What Precisely is Shared Web Hosting?

The most standard and commonly availed of sort of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and administering a hosting server. Additionally, it's also the cheapest type of web hosting and it's very affordable for everyone. Nonetheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name suggests, the shared hosting solution is a kind of service where lots of customers share the reserves of one and the same hosting server. This implies that all web hosting server constituents such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network cards 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 specific restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are allocated so as to restrain the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the hosting server from overloading. Normally, shared hosting users do not have complete root access to the server's config files, which essentially means that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server aside from their very own hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are fixed by the web hosting company that owns the server and by the respective website hosting package. That brings on the second important question:

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

Hosting firms that supply shared hosting solutions normally have diverse web hosting packages. Those packages provide different amounts of web hosting features and specifications, which actually set the restrictions that a website hosting package will include. The user may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The website hosting plan will then determine what limitations the user's account will have, once set up. The costs and the specs of the hosting plans are fixed by the specific web hosting corporation. Based on the policy of the distributor, the shared hosting solution can be divided into 2 types - the free hosting service and the normal shared solution, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" traders as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to tell, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed are determined by the marketing strategy of the specific company and, of course, the requirements of the particular customer.

What is the distinction between the free of cost and the popular shared hosting service?

Of course, the essential difference between the free and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they contain. Free website hosting providers are not capable of maintaining a great number of servers, therefore, they merely accommodate more users on one single web server by decreasing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the hosting servers are kept under surveillance and maintained appropriately, because the big amount of accounts may make the server crash repeatedly. Most of the free web hosting providers, however, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's very difficult to stumble upon a free of cost website hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting firms normally offer free customer support even to the free web hosting clients, since they want their sites to expand so that they subsequently migrate to a paid web hosting package, which includes more web hosting resources. One such company, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free website hosting corporations worldwide.

On the other hand, established shared hosting suppliers such as us, are able to keep plenty of hosting servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a website hosting service, however, does not necessarily imply that this service has a finer quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that matches the real service which you're receiving. Moreover, we also give a free bonus with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of free-of-charge web design themes. As a website hosting vendor, we do worry about our good name and that is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest assured that you won't get hoaxed into purchasing a package that you cannot actually make use of.

What should I expect from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting service is best for persons who desire to host an average web page, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to eventually move to a more powerful web hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (also known as a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting provider, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different provider, which can create site predicaments and even extended downtime for your web site. If you choose St. Clare Web Hosting as your hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of nuisances in the long run.