Quality Hosting

There are different kinds of hosting solutions appropriate for different web pages in relation to the system resources or the hosting environment they demand. To pick the most relevant hosting service for your site, you need to calculate what server-side software programs it demands, how many hits per day you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other specific needs that may have to be fulfilled.

Shared Web Hosting - Pluses

The most suitable option for small sized online portals with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting package. With this form of website hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which decreases the total price per person drastically. There are different web hosting plans differing from one company to another, delivering different quotas of data storage and bandwidth, different email box account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can buy a plan that will include the specifications your web portal indeed demands. You will not have to pay a lot of cash for an account you will not use, or wind up with a small size plan that cannot host the online portal. We, at Pittsburgh Hosting Company, offer a vast collection of hosting accounts appropriate for private or small business sites that even include pre-activated script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it simpler. If you begin with a basic account and you need more features, moving to a more powerful account involves just a click of the mouse.

Shared Website Hosting - Shortcomings

A downside of the shared website hosting solution is that the hosting servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to activate new software. Given web portals, chiefly web stores, need applications to be available on the web hosting server for them to function, and with a shared web hosting account, you can activate only software applications that do not need root access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For websites that need root-level access, or if your online portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a virtual emulation of a dedicated web hosting server and it functions in exactly the same manner.

Virtual Hosting Servers

Both solutions generally give full server root privileges and can be restarted via a software tool by the user, independently from the hosting company. Similar to the shared website hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated hosting plans sport diverse functionalities depending on what the hosting vendor has to offer. A private virtual server package has guaranteed server space, random access memory and CPU usage quotas that can sometimes be boosted for brief intervals of time if there are available system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web server, the only limitation is the hardware it is utilizing, and it can be configured by altering or appending components. A virtual private web hosting server is simpler to handle as it comprises a virtualization platform, which can be used to restart it, to install applications, check stats, etc. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more elaborate, so such a solution would rather be utilized by practiced clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nonetheless, certain web hosting firms offer managed dedicated hosting solutions where they carry out web server administration tasks on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the package or an extra upgrade.

Prior To Choosing...

Settling on the top hosting plan is important as it can influence the stable performance of a website. Prior to settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, check carefully all the prerequisites for the web site to operate properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still unsure which one is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.