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What Exactly is Shared Hosting?
The most archetypal and popularly availed of variety of web hosting is the website hosting service. It's a way to host your web portal without having to understand much about programming and managing a hosting server. Furthermore, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's in fact affordable for everybody. Still, what is website hosting?
What is website hosting?
As the name signifies, the website hosting service is a kind of service where lots of clients share the reserves of the same web server. This signifies that all web hosting server ingredients like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, NICs and so on, are apportioned among the customers whose accounts are on that very same web hosting server. This is typically rendered feasible by opening separate accounts for the different customers and appointing given limits and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are appointed so as to restrain the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overburdening. Normally, website hosting users do not have complete root-level access to the web hosting server's configuration files, which basically suggests that they cannot access anything else on the web server aside from their own website page hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may use are set by the web hosting corporation that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting package. That entails the second vital question:
How are the shared web hosting servers divided among the customers?
Hosting providers that offer website hosting accounts normally have diverse web hosting plans. Those packages provide different amounts of web hosting features and specs, which actually set the limitations that a website hosting package will have. The customer may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what limits the user's account will have, once opened. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting plans are chosen by the actual web hosting corporation. Depending on the policy of the firm, the website hosting solution falls into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the typical shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" retailers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to allege, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they actually are dependent on the marketing policy of the specific company and, of course, the needs of the particular client.
What is the contrast between the free and the classic website hosting solution?
Of course, the major difference between the free of charge and the paid service is in the amount of features that they provide. Free website hosting companies are not able to keep a big amount of hosting servers, hence, they simply host more clients on one single web hosting server by reducing the amount of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the servers are monitored and maintained appropriately, because the big amount of accounts may cause the server to crash regularly. The majority of the free website hosting distributors, though, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite hard to find a free of charge website hosting service that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting vendors commonly offer free client support even to the free web hosting users, since they want their sites to grow so that they eventually migrate to a paid website hosting plan, which offers more hosting resources. Such provider, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free website hosting suppliers worldwide.
On the other hand, traditional website hosting corporations like us, may afford to keep many hosting servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting service, though, does not necessarily signify that this solution has a better quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that matches the real service which you're obtaining. Moreover, we also provide a free bonus with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of cost-free web design layouts. As a web hosting provider, we do care about our good name and that is the reason why if you go with us, you can be certain that you won't get duped into paying for a plan that you cannot in fact make use of.
What should I anticipate from a website hosting service?
The website hosting solution is best for people who would like to host an average web site, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a website hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business gets bigger, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting service like a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (a.k.a. a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. So, when choosing a web hosting company, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up relocating your domain manually to a separate provider, which can create website complications and even prolonged downtime for your web page. If you pick Start Hosts as your website hosting company, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is crucial and will save you a lot of annoyances in the future.