A description of website hosting
The most standard and universally used variety of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It's a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and operating a hosting server. Besides, it's also the most economical type of web page hosting and it's indeed affordable for anybody. Still, what is shared site hosting?
What is shared webspace hosting?
As the name indicates, the shared web page hosting service is a kind of service where lots of clients share the system resources of one and the same server. This indicates that all web server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are apportioned among the customers whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is typically made viable by opening different accounts for the different users and allocating some limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are applied so as to hinder the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the server from overloading. Normally, shared web page hosting customers do not have root-level access to the web server's config files, which basically indicates that they do not have access to anything else on the server apart from their own personal website hosting account. The webspace hosting features that each account may use are determined by the web hosting provider that owns the server and by the particular web space hosting plan. That brings on the second essential question:
How are the shared hosting web servers divided among the users?
Hosting corporations that distribute shared web space hosting accounts usually have various site hosting plans. Those packages offer different amounts of website hosting features and specs, which actually fix the limits that a site hosting package will have. The user may select between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will fit him best. The web space hosting plan will then define what restrictions the client's account will involve, once opened. The costs and the specifications of the site hosting plans are specified by the particular web hosting supplier. Depending on the policy of the firm, the shared hosting solution falls into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the standard shared solution, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to say, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they actually are dependent on the business strategy of the specific company and, of course, the needs of the specific client.
What is the distinction between the free of charge and the popular shared web hosting solution?
Of course, the major difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they offer. Free web hosting firms are not capable of maintaining a great amount of web servers, therefore, they simply accommodate more users on one single hosting server by decreasing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the web servers are supervised and tackled appropriately, since the immense amount of accounts may make the web hosting server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free site hosting firms, however, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's very tough to stumble upon a free hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting distributors commonly provide free customer support even to the free site hosting customers, since they want their web portals to enlarge so that they eventually migrate to a paid web space hosting package, which offers more web hosting resources. One such distributor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free web site hosting vendors in the world.
On the other hand, established shared web hosting providers such as Exclusive Hosting, for instance, are able to maintain plenty of servers and therefore, they may afford to offer much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that influences the pricing of the web site hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web space hosting account, however, does not automatically signify that this solution has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the real service which you're obtaining. The first-rate website hosting providers that have been around for a long time are exhibiting their price tags and plan configurations in a realistic way, so that the customer may acquainted with what exactly he is receiving. In addition, some of them provide a free bonus with the web site hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of gratis web templates that are offered by 'Exclusive Hosting'. Such site hosting suppliers do look after their reputation and this is the reason why if you select them, you can be confident that you won't get fooled into buying a solution that you cannot actually use.
What should I anticipate from a shared webspace hosting service?
The shared site hosting solution is best for those who are looking to host a basic web site, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business enlarges, your site will become more and more demanding. Therefore, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich web space hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. Therefore, when selecting a web site hosting vendor, you should also reflect about how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up transferring your domain name manually to a separate distributor, which can cause website problems and even extended downtime for your web site. So, going with a web hosting company such as 'Exclusive Hosting', which can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will save you lots of problems in the long run.