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An explanation of web site hosting

The most standard and universally used variety of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It represents a means to host your web site without having to understand much about programming and running a server. In addition, it's also the cheapest form of webspace hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared website hosting?

As the name denotes, the shared website hosting solution is a sort of service where plenty of customers share the system reserves of the same web server. This means that all web server constituents such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are apportioned among the clients whose accounts are on that very same hosting server. This is usually rendered tenable by setting up separate accounts for the separate clients and fixing certain limitations and quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are applied so as to restrain the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overburdening. Typically, shared hosting users do not have root access to the server's config files, which principally suggests that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server beside their own shared web hosting account. The web site hosting features that each account may avail of are fixed by the web hosting company that possesses the hosting server and by the given web hosting plan. That brings about the second important question:

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

Web hosting suppliers that supply shared website hosting accounts usually have diverse webspace hosting packages. Those packages involve diverse quotas of web space hosting resources and specifications, which in fact define the restrictions that a website hosting package will include. The user may choose between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what limitations the user's account will have, once set up. The costs and the specs of the web site hosting plans are set by the actual web hosting firm. Depending on the policy of the vendor, the shared web site hosting service can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the normal shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" distributors as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to announce, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they actually are determined by the business strategy of the given firm and, of course, the needs of the given customer.

What is the difference between the free of charge and the classic shared web site hosting service?

Of course, the essential difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they include. Free site hosting providers are not able to keep a big amount of web hosting servers, therefore, they simply accommodate more customers on one hosting server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web hosting servers are supervised and administered appropriately, since the enormous number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash repeatedly. The majority of the free webspace hosting suppliers, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to stumble upon a free web site hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting distributors usually provide free customer support even to the free webspace hosting users, since they want their web pages to enlarge so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which offers more web space hosting resources. Such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free web space hosting suppliers worldwide.

At the same time, traditional shared web hosting distributors such as Exclusive Hosting, for example, are able to keep a lot of web servers and so, they may afford to provide much more powerful web site hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a site hosting package, though, does not necessarily denote that this package 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. The first-rate hosting distributors that have been around for a long time are presenting their price tags and plan specs in an objective manner, so that the customer may acquainted with what exactly he is obtaining. Moreover, some of them provide a free extra with the web space hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of complimentary web templates that are provided by 'Exclusive Hosting'. Such website hosting vendors do worry about their good name and that is the reason why if you choose them, you can rest assured that you won't get beguiled into buying a solution that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I expect from a shared web page hosting solution?

The shared web hosting service is best for those who are looking to host an average web page, which is going to use a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business expands, your site will become more and more demanding. Therefore, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. Therefore, when picking a site hosting company, you should also consider how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a different provider, which can bring about website problems and even prolonged downtime for your website. So, selecting a hosting distributor such as 'Exclusive Hosting', which can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is vital and will save you lots of annoyances in the future.