What is Shared Web Hosting?

The most basic and frequently used variety of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It's a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and operating a web hosting server. Besides, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for anybody. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name designates, the shared hosting service is a kind of service where many customers share the reserves of one and the same hosting server. This denotes that all server components such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs etc. are allocated among the clients whose accounts are on that very same server. This is typically made tenable by setting up different accounts for the different clients and fixing given limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limits are applied so as to prevent the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overburdening. Usually, shared hosting customers do not have full root-level access to the web hosting server's config files, which essentially suggests that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server but their own web hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are set by the web hosting corporation that owns the web hosting server and by the particular hosting package. That brings about the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers shared among the customers?

Hosting providers that deliver shared hosting accounts normally have different hosting packages. Those packages contain diverse quotas of web hosting features and specs, which in fact determine the restrictions that a web hosting package will include. The user may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what limits the client's account will have, once set up. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting packages are specified by the very web hosting provider. Depending on the policy of the corporation, the shared hosting solution falls into 2 types - the free hosting service and the classic shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from one another and they indeed depend on the marketing strategy of the given company and, of course, the demands of the given client.

What is the difference between the free and the normal shared hosting solution?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they provide. Free web hosting vendors are not capable of maintaining an immense number of servers, hence, they simply host more users on one web hosting server by reducing the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web servers are supervised and administered properly, because the huge number of accounts may make the server crash regularly. The majority of the free web hosting distributors, however, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite tough to come across a free website hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting distributors commonly provide free technical support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their web pages to expand so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid website hosting account, which includes more website hosting resources. Such firm, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free website hosting companies worldwide.

On the other hand, established shared hosting firms like us, are able to keep lots of hosting servers and so, we are able to provide much more feature-rich web hosting packages. Of course, that influences the pricing of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting account, though, does not automatically signify that this service has a better quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the actual service which you're receiving. What's more, we also give a free extra with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of gratis site layouts. As a web hosting vendor, we do look after our reputation and that's why if you select us, you can rest confident that you won't get duped into paying for a package that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I expect from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for those who wish to host a normal site, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (aka a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a website hosting company, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a different supplier, which can bring about site predicaments and even continued downtime for your site. If you select Consultingforge SL as your hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will spare you lots of headaches in the long run.