Turbo Server Option – If you really want to give your site an advantage over your competitors, you’ll definitely want to consider hosting your sites on our Turbo Servers. Why? They feature up to 20X faster page loads compared to competing Web Hosting services. Now that’s really fast! Just a few of the features that make our Turbo Servers perform so well are that they use a speed-enhanced, drop-in Apache alternative, host fewer users on each server and every user has more resources allocated to their Web Hosting account. Our Turbo Servers also include our exclusive PaKish Optimized tool that makes caching a breeze. You can read more about this tool below:

• PaKish Optimized Tool – Not only do we offer caching for Memcached, OPcache, and Turbo Cache on our Shared accounts so you get the fastest page load speeds, but our exclusive PaKish Optimized tool lets you setup these solutions with just 1-click so you get the easiest experience as well! Those other web hosts either don’t allow these caching solutions on their shared hosting servers or they are simply unable to. Not at PaKish! We actually give you our exclusive tool to help you set up caching for your sites! How do these caching solutions make your site load faster? By storing key components of your website in memory for faster retrieval each time your site is accessed by one of your website visitors. This prevents every piece of your website from having to load for each of your visitors. Your site is instead more readily available because key pieces of your website (broken down further below) can load faster:
• Memcached – Boosts the speed of your databases by keeping the most important pieces of your MySQL databases in memory for faster access when visiting your site.
• Turbo Cache – Makes it possible to load all the HTML content of your site without even having to run PHP!
• OPcache – Offers up to 50% faster PHP response times!
• Solid State Drives (SSDs) – Did you know that PaKish was one of the first hosts to offer solid-state drive web hosting? SSDs are included for free in our SwiftServer platform and feature up to 300% faster page loads compared to traditional hosting! Unlike those traditional hard disk drives that use spinning disks to access your data (think of a record player/turntable), Solid State Drives uses flash technology to access its data. Flash technology is more compact, lighter, and most importantly provides faster performance for your website.
• Choice Of Data Center Locations – While PaKish is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States, we know that your visitors may not be. You want to host your website as close to your visitors as possible to reduce latency, or the amount of time it takes your site’s data to reach your visitors. That’s why we offer data center options located around the globe! You can choose to host your site in the data center located closest to your visitors. That means you get all the PaKish speed features with the added benefit of reduced latency.
• Free Content Delivery Network – While you can choose your data center location at PaKish so your site is hosted as close as possible to the majority of your website visitors, you still want to cater to the rest of your visitors if they don’t live so close! That way ALL of your visitors can experience how fast your site loads. That’s why we’ve also included a free content delivery network (CDN) with your Web Hosting account. Our CDN automatically routes your traffic through its smart global network to automatically optimize the delivery of your site. How does it work? The CDN features a number of data centers located across the world. The CDN is able to create the fastest, most efficient data/website-delivery route from these data centers to your audience.
• Anycast DNS – When typing in a domain name into a web browser, traditional DNS works by translating that domain name into the IP address where that website can be found. The computer is connected with the web host and the website can be viewed once this IP address is located. The DNS record is located on a DNS server found in one location. For example, if you’re located in the United Kingdom, but your visitor is located in the United States, it can take some time for that DNS server and your visitor’s computer to communicate with each other. This can slow down how fast a web page loads. PaKish uses Anycast DNS because that resolves this issue. Instead of just one DNS location, Anycast DNS copies your DNS record on our network of global servers. This means that your DNS record is much closer to your visitors and Anycast can direct visitors to a DNS server located more closely to them. In short, Anycast DNS is another PaKish solution that can help your site load even faster for your visitors.

You may not be sure which plan to get started with. The good news is that our plans are completely scalable. That means that as your website grows, so can your hosting plan. Our team can help seamlessly move your sites and account into a higher resource Shared Hosting plan if you outgrow your existing plan. And if you happen to outgrow your Shared Hosting package, we’ll even help move you into one of our VPS Hosting or Dedicated Server solutions. The good news is that you can stick with A2 Hosting for the entire live cycle of your website. We’re excited to grow with you!

Get started now! You make amazing projects and need a Shared Hosting provider who can keep up. That’s PaKish! Trust us. We’ve been doing this since 2003. You’re going to absolutely love our service! We’re so confident of that fact, that we offer a Money-Back Guarantee. That means you can try us completely risk-free.  If you decide we’re not the right host for you (which won’t happen), we’ll give you a hassle-free refund! What are you waiting for? Give both your site and business the boosts they deserve! Choose PaKish!

While we recommend our Turbo servers to all users, we understand if you’re not quite ready for that level of service. To decide between our lower or middle-tier hosting packages, you will want to consider what your resource needs are. In particular, you will want to consider how many websites you plan on hosting on your package. If you plan on hosting more than 1-site, our middle-tier web hosting package should suit your needs quite well. If you only plan on hosting a single website, our lower-tier web hosting solution would be a good option for you.

Remember that our Web Hosting solutions are completely scalable. That means we’ll have a Web Hosting solution perfect for you even as your site and your resource needs grow.

Are you still not quite sure which Web Hosting package you should select? Just contact our Guru Crew’s Sales department. They’ll be more than happy to direct you to the appropriate Web Hosting solution!

Shared hosting is a perfect platform if you have modest website needs. In particular, this means if you are just starting a website, have a small business website or just run a website as a hobby with minimal resources needs. Shared web hosting is also s popular option if you run a simple blog or forum. In short, shared hosting is ideal if you have small website or a just getting started since it is a good learning environment to get your “feet wet” with a minimal investment.

Shared Hosting is also a popular option if you don’t quite know what sort of resources you need yet. You’ll be happy to learn that PaKish customers never pay account upgrade fees. That means you can upgrade to a larger Shared Hosting account or even move into a VPS or a Dedicated Server if you discover more server resources are needed than what is included with your Shared Hosting account. Of course, our 24/7/365 Guru Crew Support Team is standing by in case you have any questions about which web hosting plan you should choose.

Advantages of Shared Web Hosting

At PaKish, a key advantage of our Shared Web Hosting packages is obviously speed. However, the other pros of these plans include affordability and convenience. Our shared web hosting environment means we can offer reasonably priced web hosting plans because our customers are not only sharing server resources, but they are also spreading the cost of hardware, server maintenance, security updates, and other costs among the other customers hosted on the server. As a PaKish shared web hosting customer, you also do not have to worry about server uptime and technical support because that’s our job. That’s our expertise!

Our Shared Web Hosting packages each come with large amounts of resources like disk space, data transfer, and email accounts that are perfect for your personal and small business websites.  These are just a few of the reasons why we offer the best web hosting for small businesses and personal sites.

Possible Disadvantages of Shared Hosting

Please note that each account on a shared server does not feature root access. Users looking for administrative-level access to their server should consider using our VPS Hosting or Dedicated Server plans. Additionally, customers who have eCommerce sites or existing websites that receive a large number of visitors each month may want to use VPS Hosting as well. Otherwise, you’ll discover that PaKish’s Shared Hosting is an excellent solution for your website.