Best Shared Hosting

There are various types of shared hosting plans suitable for different sites with regard to the resources or the shared hosting environment they need. To select the most adequate shared hosting service for your web portal, you have to calculate what server-side software it needs, how many hits per day you expect at the start and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be met.

Shared web hosting - Dividends

The most optimal option for small scale web sites with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting account. With this form of web site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which decreases the total price per user radically. There are diverse web hosting plans differing from one hosting corporation to another, providing different quotas of server storage and monthly bandwidth, different email box account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can buy a plan that will include the resources your online portal actually demands. You will not have to pay a lot for a package you will not avail of, or wind up with a small scale plan that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at BigHost, offer a vast collection of shared hosting solutions appropriate for personal or small business web sites that even offer pre-installed script-driven platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you begin with a less powerful plan and you demand more system resources, upgrading to a high-end account takes just a mouse click.

Shared web hosting - Negative Points

A weakness of the shared website hosting environment is that the servers have some software installed on them and you cannot install additional software platforms. Given online portals, particularly online shops, require software applications to be present on the hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared web hosting package, you can activate only software platforms that do not require complete root-level access.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

For web pages that demand complete server root access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even millions of viewers per day, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A VPS web hosting server is a software emulation of a dedicated web server and it runs in precisely the same manner.

VPS Web Hosting Servers

Both environments typically give complete server root access and can be restarted via a software interface by the client, independently from the web hosting supplier. Analogous to the shared web hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated hosting accounts contain diverse specs depending on what the web hosting vendor offers. A VPS hosting account has guaranteed server space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can at times be extended for short spells of time in case there are available system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limit is the hardware equipment it is utilizing, and it can be configured by changing or appending components. A virtual web server is simpler to tackle as it comes with a virtualization tool, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, explore stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complex, so such a package would rather be utilized by competent customers.

Dedicated Web Servers

Yet, certain providers provide managed dedicated server web hosting solutions where they execute web hosting server administration operations on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional service.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Picking the top hosting plan is essential as it can influence the proper work of a site. Prior to selecting a plan, compare the pros and cons, investigate thoroughly all the preconditions for the website to perform properly, especially if it is script-based. And if you are still not sure which is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales representatives will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.