3.16.2012

Needing To Learn About High Capacity Hosting

By Manish Agarwal


If you have a website that gets a great number of daily visitors and it has many specific technical configurations, you may well be wondering if you need high capacity web hosting instead of a regular shared web hosting plan. You could be thinking that a high capacity plan could offer you a faster connection for your customers plus much more disk space. Perhaps you are questioning if choosing this type of web host would be the best idea for the website.

The best way to know if you need a high capacity hosting plan's to consider the bandwidth of one's current plan and how well your site functions at that bandwidth. Not sure what bandwidth is? A great way to understand bandwidth is to think of it as a pipe. Information from the website flows through that pipe to customers. Your pipe needs to be wide enough to allow the best number of customers to easily come and go from your website. If you have more customers than your pipe are equipped for, the pipe will get supported and customers will not be able to group your site very well or very quickly. If this is an issue for you (otherwise you anticipate it to be an issue soon), you may need more pipes. In other words, you need more bandwidth--and a higher capacity service provider.

First of all, there are many types of web hosting packages that are available through various hosting company providers that are labeled as high capacity. So, each service provider has a different concept of what high capacity hosting actually is. For many providers, all it takes to make a regular hosting plan in to a high capacity plan is to increase the storage space to between 500 MB to 2 GB and also to increase the bandwidth up to 10 GB to 50 GB a month. They may add more FTP accounts and SQL databases. Additionally it is common for these web hosts to boost the number of email lists, sub-domains, parked domains, and more in their high capacity packages.

Other websites use a different concept of what high capacity hosting ought to be. These sites believe that regular shared web hosting may not be suitable for larger and busier websites. But, as opposed to insisting upon a dedicated server situation (which may be very costly and difficult to manage), these hosts offer a a special high capacity hosting by which certain servers are used by under twenty accounts. The host also increases the disk space and bandwidth for every account. This type of package does cost more than regular shared hosting packages; however, it allows webmasters to achieve the easy management of a shared server using the extra resources of a high capacity package.

You can, of course, choose to go with the ultimate type of high capacity web host plan--a dedicated server. But, diets are best only for the largest and busiest websites because they are quite expensive and because they require a good deal of technical knowledge.




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