How Does Shared Hosting Function?

The most principal and widely utilized form of web hosting is the web hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your website without having to understand much about programming and running a server. Moreover, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name suggests, the web hosting solution is a type of service where numerous clients share the resources of the same hosting server. This denotes that all server ingredients such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, NICs and so on, are distributed among the customers whose accounts are on that very same web server. This is mostly rendered feasible by creating separate accounts for the separate users and assigning specific limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are allocated so as to prevent the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, web hosting customers do not have root access to the web hosting server's config files, which basically indicates that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server aside from their own website page hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may resort to are fixed by the web hosting supplier that owns the server and by the given web hosting plan. That causes the second important question:

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

Web hosting suppliers that provide web hosting services typically have various website hosting plans. Those packages involve different quotas of website hosting resources and specifications, which in fact define the limitations that a website hosting account will include. The customer may select between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will suit him best. The web hosting plan will then determine what limitations the client's account will include, once created. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting plans are chosen by the specific hosting company. Based on the politics of the corporation, the web hosting solution falls into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the typical shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed are subject to the marketing tactics of the specific provider and, of course, the demands of the given customer.

What is the distinction between the free of cost and the regular web hosting solution?

Of course, the main difference between the free and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they offer. Free website hosting corporations are not able to keep an enormous number of web hosting servers, therefore, they merely accommodate more clients on a single web server by lowering the quantity of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only if the web hosting servers are supervised and dealt with appropriately, since the great amount of accounts may make the server crash time and time again. The majority of the free website hosting companies, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's quite tough to stumble upon a free of cost website hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting companies typically provide free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their web pages to expand so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid hosting plan, which includes more web hosting features. Such supplier, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free hosting corporations worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional web hosting distributors such as us, are able to maintain many hosting servers and therefore, we are able to offer much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that affects the cost of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a website hosting package, however, does not necessarily mean that this package has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that matches the real service which you're receiving. Besides, we also offer a free extra with the hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free-of-cost templates. As a web hosting supplier, we do look after our good name and that's why if you go with us, you can rest assured that you won't get duped into buying an account that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting service?

The web hosting service is best for people who desire to host a basic web portal, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, however, that a web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business grows bigger, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting service like a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (also known as a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. So, when selecting a website hosting supplier, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up moving your domain manually to a separate provider, which can cause site problems and even extended downtime for your web portal. If you select Greathost as your website hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of difficulties in the long run.