Top Web Hosting

There are various kinds of web hosting plans suitable for different sites in regard to the resources or the web hosting environment they demand. To select the most adequate web hosting service for your web site, you must estimate what server-side software 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 have to be fulfilled.

Shared website hosting - Positive Points

The most relevant choice for small scale online portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this type of web hosting, each user pays only for their account, which decreases the overall price per person drastically. There are various web hosting packages varying from one web hosting vendor to another, offering different quotas of disk storage space and monthly bandwidth, different email account quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can pay for a plan that will provide the features your site indeed needs. You will not have to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not use, or wind up with a small scale account that cannot shelter the web site. We, at Iwindows, offer an immense variety of web hosting solutions suitable for personal or small business pages that even offer pre-installed script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you commence with a low-end package and you demand more features, moving to a more feature-rich plan involves just a mouse click.

Shared website hosting - Weak Sides

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install new software. Specific sites, above all web stores, require applications to be activated on the server for them to work, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can install only software that does not require complete server root access.

VPS Web Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For online portals that request root-level access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of daily viewers, what you need is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A Virtual Private Server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated solution and it behaves in an exactly identical way.

Private Virtual Servers

Both solutions commonly come with full root privileges and can be restarted via a software program by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Akin to the shared web hosting accounts, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web server hosting packages comprise diverse features based on what the web hosting vendor has to offer. A VPS hosting server package offers guaranteed disk space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can occasionally be extended for short spells of time if there are free system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limitation is the hardware configuration it is using, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A virtual hosting server is simpler to cope with as it comprises a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, examine statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more elaborate, so such a package would rather be utilized by competent users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nonetheless, given web hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated web hosting solutions where they perform web hosting server management procedures instead of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional option.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Choosing the top hosting plan is essential as it can have an influence on the proper work of a online portal. Before opting for an account, weigh the pros and cons, examine carefully all the preconditions for the website to run properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best web hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.