Top Shared Hosting

There are various sorts of shared hosting services appropriate for different sites with regard to the resources or the shared hosting environment they demand. To select the most appropriate shared hosting service for your site, you must reckon what server-side software applications it requires, how many daily visits you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special demands that may have to be satisfied.

Shared Web Hosting - Positive Signs

The most optimal option for small websites with a few hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this form of web space hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which minimizes the total cost per customer drastically. There are diverse web hosting packages varying from one web host to another, delivering different amounts of web space and monthly bandwidth, different email box account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can obtain a package that will provide the specifications your web page in fact demands. You will not need to pay lots of money for a plan you will not make use of, or wind up with a small size account that cannot accommodate the website. We, at Darkforged Services, offer a big choice of shared hosting plans appropriate for private or small business web sites that even offer pre-installed script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things easier. If you kick off with a cheaper plan and you demand more system resources, upgrading to a more feature-rich package requires just a click of the mouse.

Shared web hosting - Negative Aspects

A downside of the shared web hosting solution is that the web servers have some software installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Some online portals, chiefly web stores, request software applications to be present on the server for them to run, and with a shared website hosting plan, you can install solely software platforms that do not demand full root access.

Private Virtual Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For web portals that need server root access, or if your site has many 1000's or even millions of daily visitors, what you demand is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A virtual hosting server is a software imitation of a dedicated solution and it behaves in a strictly identical manner.

Virtual Servers

Both services typically include root-level access and can be restarted via a software program by the client, autonomously from the web hosting company. Similar to the shared website hosting accounts, the virtual private servers and the dedicated server hosting packages involve diverse specs depending on what the web hosting vendor has to offer. A Virtual Private Server web hosting account has guaranteed web storage, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be enlarged for short spans of time in case there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limitation is the hardware it is using, and it can be revamped by altering or appending components. A VPS web server is easier to cope with as it ships with a virtualization software platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, check statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated server is more intricate, so such a plan would rather be utilized by tech-savvy users.

Dedicated Web Servers

Yet, some hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they complete dedicated web hosting server management tasks instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an extra option.

Before You Elect...

Settling on the top hosting package is vital as it can affect the stable operation of a online portal. Prior to selecting a plan, weigh the pros and cons, check completely all the requirements for the web portal to perform properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still not sure which one is the best shared 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.