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A definition of website hosting

The most elemental and widely used form of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It's a means to host your site without having to know much about programming and handling a web hosting server. Besides, it's also the most economical form of webspace hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. Still, what is shared website hosting?

What is shared webspace hosting?

As the name indicates, the shared website hosting service is a form of service where multiple customers share the resources of the same server. This implies that all web hosting server ingredients like CPU, hard drives, RAM, NICs etc. are allocated among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly rendered accomplishable by opening separate accounts for the different customers and applying given restrictions and quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are fixed so as to prevent the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the hosting server from overloading. Typically, shared website hosting users do not have full root access to the hosting server's config files, which essentially implies that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server apart from their own hosting account. The site hosting features that each account may resort to are set by the web hosting supplier that possesses the web hosting server and by the particular web site hosting plan. That necessitates the second vital question:

How are the shared web hosting servers divided among the users?

Web hosting corporations that supply shared website hosting solutions typically have different website hosting packages. Those packages provide different quotas of site hosting resources and specs, which actually set the restrictions that a webspace hosting account will have. The user may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The webspace hosting plan will then determine what restrictions the user's account will have, once created. The costs and the specs of the webspace hosting plans are specified by the particular hosting distributor. Depending on the policy of the company, the shared web space hosting solution falls into two groups - the free hosting service and the popular shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to declare, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are determined by the marketing strategy of the particular vendor and, of course, the requirements of the particular client.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the common shared hosting solution?

Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they involve. Free website hosting vendors are not capable of keeping a big number of servers, hence, they just host more clients on one single server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only if the web hosting servers are kept under surveillance and handled properly, since the big amount of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash on a regular basis. Most of the free web space hosting vendors, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite difficult to stumble upon a free of cost web space hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting firms normally provide free client support even to the free hosting clients, because they want their websites to expand so that they eventually migrate to a paid hosting package, which includes more hosting features. One such company, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free web space hosting vendors in the world.

On the other hand, traditional shared web hosting corporations such as AfterHost, for example, are able to maintain multiple servers and as a result, they may afford to provide much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the site hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a webspace hosting service, however, does not necessarily mean that this solution has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the real service which you're getting. The best hosting providers that have been around for quite some time are exhibiting their prices and plan configurations in an objective fashion, so that the client may know what exactly he is receiving. Besides, some of these give a free extra with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of gratis website skins that are offered by 'AfterHost'. Such web site hosting suppliers do look after their reputation and that is the reason why if you pick them, you can be certain that you won't get duped into buying a service that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I anticipate from a shared web page hosting solution?

The shared web hosting solution is best for people who are looking to host a basic website, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared web space hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business grows, your site will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful web space hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (a.k.a. a private virtual web server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when choosing a web hosting supplier, you should also think about how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a different supplier, which can cause site problems and even prolonged downtime for your web page. Hence, picking a web hosting supplier such as 'AfterHost', which can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you a lot of difficulties in the long run.