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Shared Web Hosting Description
The most elemental and frequently used type of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It constitutes a means to host your web site without having to know much about programming and handling a server. Additionally, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's very affordable for everyone. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?
What is shared hosting?
As the name designates, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where plenty of users share the system resources of the same web hosting server. This suggests that all web server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards etc. are divided among the users whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly made tenable by setting up different accounts for the different clients and allocating given limitations and quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are allocated in order to hinder the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the server from overburdening. Typically, shared hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the server's configuration files, which primarily implies that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server aside from their own personal web hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may resort to are set by the hosting distributor that possesses the web server and by the particular web hosting package. That leads up to the second important question:
How are the shared hosting web servers shared among the customers?
Hosting providers that deliver shared hosting plans typically have different website hosting packages. Those plans include different quotas of website hosting resources and specs, which in fact fix the limits that a hosting plan will have. The user may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will fit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what restrictions the client's account will include, once opened. The prices and the features of the website hosting packages are fixed by the given web hosting vendor. Based on the policy of the supplier, the shared hosting service can be divided into two types - the free hosting solution and the common shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to allege, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from one another and they really are dependent on the business policy of the given firm and, of course, the requirements of the specific client.
What is the contrast between the free of cost and the classic shared hosting service?
Of course, the essential difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they provide. Free web hosting suppliers are not able to keep a big amount of servers, therefore, they plainly accommodate more clients on one web hosting server by reducing the amount of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the servers are supervised and administered properly, because the great amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash repeatedly. The majority of the free web hosting providers, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite difficult to come across a free website hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting corporations typically offer free client support even to the free web hosting clients, since they want their websites to grow so that they eventually upgrade to a paid website hosting account, which includes more web hosting features. One such distributor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and eldest free website hosting firms in the world.
At the same time, traditional shared hosting distributors such as us, may afford to keep a lot of servers and therefore, we are able to offer much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a website hosting package, though, does not automatically imply that this account has a finer quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the actual service which you're getting. In addition, we also give a free extra with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of cost-free site themes. As a website hosting distributor, we do worry about our good name and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest confident that you won't get hoaxed into buying a plan that you cannot actually make use of.
What should I expect from a shared hosting service?
The shared hosting solution is best for those who want to host a normal web page, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (aka a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when picking a hosting provider, you should also think about scalability, otherwise you might end up migrating your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can cause web site predicaments and even prolonged downtime for your web portal. If you pick SpaceNET Hosting as your hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow, is vital and will spare you a lot of nuisances in the future.