What Indeed is Shared Hosting?

The most fundamental and frequently utilized kind of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It constitutes a means to host your site without having to understand much about programming and operating a web server. Additionally, it's also the most economical form of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for anybody. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name signifies, the shared hosting service is a kind of service where plenty of users share the system resources of the same web server. This goes to say that all hosting server constituents such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are apportioned among the clients whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mainly made attainable by creating separate accounts for the different customers and imposing certain restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are appointed in order to prevent the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overburdening. Typically, shared hosting clients do not have complete root-level access to the web server's config files, which primarily goes to say that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server beside their own web hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may resort to are set by the hosting supplier that possesses the web hosting server and by the particular web hosting package. That entails the second essential question:

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

Web hosting firms that distribute shared hosting plans usually have different web hosting packages. Those plans involve diverse quotas of website hosting resources and specs, which in fact define the limits that a website hosting package will have. The user may pick between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The website hosting package will then define what restrictions the customer's account will include, once set up. The prices and the specs of the website hosting plans are fixed by the actual hosting corporation. Based on the policy of the corporation, the shared hosting service can be divided into two types - the free hosting solution and the regular shared solution, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" providers 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 really are dependent on the marketing strategy of the particular corporation and, of course, the requirements of the specific customer.

What is the distinction between the free and the regular shared hosting solution?

Of course, the main difference between the free and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they contain. Free website hosting vendors are not capable of keeping a big number of hosting servers, therefore, they merely accommodate more clients on one web server by decreasing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the web servers are kept under surveillance and dealt with appropriately, because the enormous amount of accounts may make the web server crash again and again. Most of the free website hosting vendors, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite tough to come across a free of charge web hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting distributors normally offer free technical support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their web portals to grow bigger so that they subsequently migrate to a paid web hosting plan, which offers more web hosting features. One such distributor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and eldest free web hosting firms worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional shared hosting distributors like us, are able to maintain plenty of hosting servers and hence, we are able to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting package, though, does not automatically mean that this service has a better quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the real service which you're getting. Also, we also give a free bonus with the website hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free-of-charge web templates. As a website hosting companie, we do look after our reputation and that is the reason why if you pick us, you can rest calm that you won't get swindled into buying a service that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for people who desire to host a standard web site, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business develops, your web page will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (a.k.a. a private virtual server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when picking a web hosting company, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up moving your domain manually to a separate company, which can create site problems and even continuous downtime for your web page. If you choose HostTower 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, is essential and will save you lots of frustrations in the future.