Plan for choosing the best hosting sites

The choice of hosting sites is a simple task if you prepare for its decision in advance and make a plan for finding the best option. It should include such items as:

• Technical and consumer characteristics of the offer;
• Assessment of own capabilities, user and financial;
• Tasks of the site, plans for its development and expansion.

The main technical indicators will be the server capacity transferred for hosting the user's sites.

Main types of resources:

1. Traffic.
2. RAM.
3. Disk space, volume.

Tariff should be evaluated not only in terms of the sufficiency of resources at the time of launch of the site, but also in the future. It is also important to analyze the principle of capacity transfer. Different types of rental hosting it is different. This is the main difference in principle between popular types of hosting.

Differences between VPS and virtual hosting sites

1. On VPS resources are transferred to the user in a fixed amount, they can only be used by him, under his projects. For virtual hosting is characteristic of the division of the entire physical capacity of the server to all tenants. When the server is overloaded with large, complex projects, the speed of the sites can significantly decrease, and locks may occur.
2. Virtual hosting is cheaper than VPS. The most inexpensive virtual servers (also called VPS hosting sites) are at least 5 times more expensive than virtual hosting. In addition, VPS with a democratic price require serious knowledge and skills from webmasters, as support for them is minimal or absent.
3. To implement the tasks of complex sites hosted on VPS, you need a good level of preparation for the webmaster: knowledge of programming elements, web design, layout, and the ability to administer the system. Virtual 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:

• OS server, the possibility of its coordination, interaction with OS 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:

• Price (it should be located in the average value segment);
• Reviews, previews, communication on the forums of webmasters;
• Availability of a test period. Some providers offer a preferential (or free) 7-day period that allows you to evaluate the quality of the hosting and its compliance with the user's requests.