What Indeed is Shared Hosting

You have a conception that you wish to turn into a website? Your very first move should be to preserve your enthusiasm and find a place for your site on the web so that it will be always visible to the whole world.

Where should you host your website?

Because the number of sites on the web has grown rapidly in the last couple of years, the need for web hosting services has also lead to the birth of innumerable shared hosting companies. These are firms that offer you space for your own website on their web servers.

Kinds of hosting services

The scope of web hosting services fluctuates hugely, so do the needs of the web site owners. The most basic hosting type is the small-scale file hosting solution, where files can be uploaded using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web interface. A lot of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide this service for free. Personal web page proprietors and companies can also get hosting services from various web hosts. Personal website hosting services are usually either free, ad-supported, or cheap. Business website hosting services typically are more expensive, but owing to the great competition on the market, a growing number of hosting providers, like us at WebHostBear, provide business website hosting services at lowered prices and with flexible invoicing intervals.

Types of sites and their requirements

The charge-free website hosting solution is usually sufficient for personal web sites such as portfolios or online diaries. A more resource-swallowing website, such as an online community website or a corporate website, needs a more powerful hosting platform that provides database support and web application development platforms (for example PHP). If you wish to establish an e-commerce site, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the hosting vendor of your choosing. These days, SSL certificates are furnished by most web hosting vendors.

The web hosting Control Panel

The web hosting solutions provider normally also offers a hosting Control Panel graphical user interface for handling your web site files, email addresses, email aliases, domains, DNS records, etc.

Service uptime

When choosing a hosting packages provider, website accessibility is a very vital criterion. The accessibility of a web site is measured on a yearly basis by taking into consideration the time when the web site is publicly accessible and reachable online. Network and service uptime guarantees, therefore, should be mindfully considered when ordering a hosting plan. The best thing to do is re-examine the service-level agreements and the Terms of Service of the hosting packages provider of your choice in advance. Finding online reviews from existing clients is also a very good step before you choose to register.

The shared web hosting platform

The most widely used and modestly priced type of web hosting service is the shared web hosting solution. It includes 24/7 support, which is an enormous plus for users who do not wish to cope with server maintenance tasks, but could also hamper clients who wish to exercise more authority over the web server. For such clients, a virtual private servers or a dedicated servers would be more suitable. Most standard apps and scripts work fine on a shared hosting web server. Additionally, the shared web hosting solution is more affordably priced than other kinds of web hosting solutions, such as the dedicated servers hosting, because the hosting accounts provider divides the shared server among plenty of users. The shared hosting solution usually involves resource usage limits that guarantee that the separate users do not interfere with each other and that the server remains stable.

Administering your shared website hosting account

Shared web hosting packages normally include a web-based Control Panel GUI, like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, etc. The majority of the big web hosts, again like us at WebHostBear, use their own personal custom-developed hosting Control Panel.

Server maintenance

With the shared website hosting solution, the service provider is responsible for managing the web and mail servers, for installing server software, software updates and patches, and for providing tech support to its customers. The majority of web servers are based on the Linux Operating System. The web hosting vendor's system administrators are in charge of keeping the Operating System up to date, unless you have a dedicated hosting web server and full root access.