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Shared Website Hosting Explanation

The most primary and universally used form of web hosting is the web hosting solution. It constitutes a way to host your web site without having to understand much about programming and administering a hosting server. Additionally, it's also the most inexpensive form of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. However, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

Regular
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
$8.33 / month
Deluxe
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
$12.50 / month
 

As the name designates, the web hosting service is a sort of service where a lot of clients share the reserves of one and the same web hosting server. This means that all hosting server constituents such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are allocated among the customers whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is usually made attainable by creating separate accounts for the separate clients and fixing some limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are applied so as to restrain the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overloading. Typically, web hosting users do not have root-level access to the hosting server's configuration files, which principally denotes that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server beside their own website hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are determined by the hosting distributor that possesses the server and by the respective website hosting plan. That gives rise to the second important question:

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

Web hosting providers that provide web hosting packages commonly have diverse web hosting plans. Those packages offer diverse quotas of web hosting resources and specifications, which in fact determine the limits that a web hosting account will include. The customer may pick between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will suit him best. The website hosting package will then define what limits the user's account will include, once set up. The prices and the features of the web hosting packages are defined by the specific hosting distributor. Based on the politics of the provider, the web hosting solution can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the popular shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" wholesalers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to allege, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are dependent on the marketing tactics of the particular distributor and, of course, the requirements of the particular user.

What is the contrast between the free and the normal web hosting solution?

Of course, the major difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they offer. Free web hosting companies are not able to keep a great number of web servers, hence, they just accommodate more clients on a single server by decreasing the amount of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the servers are monitored and administered properly, because the large amount of accounts may make the web server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free website hosting distributors, though, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite tough to come across a free of cost website hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting companies commonly offer free client support even to the free web hosting users, since they want their web sites to grow so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting package, which offers more web hosting resources. One such supplier, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free web hosting vendors worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional web hosting companies such as us, are able to keep multiple web hosting servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a hosting plan, though, does not automatically denote that this solution has a better quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the actual service which you're getting. Moreover, we also give a free bonus with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of charge-free site themes. As a web hosting distributor, we do look after our good name and this is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest assured that you won't get duped into purchasing a plan that you cannot actually make use of.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting solution?

The web hosting solution is best for individuals who desire to host a standard web portal, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a web hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more feature-rich web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (a.k.a. a virtual server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when picking a website hosting supplier, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain manually to a separate vendor, which can create website predicaments and even extended downtime for your website. If you select HOSTROBO as your website hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will save you a lot of frustrations in the future.