Quality Hosting

There are different types of hosting services suitable for different web sites in relation to the system resources or the hosting platform they need. To pick the most suitable hosting service for your site, you must judge what server-side software it demands, how many visits per day you expect at the start and in the long run, as well as any other special needs that may need to be fulfilled.

Shared web hosting - Positive Sides

The most relevant choice for small size websites with several hundred or a few thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this form of site hosting, each user pays only for their plan, which decreases the overall price per person markedly. There are various web hosting packages varying from one host to another, providing different amounts of data storage and web traffic, different e-mailbox account quotas and so on. The benefit is that you can order an account that will have the resources your web page indeed needs. You will not have to pay lots of cash for a package you will not make use of, or end up with a small size account that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at Geldbach Solutions GmbH, offer a huge choice of hosting plans appropriate for personal or small business websites that even provide pre-activated script-based platforms like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things easier. If you begin with a less powerful package and you demand more features, upgrading to a more feature-rich account involves only a click.

Shared website hosting - Weaknesses

A disadvantage of the shared hosting environment is that the web servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to activate new software. Specific sites, particularly online shops, require software applications to be available on the hosting server for them to work, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can activate only software applications that do not need complete root access.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For websites that require full root access, or if your portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of daily hits, what you require is a VPS or a dedicated server. A Virtual Private Server is a virtual imitation of a dedicated solution and it functions in absolutely the same way.

Virtual Web Servers

Both services generally include full root-level access and can be restarted via a software platform by the user, autonomously from the hosting supplier. Much like the shared web hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated web server packages include diverse characteristics based on what the hosting vendor has to offer. A private virtual server hosting package offers guaranteed server storage space, random access memory and central processing unit usage quotas that can at times be extended for short spans of time if there are available resources on the physical server. With a dedicated server, the only limitation is the hardware configuration it is using, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A Virtual Private Server is easier to cope with as it involves a virtualization software platform, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, examine statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such a solution would rather be resorted to by knowledgeable customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Nonetheless, some hosting suppliers provide managed dedicated web hosting services where they carry out dedicated server administration operations on behalf of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional feature.

Before You Select...

Selecting the top hosting plan is important as it can affect the proper work of a web site. Prior to settling on a plan, weigh the pros and cons, explore completely all the requirements for the web site to function properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which is the best hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or call us - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.