How Does Shared Hosting Work?

The most primary and popularly used type of web hosting is the website hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your web page without having to understand much about programming and operating a web server. What's more, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. However, what is website hosting?

What is website hosting?

As the name signifies, the website hosting service is a sort of service where multiple clients share the reserves of one and the same hosting server. This means that all server constituents such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, NICs etc. are split among the clients whose accounts are on that very same hosting server. This is normally made achievable by setting up separate accounts for the different clients and appointing certain limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are set in order to restrain the users from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overloading. Usually, website hosting users do not have complete root-level access to the hosting server's configuration files, which essentially means that they do not have access to anything else on the server aside from their own website page hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are determined by the hosting company that possesses the hosting server and by the given web hosting plan. That entails the second important question:

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

Web hosting firms that distribute website hosting plans typically have various web hosting plans. Those plans provide different amounts of hosting resources and specs, which actually fix the limits that a web hosting plan will have. The customer may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what limitations the customer's account will include, once created. The costs and the specs of the web hosting packages are specified by the specific web hosting vendor. Depending on the politics of the company, the website hosting solution falls into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the typical shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to assert, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they actually are subject to the business strategy of the specific vendor and, of course, the requirements of the specific client.

What is the contrast between the free of charge and the classic website hosting solution?

Of course, the chief difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they include. Free website hosting vendors are not able to maintain an immense number of web servers, hence, they just host more users on one single server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the servers are kept under surveillance and administered properly, since the immense amount of accounts may cause the server to crash time and time again. Most of the free website hosting distributors, though, ignore the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite tough to come across a free web hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting corporations usually offer free technical support even to the free website hosting users, since they want their web sites to expand so that they eventually migrate to a paid website hosting account, which includes more web hosting features. Such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free web hosting firms in the world.

At the same time, established website hosting companies such as us, are able to maintain plenty of hosting servers and therefore, we are able to offer much more feature-rich web hosting plans. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web hosting package, however, does not necessarily mean that this solution has a finer quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're obtaining. Also, we also give a free extra with the website hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of fee-free themes. As a web hosting companie, we do care about our good name and that's why if you go with us, you can rest certain that you won't get beguiled into paying for an account that you cannot actually make use of.

What should I expect from a website hosting service?

The website hosting service is best for persons who wish to host a basic web site, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a website hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business grows bigger, your web page will become more and more demanding. Therefore, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more powerful web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (aka a private virtual hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. So, when selecting a web hosting company, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain manually to a different vendor, which can bring about web site predicaments and even continued downtime for your web page. If you choose Host Diversity as your website hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is vital and will spare you lots of frustrations in the future.