Quality Hosting

There are various types of hosting plans suitable for different sites in relation to the resources or the hosting platform they demand. To select the most relevant hosting service for your web site, you must calculate what server-side software programs it needs, how many hits per day you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be answered.

Shared website hosting - Benefits

The most relevant alternative for small sized web pages with a few hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this type of website hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which decreases the overall cost per customer drastically. There are various web hosting accounts differing from one hosting vendor to another, offering different quotas of storage space and web traffic, different email quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can get a package that will provide the specifications your web site really requires. You will not need to pay a lot of cash for a package you will not utilize, or wind up with a small account that cannot accommodate the web portal. We, at White River Domains, offer a wide selection of hosting packages appropriate for private or small business web portals that even offer pre-activated script-driven platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you kick off with a less powerful plan and you demand more resources, upgrading to a more advanced plan takes only a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Minuses

A weak side of the shared hosting platform is that the web hosting servers have some software programs installed on them and you are unable to install additional software platforms. Given web portals, particularly online shops, demand applications to be present on the server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting package, you can activate solely software that does not request full root-level access.

Virtual Private Web Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For online portals that require full root-level access, or if your online portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of visitors per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated package. A VPS web hosting server is a software imitation of a dedicated web hosting server and it works in a precisely identical way.

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

Both platforms normally offer complete root access and can be rebooted via a software tool by the client, independently from the web hosting supplier. Like the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS and the dedicated server web hosting accounts involve diverse characteristics based on what the hosting vendor offers. A VPS server hosting account includes guaranteed data storage space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can occasionally be expanded for short stretches of time provided that there are available resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware configuration it is availing of, and it can be configured by changing or adding components. A virtual private hosting server is easier to administer as it arrives with a virtualization console, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated server is more intricate, so such a solution would rather be used by trained users.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Nonetheless, certain web hosting firms provide managed dedicated hosting services where they execute web server administration operations instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an extra upgrade.

Before You Opt...

Choosing the top hosting package is vital as it can influence the proper functioning of a site. Prior to choosing a plan, weigh the pros and cons, study thoroughly all the requirements for the website to run properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.