Top Website Hosting

There are different kinds of website hosting solutions suitable for different web pages in terms of the resources or the website hosting environment they need. To choose the most suitable website hosting service for your online portal, you have to estimate what server-side software it requires, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special demands that may need to be met.

Shared website hosting - Positive Aspects

The most adequate option for small online portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting package. With this form of web site hosting, each client pays only for their account, which lowers the overall price per client drastically. There are various web hosting packages varying from one web host to another, providing different amounts of server space and traffic, different e-mail account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can obtain an account that will include the specifications your site actually requires. You will not have to pay lots of cash for a plan you will not use, or wind up with a small scale package that cannot host the web site. We, at Melanesia Web Hosting, offer an enormous variety of website hosting packages appropriate for private or small business portals that even include pre-installed script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you commence with a cheaper account and you demand more features, upgrading to a more advanced account involves just a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Inconveniences

A weak side of the shared website hosting environment is that the web servers have some software programs installed on them and you are unable to activate new software. Given web pages, particularly web storefronts, demand software applications to be activated on the server for them to run, and with a shared web hosting package, you can install only software programs that do not request complete root access.

Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Servers

For portals that need full root access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of visitors per day, what you require is a VPS web hosting or a dedicated web hosting. A VPS hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web server and it operates in absolutely the same way.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both platforms usually provide full server root access and can be restarted through a software interface by the customer, autonomously from the hosting provider. Like the shared website hosting packages, the VPS web hosting and the dedicated hosting server packages have different specifications depending on what the web hosting company has to offer. A Virtual Private Server hosting package has guaranteed storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be boosted for short spells of time provided that there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be upgraded by changing or appending components. A Virtual Private Server is easier to cope with as it offers a virtualization tool, which can be used to reboot it, to install applications, explore statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complicated, so such a solution would rather be utilized by proficient clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, given web hosting companies offer managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they execute dedicated web server management procedures on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an extra feature.

Before You Select...

Selecting the top hosting package is essential as it can influence the stable work of a site. Prior to opting for a plan, compare the pros and cons, review thoroughly all the requirements for the online portal to perform properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which one is the best website hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.