Shared Web Hosting Description

The most principal and regularly utilized sort of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your web site without having to know much about programming and managing a hosting server. Moreover, it's also the most economical form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name implies, the shared hosting service is a type of service where multiple users share the reserves of one and the same web hosting server. This signifies that all web server components such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, NICs etc. are shared among the customers whose accounts are on that same server. This is normally rendered feasible by creating different accounts for the different clients and setting specific limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are applied so as to restrain the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Usually, shared hosting users do not have complete root-level access to the hosting server's configuration files, which essentially indicates that they do not have access to anything else on the web server apart from their very own hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may use are fixed by the hosting vendor that possesses the web server and by the given website hosting package. That entails the second essential question:

How are the shared web hosting servers split among the customers?

Hosting companies that deliver shared hosting packages typically have different web hosting plans. Those packages involve different quotas of web hosting resources and specifications, which in fact set the limits that a website hosting package will have. The customer may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what restrictions the customer's account will include, once opened. The prices and the features of the website hosting plans are defined by the given web hosting supplier. Depending on the politics of the supplier, the shared hosting solution can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting service and the popular shared solution, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" corporations as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to say, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they indeed depend on the marketing tactics of the given provider and, of course, the needs of the given customer.

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

Of course, the main difference between the free of charge and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they involve. Free website hosting providers are not able to keep a great number of web hosting servers, therefore, they merely accommodate more users on one single hosting server by lowering the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only on condition that the servers are kept under surveillance and administered properly, since the huge number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash frequently. Most of the free website hosting firms, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's very tough to find a free of cost website hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting firms usually offer free customer support even to the free website hosting clients, because they want their sites to enlarge so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting plan, which includes more website hosting resources. Such supplier, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free hosting providers worldwide.

At the same time, established shared hosting firms like us, may afford to keep plenty of hosting servers and therefore, we are able to provide much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that affects the pricing of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a website hosting solution, however, does not automatically denote that this account has a better quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the concrete service which you're getting. In addition, we also give a free bonus with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free-of-charge site themes. As a hosting firm, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you select us, you can be confident that you won't get tricked into buying a service that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I expect from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting service is best for individuals who wish to host a standard website, which is going to use a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (aka a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when selecting a web hosting vendor, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can create web site predicaments and even extended downtime for your web site. If you select Surver Space as your web hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is vital and will spare you a lot of inconveniences in the long run.