Shared Hosting Description

The most fundamental and widely utilized form of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It represents a way to host your web site without having to be much informed about programming and handling a server. In addition to this, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Still, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name designates, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where multiple users share the system resources of the same server. This suggests that all server ingredients like CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs etc. are allotted among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is usually rendered attainable by setting up separate accounts for the different customers and allocating specific restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are assigned so as to hinder the customers from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Usually, shared hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the web hosting server's config files, which primarily implies that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server but their own website hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may avail of are determined by the hosting supplier that owns the hosting server and by the particular web hosting plan. That necessitates the second essential question:

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

Hosting companies that distribute shared hosting plans normally have diverse hosting packages. Those plans involve diverse amounts of web hosting resources and specs, which in fact determine the limits that a website hosting package will have. The user may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will suit him best. The website hosting plan will then define what restrictions the client's account will include, once opened. The costs and the specs of the web hosting plans are determined by the particular hosting provider. Depending on the politics of the vendor, the shared hosting solution falls into 2 types - the free hosting service and the common shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to declare, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed depend on the marketing strategy of the specific supplier and, of course, the needs of the given user.

What is the distinction between the free of charge and the regular shared hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they provide. Free web hosting distributors are not capable of maintaining a great number of web hosting servers, hence, they just accommodate more customers on one hosting server by lowering the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the web servers are monitored and handled properly, since the great number of accounts may make the web hosting server crash again and again. The majority of the free website hosting vendors, however, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's very tough to find a free of charge hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting suppliers typically provide free client support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their websites to enlarge so that they eventually move to a paid hosting plan, which offers more website hosting features. Such supplier, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free website hosting providers worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional shared hosting firms like us, are able to keep lots of web hosting servers and hence, we are able to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web hosting account, however, does not necessarily denote that this service has a better quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the actual service which you're receiving. In addition, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of free-of-cost layouts. As a hosting companie, we do care about our good name and that is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest assured that you won't get deceived into paying for a service that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting solution is best for individuals who desire to host a basic web portal, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business develops, your site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually move to a more powerful web hosting service like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (a.k.a. a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when selecting a website hosting provider, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different company, which can bring about site problems and even extended downtime for your website. If you go with Tehilla Media as your web hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is vital and will spare you lots of predicaments in the future.