What Actually is Shared Web Hosting?

The most standard and frequently utilized sort of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It's a means to host your web portal without having to be much informed about programming and operating a server. In addition, it's also the most economical form of web hosting and it's very affordable for everyone. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name indicates, the shared hosting service is a kind of service where lots of customers share the system resources of the same hosting server. This signifies that all web server components such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are allotted among the customers whose accounts are on that very same web hosting server. This is typically made tenable by opening separate accounts for the separate customers and imposing some limits and usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are assigned so as to hinder the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overburdening. Usually, shared hosting users do not have full root access to the hosting server's configuration files, which principally signifies that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server aside from their own web hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may resort to are determined by the hosting provider that possesses the hosting server and by the particular web hosting plan. That predetermines the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers split among the users?

Web hosting providers that furnish shared hosting solutions usually have various website hosting plans. Those plans include diverse quotas of web hosting features and specs, which in fact define the restrictions that a web hosting plan will include. The customer may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The website hosting plan will then define what restrictions the customer's account will involve, once created. The prices and the specifications of the web hosting packages are specified by the given hosting company. Depending on the policy of the corporation, the shared hosting solution falls into two categories - the free hosting service and the standard shared solution, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they actually depend on the business policy of the given provider and, of course, the demands of the given customer.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the normal shared hosting solution?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they include. Free web hosting vendors are not capable of maintaining an immense number of servers, hence, they plainly accommodate more customers on a single web server by decreasing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only if the web hosting servers are monitored and maintained properly, since the big number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash repeatedly. The majority of the free web hosting providers, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to stumble upon a free of charge web hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting companies normally offer free client support even to the free hosting users, since they want their websites to get bigger so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting plan, which includes more web hosting features. Such supplier, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free website hosting firms worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional shared hosting companies like us, are able to maintain many web hosting servers and so, we are able to provide much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that influences the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting solution, though, does not necessarily mean that this plan has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the actual service which you're getting. Moreover, we also offer a free extra with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free-of-charge themes. As a website hosting companie, we do care about our good name and that's why if you choose us, you can rest calm that you won't get tricked into purchasing a solution that you cannot actually make use of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting solution is best for those who want to host a standard website, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business develops, your web site will become more and more demanding. Therefore, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (a.k.a. a virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a website hosting distributor, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up relocating your domain manually to a separate provider, which can bring about website troubles and even extended downtime for your web portal. If you pick Mr. DavyHost as your website hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will spare you lots of troubles in the long run.