Quality Web Hosting

There are different varieties of web hosting accounts suitable for different web sites with regard to the system resources or the web hosting platform they need. To select the most suitable web hosting service for your web site, you need to estimate what server-side software it demands, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific requirements that may have to be answered.

Shared Web Hosting - Perquisites

The most appropriate alternative for small scale online portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting account. With this type of hosting, each user pays only for their account, which minimizes the total cost per person radically. There are various web hosting accounts varying from one hosting corporation to another, providing different amounts of web space and traffic, different e-mail quotas and so on. The advantage is that you can pay for an account that will have the specifications your web page indeed needs. You will not need to pay plenty of money for a plan you will not make use of, or wind up with a small sized package that cannot host the site. We, at Ameriline Hosting, offer a large variety of web hosting accounts suitable for personal or small business web sites that even come with pre-activated script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you commence with a less powerful plan and you demand more resources, moving to a more feature-rich plan takes just a click.

Shared website hosting - Downsides

A drawback of the shared web hosting solution is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you cannot activate additional software applications. Given sites, particularly online stores, request software applications to be activated on the hosting server for them to operate, and with a shared web hosting platform, you can activate only software programs that do not require root-level access.

VPS Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For portals that require complete root access, or if your web page has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of daily visits, what you need is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A virtual web hosting server is a software emulation of a dedicated hosting server and it runs in an absolutely identical manner.

VPS Servers

Both solutions commonly provide server root access and can be restarted via a software interface by the client, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared website hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web hosting server plans involve different functionalities depending on what the hosting vendor has to offer. A private virtual web hosting server plan offers guaranteed hard disk storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be boosted for short stretches of time in case there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be upgraded by altering or appending components. A virtual private web server is simpler to handle as it offers a virtualization panel, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, check statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such a package would rather be used by proficient users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Still, some hosting providers provide managed dedicated hosting services where they run dedicated web hosting server management assignments on behalf of the client. This can be a part of plan or an extra feature.

Prior To Choosing...

Settling on the top hosting package is crucial as it can have an effect on the stable performance of a web portal. Prior to settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, check thoroughly all the preconditions for the online portal to operate properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best web hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.