How Does Shared Website Hosting Function?

The most primary and regularly utilized type of web hosting is the web hosting service. It constitutes a means to host your website without having to know much about programming and managing a web hosting server. In addition to this, it's also the most inexpensive form of hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Still, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name indicates, the web hosting solution is a type of service where numerous users share the resources of the same web server. This implies that all server ingredients like CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs etc. are distributed among the clients whose accounts are on that same server. This is usually made feasible by setting up separate accounts for the different users and appointing specific restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are imposed in order to hinder the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overloading. Usually, web hosting customers do not have full root access to the hosting server's config files, which essentially means that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server but their own personal web hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may use are set by the web hosting corporation that possesses the server and by the particular web hosting package. That leads to the second essential question:

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

Hosting corporations that offer web hosting services usually have various web hosting plans. Those packages provide diverse quotas of web hosting resources and specs, which actually set the limitations that a web hosting package will have. The customer may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will fit him best. The website hosting plan will then define what restrictions the client's account will involve, once opened. The costs and the specifications of the website hosting plans are fixed by the actual web hosting provider. Depending on the policy of the distributor, the web hosting solution falls into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the common shared solution, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are dependent on the business tactics of the specific company and, of course, the demands of the particular customer.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the typical web hosting solution?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of charge and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they contain. Free website hosting providers are not able to maintain an immense amount of web servers, hence, they plainly host more customers on one single hosting server by reducing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the web servers are supervised and tackled properly, since the huge number of accounts may make the web hosting server crash regularly. The majority of the free web hosting suppliers, however, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite tough to stumble upon a free of charge web hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting vendors typically provide free client support even to the free hosting customers, since they want their websites to expand so that they eventually upgrade to a paid website hosting plan, which includes more web hosting features. One such firm, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free web hosting providers worldwide.

At the same time, traditional web hosting providers like us, may afford to keep numerous web servers and so, we may afford to offer much more powerful hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a hosting solution, though, does not necessarily denote that this solution has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that corresponds to the real service which you're getting. Furthermore, we also offer a free bonus with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of free-of-cost web layouts. As a web hosting corporation, we do look after our good name and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest calm that you won't get tricked into buying a service that you cannot actually use.

What should I expect from a web hosting service?

The web hosting service is best for individuals who desire to host an average web page, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business grows, your web portal will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to ultimately move to a more feature-rich web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (also known as a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when selecting a hosting vendor, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate vendor, which can cause website problems and even continued downtime for your site. If you select Supportive Hosting as your web hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is vital and will spare you a lot of annoyances in the long run.