What is Shared Website Hosting?
The most fundamental and frequently availed of kind of web hosting is the hosting solution. It represents a means to host your web page without having to know much about programming and managing a web hosting server. Furthermore, it's also the most economical form of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. However, what is hosting?
What is hosting?
As the name hints, the hosting service is a sort of service where a lot of customers share the reserves of one and the same server. This denotes that all server ingredients such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards etc. are distributed among the customers whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is usually made achievable by opening separate accounts for the different clients and imposing specific limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limits are allocated so as to restrain the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overburdening. Normally, hosting customers do not have full root access to the hosting server's config files, which basically indicates that they cannot access anything else on the web server beside their own personal web hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may avail of are determined by the hosting distributor that possesses the web hosting server and by the given website hosting plan. That leads to the second important question:
How are the shared hosting web servers split among the customers?
Web hosting providers that distribute hosting services usually have diverse website hosting packages. Those plans offer diverse quotas of website hosting resources and specifications, which in fact define the restrictions that a web hosting plan will have. The client may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The web hosting plan will then determine what limits the customer's account will include, once set up. The costs and the features of the website hosting plans are fixed by the given hosting supplier. Based on the policy of the company, the hosting solution falls into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the typical shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to judge, which one is better, since they are very different from one another and they indeed are subject to the business policy of the particular supplier and, of course, the demands of the given client.
What is the distinction between the free of cost and the typical hosting service?
Of course, the principal difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they contain. Free website hosting suppliers are not capable of keeping a great number of servers, therefore, they merely host more customers on a single web server by decreasing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web servers are monitored and tackled appropriately, because the huge number of accounts may causer the web server to crash again and again. Most of the free website hosting firms, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very hard to discover a free of charge hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting suppliers normally provide free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, since they want their web portals to grow so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid hosting plan, which offers more hosting features. One such company, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and oldest free hosting providers in the world.
At the same time, established hosting companies like us, are able to keep many web hosting servers and as a result, we are able to provide much more feature-rich hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting plan, however, does not necessarily signify that this solution has a finer quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're receiving. What's more, we also offer a free extra with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of fee-free web design layouts. As a hosting vendor, we do care about our reputation and that's why if you select us, you can be calm that you won't get hoaxed into purchasing a solution that you cannot actually utilize.
What should I anticipate from a hosting solution?
The hosting solution is best for individuals who wish to host a normal web portal, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, though, that a hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business grows, your website will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated packages, a VPS (a.k.a. a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. So, when choosing a website hosting supplier, you should also think about scalability, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can bring about site predicaments and even prolonged downtime for your web page. If you go with G-STARTUP as your web hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is vital and will save you a lot of hassles in the future.
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