What Actually is Shared Hosting?

The most primary and universally availed of kind of web hosting is the web hosting service. It's a way to host your web page without having to know much about programming and running a server. Moreover, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's very affordable for anybody. However, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name suggests, the web hosting solution is a type of service where plenty of users share the resources of the same server. This indicates that all web server components such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, NICs etc. are distributed among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is typically made viable by setting up different accounts for the different clients and appointing certain restrictions and quotas for each of them. Those limitations are imposed so as to prevent the users from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the server from overloading. Typically, web hosting clients do not have root access to the hosting server's configuration files, which principally implies that they cannot access anything else on the web server aside from their own personal website hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may avail of are fixed by the web hosting firm that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting plan. That causes the second important question:

How are the shared hosting web servers split among the users?

Web hosting companies that supply web hosting plans typically have various website hosting plans. Those plans offer diverse quotas of hosting features and specs, which actually set the limits that a web hosting account will have. The user may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The web hosting package will then define what restrictions the user's account will involve, once opened. The prices and the features of the website hosting packages are fixed by the very web hosting provider. Based on the policy of the company, the web hosting solution can be divided into two categories - the free hosting service and the classic shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" sellers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to declare, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they actually are dependent on the business tactics of the given firm and, of course, the demands of the specific customer.

What is the difference between the free and the normal web hosting service?

Of course, the major difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they contain. Free website hosting corporations are not capable of keeping a big amount of hosting servers, hence, they just accommodate more customers on one single server by reducing the amount of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only if the servers are monitored and dealt with appropriately, since the huge number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash over and over again. The majority of the free website hosting vendors, though, ignore the quality of the service and therefore, it's very difficult to stumble upon a free of charge web hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting companies usually offer free technical support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their sites to enlarge so that they eventually move to a paid website hosting account, which offers more hosting features. One such company, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free website hosting companies worldwide.

At the same time, established web hosting firms such as us, are able to keep many servers and hence, we may afford to provide much more powerful website hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web hosting account, however, does not automatically denote that this account has a better quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the actual service which you're obtaining. In addition, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free-of-cost web skins. As a hosting vendor, we do care about our good name and that is the reason why if you pick us, you can be confident that you won't get deceived into purchasing a service that you cannot in fact use.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting solution?

The web hosting solution is best for those who want to host a basic site, which is going to use 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 website will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (also known as a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when selecting a hosting supplier, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different distributor, which can create website complications and even extended downtime for your web portal. If you pick Flexhosted Web Services as your website hosting vendor, 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 annoyances in the long run.