Top Hosting

There are various types of hosting plans appropriate for different web portals in terms of the resources or the hosting environment they need. To choose the best hosting service for your web portal, you need to access what server-side software programs it demands, how many daily visits you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be answered.

Shared website hosting - Positive Aspects

The most appropriate choice for small scale web portals with several hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this type of web hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which reduces the total price per user drastically. There are diverse web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting provider to another, offering different quotas of data storage and monthly bandwidth, different email address account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can buy an account that will have the features your web portal indeed demands. You will not need to pay plenty of cash for an account you will not utilize, or end up with a small sized account that cannot shelter the web site. We, at Southport Communications Web Services, offer an extensive variety of hosting plans appropriate for personal or small business pages that even come with pre-activated script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you begin with a cheaper package and you demand more resources, moving to a high-end package requires just a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Weak Sides

A weakness of the shared web hosting environment is that the hosting servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to activate new software. Specific sites, especially web storefronts, request software applications to be installed on the server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting account, you can activate solely software platforms that do not demand root-level access.

Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web sites that require complete root-level access, or if your site has many 1000's or even millions of visitors per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual private web hosting server is a software emulation of a dedicated solution and it runs in an absolutely identical way.

VPS Web Servers

Both services commonly give full root-level access and can be rebooted via a software platform by the client, autonomously from the hosting provider. Just like the shared website hosting plans, the VPS and the dedicated hosting accounts involve diverse specifications depending on what the web hosting provider offers. A VPS server web hosting account includes guaranteed data storage, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can sometimes be expanded for short stretches of time in case there are unused resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is making use of, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A virtual server is simpler to cope with as it includes a virtualization software platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, monitor stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web server is more complicated, so such a package would rather be used by qualified customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Still, some hosting vendors offer managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they carry out dedicated hosting server management operations instead of the client. This can be included in the package or an additional service.

Before You Opt...

Settling on the top hosting plan is crucial as it can have an influence on the stable functioning of a site. Before settling on a plan, compare the pros and cons, check completely all the preconditions for the site to run properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still not sure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.