Quality Shared Hosting

There are various types of shared hosting accounts suitable for different web pages in regard to the system resources or the shared hosting platform they demand. To choose the most suitable shared hosting service for your web site, you must estimate what server-side software applications it requires, how many daily visits you anticipate at the beginning and in the future, as well as any other special needs that may need to be covered.

Shared Hosting - Privileges

The most adequate choice for small sized web portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting plan. With this type of hosting, each user pays only for their account, which diminishes the overall price per customer substantially. There are diverse web hosting plans differing from one company to another, delivering different quotas of web space and monthly traffic, different e-mail account quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can get a plan that will provide the features your web portal really needs. You will not need to pay lots of money for a plan you will not utilize, or end up with a small size plan that cannot shelter the website. We, at St. Clare Web Hosting, offer a wide array of shared hosting packages suitable for personal or small business sites that even offer pre-activated script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you start with a low priced account and you demand more functionalities, moving to a high-end package takes just a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Disadvantages

A negative aspect of the shared web hosting solution is that the web servers have some software programs installed on them and you are unable to install additional software applications. Certain online portals, mainly web shops, request applications to be installed on the web server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting account, you can activate only software platforms that do not need complete root access.

Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web portals that demand full root access, or if your site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of hits per day, what you require is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A private virtual server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it works in absolutely the same way.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers

Both platforms usually provide root privileges and can be restarted through a software platform by the user, autonomously from the web hosting company. Like the shared website hosting packages, the virtual private servers and the dedicated web hosting packages comprise different functionalities depending on what the hosting supplier has to offer. A Virtual Private Server plan includes guaranteed disk storage, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can at times be increased for brief stretches of time on condition that there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be revved up by changing or adding components. A Virtual Private Server is easier to cope with as it ships with virtualization software, which can be used to restart it, to install software applications, check stats, and so on. The management of a dedicated web server is more intricate, so such an account would rather be utilized by skilled clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, given web hosting vendors offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they execute dedicated web server management tasks instead of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an extra service.

Prior To Electing...

Opting for the top hosting plan is important as it can have an influence on the proper performance of a web portal. Before choosing a package, weigh the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the preconditions for the web page to perform properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still unsure which one is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.