Shared Hosting Explanation

Shared hosting is a service that web hosting suppliers offer so that you can publish your web site online.

How can people spot your website?

When you create a website and you want other people to notice it, you will have to publish (or upload) it to a server. If you attempt to make the website discoverable on the Internet by shared hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it up and running all the time, which is why web hosting services exist.

How does shared hosting work?

Hosting providers offer you hard drive storage space for your site on their high-end computers (servers) and guarantee continuous Internet access. When someone types your domain name (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web server where they can have a gaze at the content of your web site.

Types of hosting

With the progress of web technologies, several types of web hosting services have come into being to meet the different demands of website possessors, including shared website hosting services, virtual web server hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared hosting is the most commonly used form of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where one web hosting server is divided between a lot of hosting users who are restricted by the CPU, traffic and server hard drive space quotas that they have been allotted. This form of website hosting is usually cheaper - you don't have to buy the entire hosting server upfront, since it is shared between lots of web hosting account owners, and the hosting vendor can afford to offer much lower prices. It is also much easier to use - the hosting server is pre-installed with all the necessary software and the web hosting solutions provider handles all server maintenance procedures and software updates for you.

The weakness of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the server's system resources with other shared web hosting account holders and if one web site becomes very popular it may affect (and slow down) all the other websites on that web server, but most hosting vendors, including us at Tehilla Media, have protection systems in place that prevent that from happening.

A description of a website hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most commonly used form of web hosting, the majority of hosting distributors and hosting customers simply call it hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense competition on the hosting marketplace, the majority of hosting service providers strive to offer affordable prices and gifts with their hosting services. We, for instance, provide different website hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and annual, based on your funds. If you pick the yearly invoicing cycle, you will get a gift - one charge-free domain name registration.

Virtual private servers plans

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The Virtual private servers hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your web site outgrows the resources offered by your shared hosting account, a Virtual Private Server hosting plan is a suitable option. virtual server web hosting customers still share the hardware resources of the physical server with other private virtual server hosting customers, but the disk drive space is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own dedicated system resources and can be configured practically like an actual dedicated server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a private virtual server are not shared. Also, the virtualization technology offers you much more freedom to configure your private virtual web hosting server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical knowledge.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the customer gets a whole dedicated server and can use all its resources. The dedicated web hosting solution is the most robust of all website hosting solutions and offers lots of customization possibilities - the customers can choose the hardware and software specifications that will meet their needs. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server hosting plan is an excellent solution for a heavy resource-swallowing corporate website, for example - you will not share the server's resources with anyone else and will obtain full server root access. You will have complete authority over the machine, which will enable you to implement any server configuration changes that you might require. The disadvantage of the dedicated server web hosting solution is that a more advanced level of technical competence is needed - unless you employ an IT specialist, it will be your obligation to manage and configure the server. The dedicated web hosting solution is also much more expensive, since the cost of the dedicated server isn't shared between any other users.

A web hosting recommendation for beginner users

If you are just beginning to set up your site and are seeking a hosting solution to start with, the shared hosting solution remains the smartest option. If your web site outgrows your website hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not necessitate migration of your files, because only the features of your hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting package to a more powerful one at any particular time without worrying about the time left until the expiration date. Also, if you finally reach the most powerful shared website hosting plan and still need more resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it suggests that your site's popularity has grown!), there always is the option to move to a VPS server hosting solution or a dedicated web server hosting solution without needing to switch hosting service providers.