Best Shared Hosting

There are different kinds of shared hosting services suitable for different web portals in relation to the resources or the shared hosting platform they demand. To pick the best shared hosting service for your web portal, you have to estimate what server-side software it requires, how many daily visits you anticipate at the start and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may need to be covered.

Shared web hosting - Positive Sides

The most appropriate alternative for small scale web sites with several hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this type of website hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which diminishes the overall price per customer noticeably. There are different web hosting plans differing from one web hosting provider to another, delivering different amounts of disk space and monthly bandwidth, different e-mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can buy an account that will provide the specs your web page in fact demands. You will not have to pay a lot for a plan you will not utilize, or end up with a small size account that cannot host the web page. We, at JITTY, offer an extensive assortment of shared hosting packages suitable for personal or small business web sites that even provide pre-activated script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you begin with a basic account and you demand more system resources, upgrading to a high-end package involves only a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Hosting - Weaknesses

A negative side of the shared website hosting environment is that the servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software. Certain web sites, chiefly web stores, demand applications to be installed on the web hosting server for them to work, and with a shared web hosting plan, you can install solely software programs that do not require complete root-level access.

Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For online portals that require full root access, or if your web portal has many 1000's or even millions of daily hits, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. A virtual hosting server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated web server and it works in absolutely the same manner.

Virtual Hosting Servers

Both environments typically provide server root access and can be restarted through a software interface by the user, autonomously from the hosting supplier. Analogous to the shared hosting plans, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting server plans comprise different functionalities based on what the web hosting vendor offers. A private virtual web server package contains guaranteed storage space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can sometimes be increased for brief stretches of time provided that there are free resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is using, and it can be configured by changing or appending components. A virtual server is easier to cope with as it offers a virtualization tool, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, explore stats, etc. The administration of a dedicated web server is more complex, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by tech-savvy users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

However, some providers provide managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they implement server management assignments instead of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional service.

Before You Opt...

Choosing the top hosting plan is important as it can have an influence on the proper operation of a site. Before choosing a package, compare the pros and cons, examine carefully all the requirements for the online portal to function properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still unsure which is the best shared hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.