Quality Hosting

There are various types of hosting services appropriate for different web portals when it comes to the resources or the hosting platform they demand. To pick the best hosting service for your web portal, you must judge what server-side software it requires, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may have to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Perks

The most optimal option for small web pages with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting package. With this type of web space hosting, each user pays only for their account, which minimizes the overall price per customer seriously. There are diverse web hosting plans differing from one web hosting supplier to another, supplying different quotas of disk storage and bandwidth, different email account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can get a plan that will include the resources your web portal in fact requires. You will not have to pay plenty of cash for a package you will not use, or end up with a small scale account that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at Kenya Digital Cloud, offer an enormous variety of hosting accounts appropriate for private or small business sites that even offer pre-activated script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you begin with a low-end plan and you require more functionalities, upgrading to a more advanced package demands just a click of the mouse.

Shared Web Hosting - Negative Points

A negative side of the shared web hosting platform is that the servers have some software installed on them and you are unable to install new software programs. Specific web sites, especially web shops, require applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to work, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can activate solely software platforms that do not require root-level access.

Private Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For sites that need full root access, or if your website has many 1000's or even millions of daily viewers, what you demand is a VPS or a dedicated package. A VPS web server is a software imitation of a dedicated server and it performs in exactly the same manner.

VPS Web Servers

Both solutions commonly include full root access and can be restarted via a software interface by the customer, autonomously from the web hosting supplier. Analogous to the shared website hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated hosting plans have diverse characteristics depending on what the hosting provider has to offer. A VPS hosting server plan contains guaranteed server storage, RAM and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be extended for short spans of time provided that there are unused system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware it is utilizing, and it can be upgraded by changing or appending components. A virtual web hosting server is easier to handle as it comes with a virtualization platform, which can be used to restart it, to install software applications, check statistics, etc. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more elaborate, so such an account would rather be resorted to by qualified users.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Nevertheless, some companies offer managed dedicated web hosting solutions where they implement server management operations on behalf of the client. This can be a part of package or an extra upgrade.

Before You Reach a Decision...

Settling on the top hosting plan is essential as it can have an influence on the stable operation of a website. Prior to selecting a plan, compare the pros and cons, check carefully all the requirements for the web portal to operate properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which is the best hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales representatives will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.