A description of hosting
The most fundamental and commonly utilized type of web hosting is the shared web hosting solution. It represents a way to host your web portal without having to be much informed about programming and managing a web server. In addition to this, it's also the cheapest type of web site hosting and it's in fact affordable for anybody. Nevertheless, what is shared website hosting?
What is shared web site hosting?
As the name denotes, the shared web hosting service is a kind of service where a lot of clients share the system reserves of the same web hosting server. This denotes that all web hosting server components such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are shared among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is typically rendered tenable by creating different accounts for the separate clients and applying certain limitations and quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are fixed so as to hinder the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overloading. Typically, shared site hosting users do not have complete root access to the web server's config files, which primarily implies that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server but their own personal web hosting account. The webspace hosting resources that each account may utilize are fixed by the hosting provider that owns the web hosting server and by the particular web hosting package. That leads up to the second vital question:
How are the shared hosting servers shared among the users?
Web hosting distributors that offer shared web site hosting packages normally have diverse website hosting packages. Those packages offer different amounts of web site hosting features and specifications, which in fact determine the limits that a web hosting plan will have. The customer may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will fit him best. The webspace hosting package will then determine what limitations the client's account will include, once set up. The prices and the specs of the web hosting plans are fixed by the particular hosting vendor. Based on the policy of the provider, the shared site hosting solution falls into 2 categories - the free hosting service and the common shared solution, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" distributors as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to judge, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed are dependent on the business strategy of the given company and, of course, the requirements of the specific user.
What is the distinction between the free of charge and the common shared website hosting service?
Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they offer. Free hosting firms are not capable of maintaining a big amount of servers, hence, they simply accommodate more users on a single server by reducing the amount of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web servers are supervised and handled properly, because the immense amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash over and over again. Most of the free website hosting companies, though, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to find a free of cost web space hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting firms normally offer free technical support even to the free site hosting customers, because they want their web pages to enlarge so that they subsequently move to a paid web space hosting plan, which includes more webspace hosting resources. Such vendor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free site hosting corporations worldwide.
On the other hand, traditional shared web hosting firms such as Montevity Web Hosting, for example, are able to keep many hosting servers and therefore, they may afford to provide much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the web space hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a site hosting account, however, does not automatically imply that this solution has a better quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the concrete service which you're receiving. The best website hosting distributors that have been around for quite a while are showing their prices and package features in a realistic way, so that the client may be aware of what in fact he is obtaining. Moreover, some of these provide a free bonus with the webspace hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of cost-free website templates that are offered by 'Montevity Web Hosting'. Such site hosting distributors do look after their reputation and that is the reason why if you choose them, you can rest confident that you won't get deceived into buying an account that you cannot actually avail of.
What should I expect from a shared web hosting service?
The shared web page hosting solution is best for people who desire to host a normal site, which is going to use a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared web hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business develops, your web site will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich webspace hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when selecting a hosting company, you should also consider how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a different vendor, which can bring about web site predicaments and even prolonged downtime for your site. So, picking a site hosting company such as 'Montevity Web Hosting', which can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is crucial and will spare you a lot of annoyances in the future.