What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

The most primary and frequently availed of variety of web hosting is the hosting service. It represents a way to host your web site without having to be much informed about programming and managing a web server. Furthermore, it's also the cheapest form of website hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name designates, the hosting service is a form of service where plenty of clients share the resources of the same server. This signifies that all hosting server ingredients like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are allocated among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is normally made feasible by opening different accounts for the different users and appointing given limits and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are set so as to hinder the users from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the server from overloading. Usually, hosting clients do not have root-level access to the server's configuration files, which principally implies that they do not have access to anything else on the server aside from their own personal website hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are determined by the web hosting firm that owns the hosting server and by the respective hosting plan. That leads up to the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers shared among the users?

Hosting suppliers that provide hosting packages commonly have diverse website hosting plans. Those packages include different quotas of website hosting features and specs, which in fact determine the restrictions that a web hosting account will have. The client may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will suit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what limitations the user's account will have, once opened. The prices and the features of the website hosting plans are defined by the particular web hosting corporation. Depending on the politics of the provider, the hosting service can be divided into two types - the free hosting service and the standard shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to tell, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they actually are subject to the marketing policy of the particular supplier and, of course, the requirements of the particular user.

What is the difference between the free and the classic hosting service?

Of course, the major difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they offer. Free website hosting corporations are not capable of keeping an immense number of web hosting servers, therefore, they plainly host more clients on a single server by lowering the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web servers are monitored and maintained properly, since the huge amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash repeatedly. The majority of the free website hosting providers, however, ignore the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite difficult to stumble upon a free of cost web hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting suppliers normally provide free technical support even to the free website hosting users, since they want their websites to grow so that they eventually migrate to a paid website hosting package, which offers more web hosting features. Such corporation, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.

On the other hand, established hosting corporations such as us, may afford to keep multiple web hosting servers and therefore, we are able to provide much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting package, however, does not necessarily mean that this package has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're getting. Moreover, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free-of-cost web page skins. As a hosting distributor, we do look after our good name and that's why if you pick us, you can be calm that you won't get deceived into purchasing a package that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I expect from a hosting service?

The hosting solution is best for people who desire to host a standard site, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your web site will become more and more demanding. Therefore, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (also known as a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting supplier, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up moving your domain manually to a different supplier, which can bring about website predicaments and even continuous downtime for your site. If you pick Webtanium as your web hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is vital and will spare you a lot of headaches in the future.