Choosing a website hosting is a simple task, if you prepare for its solution in advance and make a plan for finding the best option. It should include items such as:
- technical and consumer characteristics of the offer;
- assessment of their own capabilities, user and financial;
- site objectives, plans for its development and expansion.
The main technical indicators will be server capacities transmitted under for user sites.
The main types of resources:
- Traffic
- RAM.
- Disk space, volume.
The tariff should be evaluated not only from the point of view of sufficiency of resources at the time of launching the site, but also in the future. It is also important to analyze the principle of power transfer. It differs for different types of hosting rentals. This is the main fundamental difference between the popular types of hosting.
Differences between VPS and shared hosting sites
- On VPS, resources are transferred to the user in a fixed amount, only he can use them, for his projects. Shared hosting is characterized by dividing the entire physical capacity of the server into all tenants. When the server is overloaded with large, complex projects, the speed of sites can significantly decrease, blockages can occur.
- Shared hosting is cheaper than VPS. The most inexpensive virtual servers (as VPS hosting for sites are also called) are at least 5 times more expensive than virtual hosting. In addition, affordable VPSs require serious knowledge and skills from webmasters, as their support is minimal or absent.
- To implement the tasks of complex sites hosted on VPS, a good level of webmaster training is required: knowledge of programming elements, web design, layout, and the ability to administer the system. Shared hosting is more suitable for beginners.
Other user specifications
In addition to support and the ability to independently administer hosting, when choosing, you should pay attention to:
- Server OS, the possibility of its coordination, interaction with the OS of the engines on which the site operates;
- DB, their number, versions;
- programming languages, versions;
- number of domains, subdomains, mailboxes;
- installed software, other scripts.
Additional aspects of choice
Assess the quality and prospects of choice will allow:
- price (it should be located in the middle value segment);
- reviews, previews, chatting on webmaster forums;
- the presence of a test period. Some providers offer a preferential (or free) 7-day period, which allows you to evaluate the quality of hosting and its compliance with user requests.