What Precisely is Shared Website Hosting?

The most basic and commonly availed of variety of web hosting is the web hosting service. It represents a way to host your site without having to be much informed about programming and operating a hosting server. Besides, it's also the most economical type of hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. Nonetheless, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name suggests, the web hosting service is a type of service where multiple clients share the system reserves of one and the same web server. This goes to say that all server elements such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, NICs and so on, are apportioned among the customers whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is typically made achievable by setting up separate accounts for the different users and allocating certain limits and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are assigned in order to restrain the users from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, web hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the server's config files, which principally goes to say that they cannot access anything else on the server but their own hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may resort to are fixed by the web hosting provider that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting package. That causes the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Web hosting distributors that offer web hosting accounts typically have various website hosting packages. Those packages provide diverse amounts of website hosting resources and specs, which actually determine the restrictions that a website hosting package will include. The customer may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will suit him best. The website hosting package will then define what restrictions the user's account will have, once created. The prices and the specs of the web hosting packages are determined by the specific hosting corporation. Based on the politics of the corporation, the web hosting solution falls into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the standard shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to affirm, which one is better, since they are very different from one another and they really are subject to the business strategy of the given company and, of course, the demands of the particular user.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the standard web hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they contain. Free web hosting providers are not able to maintain a huge number of hosting servers, therefore, they just accommodate more customers on one single server by lowering the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are monitored and administered properly, since the big number of accounts may causer the web server to crash on a regular basis. Most of the free web hosting distributors, though, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's very hard to find a free of cost web hosting solution that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting companies normally provide free technical support even to the free website hosting customers, since they want their web pages to get bigger so that they eventually move to a paid hosting plan, which offers more hosting features. Such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free web hosting vendors in the world.

At the same time, traditional web hosting suppliers like us, may afford to keep plenty of hosting servers and so, we may afford to offer much more powerful website hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting plan, however, does not necessarily imply that this solution has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that corresponds to the concrete service which you're obtaining. What's more, we also give a free extra with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of gratis web page themes. As a website hosting provider, we do worry about our reputation and that's why if you select us, you can be confident that you won't get swindled into buying an account that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting service?

The web hosting service is best for individuals who want to host a basic web page, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a web hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business develops, your website will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to ultimately move to a more feature-rich hosting service like a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (a.k.a. a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting vendor, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up moving your domain manually to a different provider, which can bring about web site complications and even continuous downtime for your website. If you go with 04 Host as your web hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will save you lots of predicaments in the long run.