MaximumASP, a shared and virtual dedicated hosting provider, declared that it has upgraded its Windows virtual dedicated plans. New plans have doubled allocated amounts of guaranteed RAM, moreover at no extra cost. There are two plans to choose. Plan A offers 768MB RAM and 5GB storage with no set-up fees and its price starts at $69 a month. Plan B offers 1.5GB RAM and 10GB storage and costs $99 a month.

From shared hosting to virtual private servers to dedicated servers, MaximumASP offers scalable services that help clients to grow their businesses. The company’s hosting services leverage Microsoft technologies and are supported by the highly trained staff. The company hosts more than 44,000 domains in more than 60 countries all over the world.

Inexpensive web hosting is the by-product of the commoditization of computer and networking hardware and it is making possible some amazingly cheap web hosting options for small and medium businesses as well as individuals.

Swim With The Big Fish

Inexpensive web hosting takes place on a shared server and is also known as “virtual hosting.” It allows small businesses to present themselves online in a manner virtually indistinguishable from the major online players.

The primary advantage of shared web hosting is that you don’t have to fork over big money to pay for a dedicated server, networking hardware, and web site development when you are just getting your business off the ground.

Instead, you can realize very inexpensive web hosting by sharing these resources with other small and medium sized web sites. You save money by spreading the infrastructure costs among them all.

Best of all, your visitors and customers won’t notice any difference between your site and a major high volume web site with its own dedicated servers and other resources.

Balanced Performance

The way this works is that your web host will monitor and balance the server loads and transaction volumes across all the sites using shared web hosting services to ensure optimal, balanced performance for everyone.

That is, if they know what they’re doing…

Server resource balancing is not rocket science and most well established web hosting companies do it well. However, because web hosting costs are continually falling, the web site hosting industry is booming and there are a lot of new, inexperienced players entering the field in the hope of becoming the next big web hosting company with TV commercials of Super Bowl proportions.

Top Web Hosts

The reality, however, is that some web hosting companies know what they are doing and some do not. In our Top Hosts section you’ll find a list of web hosts who provide very reliable, yet inexpensive web hosting.

At Web-Host-Watch we evaluate the performance of a large number of web hosting companies. We’ve visited their hosted websites at all hours of the day and night, on different days of the week, and during peak shopping seasons.

Most of the web hosts we look at fall down in one or more key areas of service from time to time. But our Top Web Hosts all performed admirably, consistently, and over a long period of time.

We’ve categorized them according to their individual strengths to help you find the one that best matches your requirements whether you need dedicated or shared web hosting services.