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What Exactly is Shared Web Hosting?

The most archetypal and universally utilized variety of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It constitutes a means to host your web portal without having to understand much about programming and running a web hosting server. In addition, it's also the cheapest type of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. Nonetheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

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As the name suggests, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where numerous clients share the system resources of the same web hosting server. This signifies that all web server constituents such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are split among the clients whose accounts are on that same server. This is mainly rendered achievable by setting up separate accounts for the separate clients and allocating specific limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are imposed so as to restrain the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the server from overburdening. Typically, shared hosting users do not have complete root access to the web server's configuration files, which principally signifies that they cannot access anything else on the web server apart from their own hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may resort to are set by the hosting supplier that owns the web hosting server and by the particular website hosting package. That results in the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers shared among the users?

Web hosting companies that offer shared hosting plans commonly have various web hosting packages. Those packages contain different amounts of web hosting features and specifications, which in fact fix the limitations that a website hosting account will include. The customer may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what restrictions the client's account will have, once set up. The costs and the features of the website hosting packages are set by the specific web hosting supplier. Depending on the politics of the provider, the shared hosting solution can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the popular shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to say, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are subject to the business policy of the given company and, of course, the requirements of the specific user.

What is the contrast between the free of cost and the standard shared hosting service?

Of course, the major difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the amount of features that they provide. Free website hosting providers are not capable of maintaining a large amount of hosting servers, therefore, they simply accommodate more customers on one web hosting server by reducing the amount of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only if the servers are kept under surveillance and administered properly, because the enormous number of accounts may cause the server to crash repeatedly. The majority of the free website hosting providers, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's quite tough to discover a free of charge web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting firms commonly offer free client support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their websites to get bigger so that they subsequently move to a paid website hosting account, which offers more hosting resources. Such distributor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and eldest free hosting distributors worldwide.

At the same time, traditional shared hosting corporations like us, may afford to keep a lot of web hosting servers and so, we may afford to offer much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that affects the pricing of the hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web hosting solution, however, does not necessarily imply that this package has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're getting. Additionally, we also give a free bonus with the web hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of fee-free web design themes. As a website hosting distributor, we do look after our good name and that is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest certain that you won't get deceived into purchasing an account that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting service is best for persons who are looking to host a standard web site, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business develops, your site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more feature-rich web hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (a.k.a. a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting company, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up relocating your domain manually to a different distributor, which can create site predicaments and even continued downtime for your website. If you select Hepsia as your website hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is crucial and will save you lots of problems in the long run.