Description of Shared Website Hosting

The most elemental and frequently utilized type of web hosting is the hosting solution. It's a way to host your web portal without having to know much about programming and operating a server. Moreover, it's also the most economical form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name implies, the hosting solution is a kind of service where many customers share the system reserves of one and the same web server. This signifies that all server components like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, NICs etc. are split among the users whose accounts are on that same web server. This is normally made feasible by opening different accounts for the different users and fixing given limits and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are fixed in order to hinder the customers from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overloading. Normally, hosting clients do not have root-level access to the hosting server's config files, which primarily denotes that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server but their very own hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may resort to are set by the web hosting vendor that owns the hosting server and by the given web hosting package. That entails the second vital question:

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

Hosting corporations that supply hosting plans commonly have diverse website hosting plans. Those plans contain different amounts of hosting features and specs, which in fact determine the limitations that a website hosting plan will have. The user may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The web hosting plan will then determine what restrictions the customer's account will have, once set up. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting plans are chosen by the specific web hosting vendor. Depending on the politics of the supplier, the hosting solution can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the popular shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to tell, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed are determined by the marketing policy of the specific vendor and, of course, the needs of the specific client.

What is the distinction between the free and the standard hosting solution?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of charge and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they include. Free web hosting vendors are not able to keep an immense number of web hosting servers, hence, they just host more users on a single hosting server by decreasing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the servers are supervised and tackled appropriately, because the enormous number of accounts may make the web hosting server crash time and time again. The majority of the free website hosting corporations, however, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's very hard to stumble upon a free hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting companies usually provide free technical support even to the free website hosting users, because they want their web portals to grow so that they eventually upgrade to a paid hosting plan, which offers more web hosting features. One such vendor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and eldest free website hosting firms in the world.

On the other hand, traditional hosting corporations like us, are able to keep numerous web servers and hence, we are able to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a hosting solution, though, does not automatically signify that this plan has a finer quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the concrete service which you're getting. Additionally, we also give a free extra with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free-of-charge web design themes. As a web hosting provider, we do worry about our good name and that's why if you go with us, you can rest certain that you won't get tricked into paying for a plan that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I expect from a hosting solution?

The hosting solution is best for individuals who would like to host a basic website, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business develops, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting service like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (aka a private virtual server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when selecting a web hosting supplier, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up moving your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can create web site predicaments and even extended downtime for your site. If you go with Wonderly Web Hosting as your website hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will save you a lot of complications in the long run.