What Actually is Shared Website Hosting?

The most primary and widely utilized sort of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It constitutes a means to host your web portal without having to understand much about programming and operating a web server. In addition to that, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name designates, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where a lot of customers share the system reserves of the same web hosting server. This means that all server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs etc. are distributed among the clients whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is normally rendered possible by setting up different accounts for the separate users and applying given limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are appointed in order to restrain the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overburdening. Normally, shared hosting customers do not have root-level access to the web server's config files, which essentially implies that they cannot access anything else on the server apart from their own hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may resort to are set by the web hosting distributor that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting package. That leads up to the second essential question:

How are the shared hosting web servers shared among the clients?

Hosting suppliers that furnish shared hosting services normally have various website hosting packages. Those plans offer different amounts of web hosting features and specifications, which in fact fix the limitations that a website hosting plan will include. The client may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will fit him best. The website hosting package will then define what limitations the user's account will involve, once opened. The prices and the specs of the web hosting packages are defined by the particular web hosting supplier. Depending on the politics of the distributor, the shared hosting service can be divided into two types - the free hosting service and the popular shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" retailers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to say, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they actually are determined by the business strategy of the specific provider and, of course, the needs of the given user.

What is the contrast between the free of charge and the common shared hosting service?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they offer. Free website hosting providers are not capable of maintaining a huge number of web servers, hence, they plainly accommodate more users on one single server by decreasing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the hosting servers are monitored and maintained appropriately, because the enormous number of accounts may make the server crash time and time again. Most of the free hosting suppliers, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's very hard to come across a free of cost website hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting vendors usually provide free technical support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their websites to enlarge so that they eventually upgrade to a paid website hosting package, which offers more website hosting features. Such company, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free web hosting firms worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional shared hosting corporations such as us, are able to maintain a lot of hosting servers and so, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that influences the cost of the hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting account, however, does not necessarily mean that this service has a finer quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that corresponds to the concrete service which you're receiving. Additionally, we also give a free bonus with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of fee-free web templates. As a website hosting provider, we do look after our reputation and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest assured that you won't get beguiled into buying a service that you cannot in fact use.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting solution is best for those who wish to host a basic site, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business develops, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich website hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (a.k.a. a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when picking a website hosting distributor, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate company, which can bring about web site problems and even prolonged downtime for your website. If you select Outraged Hosting as your web hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will save you a lot of troubles in the future.