Tag Archives: Forbes

If you’re not familiar with shared hosting vs. VPS hosting, or unmanaged vs. managed VPS, then you should read through this section. Keep in mind what your goal is with your website or websites, and why you need a virtual server. You may, in fact, need a dedicated server.

What Is VPS Hosting and When Do You Need It?

Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is an upgrade from shared hosting. With a shared hosting plan, your website lives on a server with many other websites. It’s an effective solution for small and new websites that don’t require a lot of resources for files or high traffic. On a VPS plan, you still share space with others, but you aren’t sharing resources—you have your own RAM, storage and CPU power.

When your site grows after years of content, ranking…

Hostwinds works well for resellers just getting started, but the more clients you sign on, the more you save. Hostwind offers the most affordable plan we found, which is perfect for resellers starting out.
Since all plans include unlimited bandwidth and disk space, a reseller who’s starting small can scale up their business easily. This is also great for agencies that want to find ways to provide more services to their clients: Hostwinds means you can add website hosting and design quickly and easily without breaking the bank.

Hostwinds offers products that make it easy for beginners such as cPanel, so you can manage your clients accounts with no interference, and Softaculous Auto-installer, so your reseller clients can install popular applications on their websites. Finally, you…

The benefits of a dedicated server may be worth the added cost, so you may not even need to read this section. If you’re on the fence and wondering whether it’s worth increasing your monthly cost tenfold, then you may want to keep reading to see what you’re getting with your own server.

Server Uptime Guarantee

You’ve likely seen web hosts boast 99.9% server uptime. That’s nearly 100%, so it has to be good, right? No server is going to be up 24/7. Web hosts have to perform maintenance, and so occasionally servers will be down. Hosts will tell you when the server will be down, and that downtime doesn’t count toward the guarantee.

However, if your server is down at any time other than the scheduled maintenance, you’re likely entitled to a portion of your monthly fee…

A2 Hosting specialises in offering its clients lightning-fast website speeds, which A2 states are up to 20 times faster than what you get with other hosting providers. Faster sites mean an improved website visitor experience as well as an SEO advantage.

A2 Hosting offers four different shared hosting plans: the Startup, Drive, Turbo Boost, and Turbo Max plans. To tap into A2’s fastest servers, you’ll need to go with either the Turbo Boost or Turbo Max plan.

A2 Hosting offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. What’s unique about A2, though, is that it provides a prorated guarantee after 30 days. That means you can get a refund for any unused service at any time.

You’ll also find it easy to add useful applications to your website thanks to the Softaculous auto-installer. Click on…

Namecheap offers three pricing tiers for its shared hosting plans, with all tiers offering unlimited bandwidth and free email accounts. Customers will also get one free SSL certificate installation.

Annual pricing plans include:

• Stellar: The basic tier starts at $1.08 and includes up to three websites and 20 GB SSD storage
• Stellar Plus: Starting at $1.88 per month, users can create unlimited websites, automatic backups and unlimited storage
• Stellar Business: Starting at $4.80 per month, users get unlimited websites, automatic backups and cloud storage and up to 50 GB of storage

Small businesses can choose to sign up for a plethora of dedicated, reseller, WordPress or VPS plans, too. If you’re unsure whether the plan you chose is…