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What Does Shared Hosting Denote?

The most elemental and widely utilized kind of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It's a means to host your website without having to understand much about programming and operating a web hosting server. Furthermore, it's also the cheapest type of web hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name designates, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where plenty of users share the system resources of the same web server. This means that all web hosting server ingredients such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are distributed among the users whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mainly rendered attainable by opening separate accounts for the separate clients and allocating specific limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are applied in order to prevent the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overburdening. Normally, shared hosting customers do not have full root access to the web hosting server's configuration files, which basically means that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server beside their own personal web hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may utilize are set by the hosting firm that owns the web server and by the given website hosting package. That leads up to the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Hosting corporations that offer shared hosting solutions normally have different website hosting plans. Those plans provide diverse amounts of web hosting resources and specs, which actually set the limits that a web hosting plan will include. The customer may choose between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The website hosting plan will then define what limits the customer's account will include, once created. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting packages are specified by the specific web hosting corporation. Based on the politics of the corporation, the shared hosting solution can be divided into two types - the free hosting service and the regular shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" sellers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to state, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they actually are determined by the marketing policy of the particular firm and, of course, the demands of the specific customer.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the typical shared hosting service?

Of course, the chief difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they involve. Free website hosting firms are not capable of keeping an immense amount of web hosting servers, hence, they just host more customers on one single hosting server by reducing the quantity of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are monitored and maintained properly, because the large number of accounts may make the server crash regularly. The majority of the free website hosting vendors, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to stumble upon a free website hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting corporations commonly provide free client support even to the free web hosting customers, since they want their sites to get bigger so that they subsequently move to a paid hosting account, which includes more website hosting features. Such provider, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free web hosting providers in the world.

On the other hand, established shared hosting distributors like us, are able to maintain numerous web servers and as a result, we are able to provide much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting package, however, does not automatically imply that this package has a better quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the concrete service which you're receiving. Besides, we also provide a free bonus with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of charge-free design themes. As a hosting firm, we do worry about our good name and that's why if you choose us, you can rest confident that you won't get beguiled into buying a service that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting service is best for people who would like to host a standard website, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business expands, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more powerful website hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (also known as a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when selecting a website hosting supplier, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain manually to a different distributor, which can bring about website complications and even continuous downtime for your web site. If you choose Tehilla Media as your hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow, is vital and will save you lots of annoyances in the future.