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What In Fact is Shared Website Hosting?

The most standard and regularly used kind of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your site without having to be much informed about programming and managing a web server. In addition to this, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's quite affordable for everyone. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

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As the name implies, the shared hosting service is a sort of service where many users share the resources of one and the same hosting server. This denotes that all web server elements like CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are split among the clients whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mainly rendered feasible by creating separate accounts for the different clients and assigning given limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are imposed so as to restrain the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the server from overburdening. Usually, shared hosting users do not have root access to the web hosting server's config files, which principally means that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server apart from their very own web hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may resort to are fixed by the hosting provider that possesses the web server and by the particular website hosting package. That entails the second essential question:

How are the shared hosting servers split among the clients?

Hosting distributors that offer shared hosting services normally have various website hosting plans. Those plans include different amounts of website hosting resources and specs, which in fact determine the limits that a website hosting package will include. The customer may select between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The web hosting package will then define what restrictions the user's account will have, once opened. The costs and the specifications of the website hosting packages are fixed by the particular hosting firm. Based on the politics of the distributor, the shared hosting service falls into 2 types - the free hosting service and the common shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to judge, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they indeed are subject to the business strategy of the given distributor and, of course, the demands of the particular customer.

What is the distinction between the free and the popular shared hosting solution?

Of course, the primary difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they offer. Free website hosting suppliers are not able to maintain an immense number of web hosting servers, therefore, they simply host more clients on one single hosting server by lowering the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only on condition that the web hosting servers are kept under surveillance and tackled appropriately, since the large amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash again and again. Most of the free web hosting suppliers, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite hard to find a free website hosting service that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting firms usually provide free client support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their web portals to get bigger so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which offers more website hosting features. One such firm, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free web hosting companies worldwide.

On the other hand, established shared hosting providers like us, are able to maintain a lot of web servers and therefore, we may afford to provide much more powerful website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a hosting solution, however, does not automatically imply that this plan has a better quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the real service which you're receiving. Also, we also offer a free extra with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of free skins. As a web hosting corporation, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you go with us, you can be assured that you won't get deluded into purchasing a plan that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting service is best for persons who are looking to host a normal web portal, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more powerful web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (also known as a virtual private web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when picking a hosting vendor, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate vendor, which can cause website problems and even extended downtime for your website. If you go with 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 bigger, is vital and will spare you lots of problems in the future.