriate website hosting service for your online portal, you must evaluate what server-side software programs it needs, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may need to be met.

Shared website hosting - Positive Sides

The most relevant alternative for small sites with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this type of hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which minimizes the total cost per person noticeably. There are various web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting firm to another, furnishing different amounts of web storage and monthly traffic, different e-mail address account quotas and so on. The good point is that you can pay for a plan that will include the specs your website indeed demands. You will not need to pay a lot for an account you will not make use of, or wind up with a small size package that cannot shelter the web page. We, at Design Turtle, offer a vast assortment of website hosting solutions appropriate for private or small business portals that even offer pre-installed script-driven platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you kick off with a basic package and you demand more resources, moving to a more powerful plan demands just a mouse click.

Shared Hosting - Inconveniences

A disadvantage of the shared web hosting environment is that the web hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to install new software applications. Some web portals, above all online shops, require applications to be present on the web server for them to run, and with a shared website hosting plan, you can install solely software applications that do not demand root-level access.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web sites that need root access, or if your site has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you need is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A virtual web server is a software simulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it operates in precisely the same manner.

Virtual Private Web Servers

Both services commonly include complete server root access and can be rebooted through a software program by the client, independently from the web hosting supplier. Just like the shared web hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated server web hosting packages comprise different specs depending on what the hosting company has to offer. A virtual private web server plan has guaranteed hard disk storage space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be enlarged for brief spans of time on condition that there are free system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware equipment it is making use of, and it can be configured by altering or appending components. A VPS is easier to manipulate as it involves a virtualization console, which can be utilized to restart it, to install applications, explore statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such a solution would rather be utilized by skilled users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Yet, certain hosting providers provide managed dedicated web server hosting services where they implement server administration tasks instead of the customer. This can be included in the package or an extra service.

Prior To Electing...

Selecting the top hosting package is essential as it can have an effect on the proper performance of a online portal. Prior to opting for a package, weigh the pros and cons, examine carefully all the preconditions for the online portal to run properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still unsure which one is the best website hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.