Best Shared Hosting

There are various kinds of shared hosting accounts suitable for different websites in regard to the resources or the shared hosting platform they need. To pick the best shared hosting service for your website, you must access what server-side software applications it needs, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may have to be covered.

Shared Website Hosting - Pluses

The most relevant choice for small size web sites with several hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this type of website hosting, each user pays only for their account, which decreases the total price per user significantly. There are different web hosting plans differing from one web hosting vendor to another, furnishing different quotas of hard disk storage and monthly traffic, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can order a package that will offer the resources your website indeed needs. You will not need to pay a lot for an account you will not utilize, or wind up with a small package that cannot accommodate the web site. We, at Hosting South Africa, offer an enormous collection of shared hosting packages appropriate for private or small business sites that even provide pre-activated script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make it easier. If you begin with a low-price plan and you require more functionalities, moving to a more feature-rich package takes only a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Weak Points

A weakness of the shared website hosting platform is that the web hosting servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate new software programs. Some sites, above all online stores, require applications to be present on the web server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can activate only software applications that do not demand full server root access.

Virtual Private Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For sites that demand root-level access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of visits per day, what you demand is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a software emulation of a dedicated server and it functions in precisely the same manner.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

Both platforms normally come with server root access and can be rebooted via a software tool by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting company. Akin to the shared web hosting packages, the virtual private servers and the dedicated web hosting server packages have different features based on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A virtual web hosting server package contains guaranteed server space, RAM and CPU quotas that can occasionally be increased for brief spans of time on condition that there are spare resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is availing of, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A virtual private web server is simpler to administer as it arrives with virtualization software, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, examine statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more intricate, so such an account would rather be used by knowledgeable users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Yet, some web hosting vendors offer managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they carry out server administration procedures on behalf of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional service.

Before You Decide...

Opting for the top hosting plan is vital as it can influence the proper operation of a web portal. Before opting for a plan, weigh the pros and cons, appraise thoroughly all the preconditions for the web site to run properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best shared hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.