All web hosting plans have different features and offer different levels of resources. How do you select the right plan for you? Shared hosting plan is by far the most popular one as it is economical and suitable for most web sites. With thousands of web hosts competing for your business and endless offers of unlimited bandwidth and disk space, the new or less experienced webmaster will usually be tempted to go with the lowest priced hosting they can find. You can start with the cheapest plan but usually this will end with problems. Slow page loading, downtime and general poor performance. Often the cheapest hosting can be unreliable and will have very poor tech support. Purchasing cheap hosting from some web host you have never heard of before also involves some risk. Often these companies are here today and gone tomorrow. Also these businesses are trying to turn a profit in order to offer something too good to be true, they have to use cheap hardware and overload their servers with too many accounts in order to bring in enough money. We have all heard horror stories about someone's bad experience with some web hosting companies. So take our advice and spend a little extra, go with a reputable well-established company.
There are many things to consider when choosing the right plan, and this can often be a difficult choice even for experienced webmasters. Let us first consider the three main types of web hosting plans:
Shared Hosting (Standard):
As the name suggests, shared hosting - it is a number of hosting accounts located on one server, some of them share the same IP address (although a dedicated IP address is often available for an additional fee). These plans will always offer a specific set of features and will always have limits on resources. It is essential to know what features you need for your site and how demanding it can get in terms of the resources consumption. If you are not certain, it absolutely alright to start with a more limited plan and upgrading later after your site grows and gets more traffic. Just be sure that the plan you select offers the features your site requires. Some of the things you may need to consider: disk space, bandwidth, the number of hosted domains and possibly the number of subdomains, and parked domains, versions of PHP, MySQL, and Perl. Will you need a dedicated IP address? You may want to allow multiple FTP users or you may need to create a number of email addresses. Will you need MySQL or PostgreSQL databases? If so how many? These are specifications and limitations that will vary with different shared hosting plans. If you are just starting your first website and are not entirely sure what you need, then you may not need to be too concerned about these details yet - you can always upgrade later.
Business Hosting (Express):
Business SSD hosting represents the highest quality and most powerful hosting solution available without moving to a dedicated server. In terms of shared hosting, Business Hosting offered by STS is second to none. Our Business Hosting servers are very fast and limited to no more than 50 accounts on each server. This plan has no limits on: Hosted Domains / Parked Domains / Subdomains / FTP users / Databases / or Mail accounts. It also provides high priority support and much higher limits on outgoing email. To state it briefly, the Business plan we offer is a model of perfection in shared hosting plans.
