What Precisely is Shared Hosting?

The most fundamental and frequently utilized form of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It represents a way to host your website without having to know much about programming and running a web hosting server. Moreover, it's also the cheapest type of web hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Still, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name denotes, the shared hosting service is a kind of service where a lot of users share the system reserves of the same server. This implies that all hosting server components such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are split among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly rendered possible by setting up different accounts for the different users and fixing specific restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are assigned in order to prevent the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Typically, shared hosting customers do not have complete root access to the hosting server's configuration files, which principally goes to say that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server apart from their own personal hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are determined by the hosting vendor that owns the web hosting server and by the respective web hosting package. That gives rise to the second essential question:

How are the shared web hosting servers split among the customers?

Web hosting distributors that provide shared hosting plans usually have various web hosting packages. Those plans provide different amounts of web hosting features and specifications, which actually set the restrictions that a website hosting account will have. The customer may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The website hosting plan will then define what restrictions the customer's account will have, once set up. The prices and the specs of the hosting packages are determined by the given hosting company. Based on the policy of the vendor, the shared hosting service can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the popular shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they really are dependent on the business strategy of the specific supplier and, of course, the requirements of the particular customer.

What is the distinction between the free of charge and the popular shared hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they offer. Free website hosting firms are not able to maintain a great amount of hosting servers, hence, they merely host more customers on a single server by reducing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only on condition that the web hosting servers are monitored and administered properly, since the great amount of accounts may make the web hosting server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free website hosting providers, though, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to stumble upon a free web hosting solution that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting corporations usually provide free technical support even to the free website hosting clients, since they want their web pages to enlarge so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which offers more web hosting resources. Such vendor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free web hosting corporations in the world.

On the other hand, established shared hosting firms like us, may afford to maintain lots of web servers and so, we may afford to provide much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that influences the cost of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a website hosting plan, though, does not necessarily imply that this plan has a finer quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the concrete service which you're receiving. In addition, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of charge-free web page themes. As a web hosting provider, we do care about our good name and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest calm that you won't get beguiled into buying a solution that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting solution is best for persons who are looking to host an average web portal, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business grows, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to ultimately move to a more powerful web hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS hosting (aka a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when picking a web hosting company, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up relocating your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can cause website complications and even extended downtime for your web page. If you select Web Hosting Services as your hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will save you a lot of frustrations in the future.