Best Web Hosting

There are various sorts of web hosting packages appropriate for different sites in relation to the system resources or the web hosting environment they demand. To choose the most adequate web hosting service for your site, you have to evaluate 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 special demands that may have to be covered.

Shared Website Hosting - Good Points

The best choice for small scale websites with several hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting package. With this form of site hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which reduces the overall cost per customer radically. There are different web hosting packages varying from one hosting firm to another, furnishing different amounts of hard disk storage and traffic, different mail address account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can obtain an account that will offer the resources your website really requires. You will not have to pay a lot of money for a plan you will not use, or end up with a small package that cannot host the web page. We, at Zap Domains, offer a huge variety of web hosting solutions suitable for private or small business web sites that even offer pre-installed script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you kick off with a low priced plan and you require more functionalities, moving to a better account requires just a click.

Shared web hosting - Negative Points

A weakness of the shared hosting solution is that the web servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot activate new software. Some online portals, especially web storefronts, request software applications to be present on the server for them to run, and with a shared hosting platform, you can activate only software that does not require complete root access.

Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For portals that need root access, or if your portal has many thousands or even 1 000 000's of daily viewers, what you demand is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A private virtual server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated machine and it functions in strictly the same way.

Virtual Servers

Both solutions commonly provide root-level access and can be restarted via a software tool by the user, autonomously from the hosting supplier. Akin to the shared website hosting accounts, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web hosting server packages come with different features depending on what the web hosting company has to offer. A virtual web server hosting account offers guaranteed disk space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can occasionally be increased for short intervals of time in case there are spare system resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is availing of, and it can be upgraded by altering or appending components. A virtual hosting server is easier to manage as it comprises a virtualization platform, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install software applications, explore statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated web server is more complicated, so such a package would rather be used by proficient clients.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Still, given web hosting companies provide managed dedicated hosting services where they carry out web hosting server management tasks instead of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an additional upgrade.

Prior To Selecting...

Picking the top hosting plan is essential as it can have an effect on the stable performance of a online portal. Prior to choosing an account, compare the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the prerequisites for the web page to function properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still not sure which is the best web hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.