Top Web Hosting

There are various types of web hosting plans suitable for different websites in relation to the system resources or the web hosting environment they demand. To choose the most appropriate web hosting service for your web portal, you have to reckon what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily hits you expect at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be fulfilled.

Shared web hosting - Positive Points

The most proper choice for small online portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting package. With this form of website hosting, each client pays only for their account, which decreases the total cost per user radically. There are diverse web hosting accounts varying from one hosting company to another, offering different amounts of data storage space and monthly bandwidth, different mail address account quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can buy a plan that will offer the resources your online portal actually needs. You will not need to pay lots of money for an account you will not avail of, or end up with a small plan that cannot host the web site. We, at AN1 Technology Group, offer a big selection of web hosting plans appropriate for private or small business web portals that even provide pre-installed script-powered systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you kick off with a low-cost account and you need more resources, moving to a more advanced package takes just a click.

Shared web hosting - Negative Sides

A negative side of the shared website hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install new software applications. Given sites, chiefly online storefronts, demand software applications to be present on the web server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can install only software applications that do not need full server root access.

VPS Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For portals that need full root-level access, or if your site has many 1000's or even millions of daily hits, what you demand is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A VPS hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated solution and it functions in an exactly identical manner.

Private Virtual Servers

Both environments normally include server root access and can be rebooted through a software platform by the customer, autonomously from the hosting supplier. Like the shared web hosting plans, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated server web hosting packages come with diverse specifications depending on what the web hosting provider has to offer. A virtual server hosting account offers guaranteed disk storage space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be expanded for short periods of time in case there are unused system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limit is the hardware it is using, and it can be revved up by changing or adding components. A private virtual server is easier to handle as it arrives with a virtualization platform, which can be used to restart it, to install software applications, examine statistics, and so on. The management of a dedicated server is more intricate, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by experienced users.

Dedicated Web Servers

Still, certain hosting providers provide managed dedicated hosting solutions where they run dedicated hosting server administration tasks instead of the client. This can be a part of package or an extra upgrade.

Before You Choose...

Choosing the top hosting plan is crucial as it can have an effect on the proper work of a site. Prior to picking an account, weigh the pros and cons, review carefully all the requirements for the site to run properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which is the best web hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.