What Exactly is Shared Website Hosting?

The most elemental and commonly used form of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It's a way to host your web site without having to be much informed about programming and administrating a hosting server. In addition to that, it's also the most inexpensive type of website hosting and it's indeed affordable for anybody. Nonetheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name implies, the shared hosting solution is a sort of service where multiple users share the system resources of the same web server. This goes to say that all web hosting server ingredients such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are split among the users whose accounts are on that very same web server. This is typically made achievable by creating separate accounts for the different customers and assigning specific restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are allocated so as to prevent the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overburdening. Usually, shared hosting users do not have complete root-level access to the web hosting server's config files, which principally means that they cannot access anything else on the web server but their own personal website hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are set by the hosting company that owns the hosting server and by the given website hosting package. That brings on the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Web hosting vendors that furnish shared hosting packages typically have diverse website hosting packages. Those packages contain diverse amounts of website hosting features and specs, which actually determine the limitations that a hosting plan will include. The user may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what restrictions the user's account will involve, once opened. The costs and the specs of the web hosting packages are defined by the particular hosting vendor. Based on the politics of the provider, the shared hosting solution falls into two groups - the free hosting solution and the common shared solution, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" sellers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to tell, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they actually are dependent on the marketing strategy of the specific supplier and, of course, the needs of the particular client.

What is the difference between the free and the typical shared hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they involve. Free website hosting corporations are not capable of maintaining a big amount of hosting servers, therefore, they simply host more users on one single server by reducing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only on condition that the web servers are supervised and handled properly, because the huge number of accounts may make the web server crash on a regular basis. The majority of the free website hosting companies, though, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's quite difficult to come across a free of cost web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting distributors typically provide free technical support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their sites to grow bigger so that they eventually migrate to a paid web hosting account, which includes more web hosting features. Such corporation, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and oldest free hosting providers worldwide.

At the same time, traditional shared hosting distributors like us, may afford to maintain a lot of web servers and hence, we may afford to provide much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting account, though, does not automatically signify that this solution has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that corresponds to the real service which you're receiving. Additionally, we also provide a free extra with the web hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of fee-free web page themes. As a website hosting vendor, we do worry about our good name and that's why if you go with us, you can be assured that you won't get duped into buying an account that you cannot actually make use of.

What should I expect from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting solution is best for persons who desire to host a basic website, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business gets bigger, your site will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more powerful website hosting service like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS hosting (a.k.a. a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when selecting a web hosting provider, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a separate provider, which can create website predicaments and even continuous downtime for your web page. If you select WebHostBear as your website hosting company, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will save you lots of predicaments in the future.