Shared Hosting Definition

Shared hosting is a service that hosting corporations provide so that you can put your website on the World Wide Web.

How can people check out your site?

When you make a site and you want other persons to notice it, you will need to copy (or upload) it to a hosting server. If you attempt to render the website discoverable online by shared hosting it on your own personal computer, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why website hosting services came into being.

How does shared hosting work?

Hosting firms provide you with disk drive storage space for your website on their high-end computers (hosting servers) and ensure continuous website availability. When somebody writes your web address (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the web server where they can see the content of your site.

Types of web hosting

With the progress of web technologies, several types of web hosting services have emerged to answer the various expectations of web site proprietors, including shared website hosting services, VPS hosting services and dedicated hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared web hosting is the most common form of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where one single hosting server is divided among numerous customers who are limited by the CPU, traffic and web server storage space quotas that they have been apportioned. This form of web hosting is generally less expensive - you don't need to buy the whole hosting server upfront, since it is divided between many web hosting clients, and the hosting company can afford to offer much cheaper prices. It is also easier to use - the server is pre-installed with all the required software and the hosting solutions provider takes care of all server maintenance tasks and security updates for you.

The weak side of the shared hosting solution is that you share the hosting server's resources with other web hosting account holders and if a given website becomes very busy it may affect (and slow down) all the other websites on that web hosting server, but the majority of hosting service providers, including us at Consultingforge SL, have security platforms at work that hinder that from occurring.

A description of a hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most widely used form of web hosting, the majority of web hosting suppliers and web hosting clients simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an extensive rivalry on the web hosting market, the majority of hosting vendors strive to offer affordable prices and gifts with their hosting services. We, for example, provide different web hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and annual, depending on your resources. If you pick the annual invoicing cycle, you will receive a bonus - one free domain name registration.

Virtual private servers plans

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The Virtual private servers hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated web server hosting solution. If your site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared website hosting account, a VPS server web hosting package is a good choice. private virtual server web hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical server with other virtual web server hosting users, but the disk drive space is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own dedicated resources and can be configured practically like a real dedicated hosting server. The advantage is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private hosting server are not shared. In addition, the virtualization technology gives you much more freedom to configure your virtual private web server, but it also presupposes a higher degree of technical know-how.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the client gets an entire server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated server hosting solution is the most flexible of all website hosting solutions and offers plenty of configuration options - the dedicated server web hosting clients can pick the hardware and software specifications that will fulfill their requirements. Dedicated system resources and guaranteed performance are two reasons why a dedicated hosting web server is a perfect option for a heavy resource-consuming business web portal, for instance - you will not share the hosting server's system resources with anyone else and will gain root access. You will have complete authority over the server, which will allow you to implement any server configuration changes that you might require. The disadvantage of the dedicated server web hosting solution is that a higher level of technical knowledge is needed - unless you hire an Information Technology professional, you will be responsible for managing and configuring the dedicated web server. The dedicated server web hosting solution is also much more expensive, since the cost of the dedicated web server isn't shared among any other users.

A hosting recommendation for novices

If you are just starting to create your website and need a website hosting solution to begin with, the shared website hosting solution remains the wisest option. If your website outgrows your shared hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for example, this is very easy and requires no migration of your website files, since only the parameters of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your hosting plan to a more advanced one at any particular moment without having to worry about the remaining time before the expiration date. Furthermore, if you eventually reach the most powerful shared website hosting plan and still require more system resources (which is great sometimes - it indicates that your site's popularity has expanded!), there always is the option to switch to a private virtual web hosting server or a dedicated hosting solution without the need to change hosting service providers.