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What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

The most principal and popularly utilized kind of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It constitutes a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and handling a hosting server. What's more, it's also the most inexpensive form of website hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. Nonetheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

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As the name denotes, the shared hosting solution is a kind of service where a lot of customers share the system resources of the same web hosting server. This indicates that all web server elements such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network cards etc. are apportioned among the clients whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is mostly made accomplishable by opening different accounts for the different clients and appointing certain restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are allocated so as to prevent the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the server from overloading. Normally, shared hosting clients do not have full root-level access to the server's configuration files, which principally goes to say that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server aside from their very own hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may resort to are set by the hosting company that possesses the server and by the respective website hosting plan. That gives rise to the second vital question:

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

Hosting vendors that deliver shared hosting services commonly have diverse website hosting packages. Those plans offer different quotas of web hosting features and specifications, which in fact fix the limitations that a website hosting package will have. The user may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will suit him best. The hosting plan will then define what limits the user's account will include, once created. The costs and the specifications of the website hosting packages are chosen by the particular web hosting supplier. Based on the policy of the provider, the shared hosting service can be divided into 2 types - the free hosting solution and the normal shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to tell, which one is better, since they are very different from one another and they indeed are dependent on the marketing policy of the given vendor and, of course, the demands of the given client.

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

Of course, the primary difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they involve. Free hosting suppliers are not capable of keeping a big amount of servers, therefore, they just accommodate more users on a single hosting server by lowering the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are monitored and tackled properly, because the huge amount of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash frequently. The majority of the free web hosting suppliers, however, ignore the quality of the service and therefore, it's very tough to discover a free of cost website hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting companies typically provide free customer support even to the free website hosting clients, because they want their websites to grow so that they eventually migrate to a paid web hosting account, which includes more hosting features. Such company, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free web hosting companies in the world.

At the same time, traditional shared hosting providers such as us, are able to keep multiple web hosting servers and so, we may afford to provide much more feature-rich web hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting package, however, does not automatically denote that this account has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the real service which you're getting. Also, we also give a free bonus with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of cost-free web skins. As a website hosting corporation, we do care about our good name and this is the reason why if you pick us, you can rest calm that you won't get hoaxed into purchasing a service that you cannot actually avail of.

What should I expect from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for persons who are looking to host a standard website, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business grows, your web site will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (a.k.a. a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a web hosting company, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can bring about website complications and even continued downtime for your website. If you pick Step2Ray's Website Hosting as your website hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you lots of difficulties in the future.

 

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