What In Fact is Shared Website Hosting?

The most standard and popularly availed of form of web hosting is the web hosting service. It constitutes a means to host your web portal without having to know much about programming and running a web server. What's more, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name denotes, the web hosting solution is a kind of service where lots of customers share the system resources of one and the same server. This indicates that all hosting server elements such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are shared among the customers whose accounts are on that very same server. This is typically rendered attainable by creating different accounts for the separate users and fixing certain restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are set so as to prevent the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overburdening. Normally, web hosting clients do not have root access to the hosting server's configuration files, which primarily suggests that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server aside from their very own website hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are set by the web hosting firm that owns the web server and by the respective web hosting package. That results in the second essential question:

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

Hosting distributors that deliver web hosting solutions normally have different web hosting packages. Those plans offer diverse amounts of web hosting resources and specifications, which actually define the restrictions that a website hosting plan will have. The customer may choose between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The web hosting package will then define what restrictions the client's account will have, once set up. The prices and the specs of the web hosting plans are set by the given hosting firm. Depending on the politics of the provider, the web hosting solution can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the normal shared solution, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to assert, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed depend on the business strategy of the given supplier and, of course, the requirements of the particular customer.

What is the contrast between the free and the regular web hosting service?

Of course, the principal difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they involve. Free web hosting companies are not capable of maintaining an immense amount of servers, therefore, they just accommodate more customers on a single hosting server by lowering the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are kept under surveillance and tackled appropriately, since the huge number of accounts may make the web server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free web hosting companies, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's quite tough to stumble upon a free website hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting providers normally offer free customer support even to the free website hosting users, because they want their sites to expand so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting package, which offers more web hosting resources. One such firm, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional web hosting providers such as us, are able to maintain numerous servers and therefore, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich hosting packages. Of course, that influences the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting package, however, does not automatically denote that this solution has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which involve a price that corresponds to the real service which you're receiving. Furthermore, we also offer a free bonus with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free web site templates. As a website hosting firm, we do care about our reputation and that's why if you select us, you can rest confident that you won't get duped into buying a plan that you cannot in fact use.

What should I expect from a web hosting service?

The web hosting service is best for individuals who wish to host a standard site, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business expands, your web portal will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting service like a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (aka a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when picking a website hosting company, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up moving your domain manually to a separate supplier, which can create web site complications and even continued downtime for your web page. If you go with YasHost as your web hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you lots of difficulties in the long run.