Top Hosting

There are different types of hosting packages suitable for different web portals in terms of the system resources or the hosting environment they need. To choose the most adequate hosting service for your web portal, you must judge what server-side software applications it requires, how many visits per day 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 - Upsides

The most adequate choice for small web pages with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting plan. With this form of hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which reduces the overall cost per person drastically. There are different web hosting plans differing from one hosting company to another, delivering different amounts of hard disk storage space and web traffic, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can order a package that will include the features your web portal actually requires. You will not have to pay a lot for an account you will not make use of, or wind up with a small scale account that cannot accommodate the web site. We, at Epacket, offer a wide array of hosting solutions appropriate for personal or small business web sites that even include pre-activated script-driven platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you start with a low-cost plan and you demand more functionalities, moving to a more advanced account involves just a click of the mouse.

Shared web hosting - Minuses

A weakness of the shared website hosting environment is that the web servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install additional software programs. Some websites, above all online stores, request software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared hosting plan, you can install solely software platforms that do not request server root access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For online portals that demand complete root access, or if your portal has many thousands or even millions of visitors per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated package. A VPS web server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated hosting server and it works in an absolutely identical way.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers

Both services commonly provide complete root access and can be rebooted via a software interface by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Much like the shared website hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated hosting packages include diverse features depending on what the web hosting vendor offers. A virtual server web hosting plan has guaranteed data storage space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be extended for brief spells of time in case there are free system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web server, the only limitation is the hardware it is availing of, and it can be revamped by altering or adding components. A virtual hosting server is easier to manipulate as it includes a virtualization tool, which can be used to reboot it, to install applications, check statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complicated, so such a plan would rather be utilized by competent users.

Dedicated Web Servers

Yet, certain companies offer managed dedicated server hosting services where they implement server administration operations instead of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional upgrade.

Prior To Selecting...

Picking the top hosting package is important as it can have an influence on the stable work of a website. Before picking a package, weigh the pros and cons, survey carefully all the prerequisites for the web page to function properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which one is the best hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.