Shared Hosting Packages Explained

If you desire to create a website and make it visible to the whole world, it must be located on a web server. The name of this service is shared hosting.

Host your website at home or somewhere else

You could host your web site on your own computer at home or at work, on a personal computer which belongs to a pal of yours, and so on. If it is a site for experimenting purposes, there would be no real need for you to find a more powerful website hosting service than that. If you want to develop a real website, though, which will be visible to plenty of visitors and you want to make it dependable, you will also require a stable server on which you will host it.

Why do you need a server for your site?

When you own a site, it is hosted on a physical machine. That physical server has its own physical address known also as Internet Protocol address. Typing the IP address of the physical server in your web browser, though, is not the best and most appropriate way to open a website. That is how and why domains came into being and why you are in need of one for your site. Thus, to create your website, you need a domain name of your own and a web server to host your website on.

Hosting your website on your own

If you are an IT expert and understand how to manage a web hosting server, you can have a server of your very own and host your website on it. This will permit you to exercise full control over the physical machine, to implement server configuration modifications and to install software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the datacenter personnel. The disadvantage, though, is that you will need to ensure the accessibility of your website and to take care of all server maintenance procedures yourself. If you are making use of a licensed OS, you will also need to spend money on the license, which normally costs more if purchased for a whole server.

Using a hosting distributor

If you don't want to carry out server maintenance procedures, the most intelligent step to take is to register an account with a web hosting packages provider. These are firms that offer customers powerful servers with various hardware configurations in exchange for a certain tax. The servers are held in datacenters with special cooling and UPS systems to ensure continuous Internet access.

Varieties of web hosting services

The World Wide Web is a wide ocean and there are a plethora of providers offering various hosting services to the myriad of web site possessors out there. The hosting services range from free web hosting services, where you can host simple, HTML-based sites, to expensive dedicated web hosting services that can suck your monthly allowance dry. So, what hosting type answers your demands?

If you run a small or medium-sized site that has several hundred guests max, you could safely utilize a shared web hosting solution. Shared web hosting means that many web hosting accounts and web sites are hosted on one and the very same web hosting server, thus decreasing the price of the service. Shared web hosting accounts typically involve central processing unit, memory, web traffic and hosting server hard drive storage space usage quotas to make certain that the web sites hosted on the hosting server do not interfere with each other and do not use more system resources than they are allocated.

In case your website is more resource-swallowing, you should pick a virtual private servers hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated servers hosting solution. VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. It offers full root access, which enables you to implement server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared hosting web server. The virtual private servers also offer burstable RAM options. Separate RAM memory and CPU shares are allotted to each individual virtual private web hosting server, without anyone else using them. Typically there are other virtual private servers aside from yours that make use of the system resources of the physical machine, which could sometimes influence the overall performance, but in the majority of circumstances it's of no concern. Should the system resources of the private virtual hosting server, though, be insufficient for your needs, it is apparently time to switch to a dedicated hosting web server.

The dedicated servers is a physical machine that you lease, which is utilized just by you for your very own web site needs. No one else uses its system resources and you get full server root access, can select a hardware architecture in advance, apply upgrades at a later time and install RAM or hard disks. Unlike with the virtual private servers where virtualization is mostly at the Operating System level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated server you can update the kernel of the OS (usually Linux-based) too.

Find your hosting supplier

If you know what your web site is going to include, or if you have only a vague plan that has not completely evolved yet, your initial step towards the creation of your website should be to choose a hosting accounts provider. The wisest step to take is to discover a web hosting accounts provider that supplies a big array of website hosting services so that you do not have to switch hosting providers in case you first make use of a shared website hosting solution and then outgrow the shared web hosting resources and need to upgrade to a private virtual server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting server solution. We, for example, distribute modestly priced shared hosting plans, cut-rate OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based virtual server web hosting plans, semi-dedicated servers with their own web hosting Control Panel user interface and even dedicated web servers. We also offer free-of-charge extras - the shared web hosting affordable domain name if they are paid for on an annual basis, the more powerful private virtual web hosting server packages and dedicated web servers include a free domain reseller account and billing software should you wish to use them for reselling purposes. Add the first-class 24x7x365 customer service and you have all you would usually need. You could, undoubtedly, find other hosting service providers depending on what precisely you are looking for, by conducting an online search or by checking additional online web hosting reviews. The most reasonable choice, though, is a hosting services provider that is also a domain registrar and has servers in more than one country - both requirements satisfied by us. We have servers in the US, in the UK and in Australia, and offer a multitude of domain name extensions for registration.