Top Hosting

There are various varieties of hosting packages suitable for different web portals in relation to the system resources or the hosting platform they demand. To select the most appropriate hosting service for your online portal, you need to access what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily visits you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special demands that may need to be met.

Shared Web Hosting - Benefits

The most suitable alternative for small size web portals with a few hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting package. With this type of web site hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which lowers the overall price per user critically. There are diverse web hosting accounts differing from one provider to another, delivering different amounts of data storage and traffic, different e-mail box account quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can obtain a plan that will have the features your web site actually demands. You will not have to pay lots of money for a package you will not utilize, or wind up with a small sized account that cannot host the site. We, at OKCISP (OKC's Internet Space Provider), offer a large array of hosting packages suitable for private or small business portals that even offer pre-installed script-driven systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it easier. If you start with a low grade package and you demand more functionalities, moving to a more feature-rich package demands only a click.

Shared Website Hosting - Weaknesses

A shortcoming of the shared web hosting platform is that the web servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot activate additional software programs. Specific sites, mainly web stores, require software applications to be available on the server for them to operate, and with a shared web hosting account, you can install solely software platforms that do not request complete server root access.

VPSs and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For online portals that request full server root access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even millions of visitors per day, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated package. A private virtual hosting server is a software imitation of a dedicated web server and it operates in an exactly identical way.

VPS Servers

Both services normally give full root access and can be restarted through a software platform by the client, independently from the hosting company. Analogous to the shared website hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated web server hosting packages come with diverse features depending on what the web hosting supplier has to offer. A private virtual server hosting package includes guaranteed hard disk space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be expanded for brief spans of time if there are spare resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limit is the hardware configuration it is making use of, and it can be revamped by changing or appending components. A VPS web hosting server is easier to tackle as it offers virtualization software, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, check statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated server is more elaborate, so such a solution would rather be utilized by practiced clients.

Dedicated Web Servers

However, given web hosting vendors offer managed dedicated web server hosting services where they complete hosting server management procedures on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of plan or an additional feature.

Before You Choose...

Choosing the top hosting plan is important as it can affect the stable work of a web portal. Before choosing an account, weigh the pros and cons, explore completely all the requirements for the web site to work properly, particularly if it is script-driven. And if you are still in doubt which one is the best hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.