Best Hosting

There are various sorts of hosting packages suitable for different sites with regard to the system resources or the hosting platform they need. To select the most optimal hosting service for your web site, you need to evaluate what server-side software it requires, how many daily hits you expect at the start and in the future, as well as any other special demands that may need to be met.

Shared Web Hosting - Positive Sides

The most proper choice for small scale web portals with a few hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this type of web space hosting, each client pays only for their account, which decreases the total price per customer critically. There are diverse web hosting plans differing from one provider to another, delivering different amounts of web space and monthly bandwidth, different mail account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can pay for an account that will provide the specifications your web site really needs. You will not need to pay plenty of money for a plan you will not avail of, or wind up with a small package that cannot accommodate the website. We, at GTO Hosting, offer a wide variety of hosting packages appropriate for personal or small business web portals that even offer pre-activated script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you kick off with a cheaper account and you demand more functionalities, moving to a more feature-rich plan requires only a click of the mouse.

Shared web hosting - Negative Aspects

A weak side of the shared web hosting solution is that the servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to activate additional software programs. Certain websites, mainly web stores, need software applications to be activated on the hosting server for them to function, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can activate only software applications that do not request root-level access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For online portals that request root access, or if your web page has many 1000's or even millions of visitors per day, what you need is a VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS hosting server is a software imitation of a dedicated web server and it behaves in exactly the same way.

Private Virtual Web Servers

Both platforms generally come with full root access and can be rebooted through a software platform by the user, autonomously from the hosting provider. Analogous to the shared web hosting plans, the VPS and the dedicated server hosting accounts involve diverse specs based on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A virtual private web server plan contains guaranteed hard disk storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can occasionally be enhanced for brief periods of time if there are unused resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web server, the only limit is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A virtual web server is simpler to run as it offers virtualization software, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web hosting server is more complicated, so such a plan would rather be resorted to by knowledgeable users.

Dedicated Web Servers

Nevertheless, given hosting vendors provide managed dedicated server hosting solutions where they execute server administration tasks on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of package or an extra option.

Before You Decide...

Opting for the top hosting package is vital as it can affect the stable functioning of a web site. Prior to opting for a package, compare the pros and cons, study completely all the requirements for the online portal to operate properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.