Shared Hosting Description

The most fundamental and universally used type of web hosting is the hosting service. It's a means to host your site without having to know much about programming and managing a server. Furthermore, it's also the most inexpensive form of web hosting and it's very affordable for anybody. However, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name hints, the hosting solution is a type of service where plenty of users share the resources of the same hosting server. This goes to say that all server constituents such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, NICs and so on, are shared among the clients whose accounts are on that very same server. This is mostly rendered attainable by setting up separate accounts for the different clients and setting specific limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are set in order to prevent the customers from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the hosting server from overburdening. Usually, hosting users do not have root-level access to the web server's configuration files, which principally suggests that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server but their own website hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may use are fixed by the hosting provider that possesses the server and by the given web hosting plan. That paves the way for the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers split among the customers?

Web hosting distributors that supply hosting solutions commonly have diverse web hosting packages. Those packages involve different quotas of website hosting resources and specs, which actually determine the limitations that a website hosting account will have. The user may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The website hosting plan will then determine what limitations the customer's account will have, once created. The costs and the features of the web hosting packages are chosen by the actual web hosting supplier. Depending on the politics of the supplier, the hosting service can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting service and the classic shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to affirm, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed depend on the business policy of the specific vendor and, of course, the demands of the specific customer.

What is the distinction between the free and the classic hosting service?

Of course, the chief difference between the free and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they include. Free web hosting distributors are not capable of maintaining a big amount of servers, therefore, they merely host more customers on one server by decreasing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are monitored and handled properly, because the great number of accounts may cause the server to crash time and time again. The majority of the free website hosting suppliers, however, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's quite difficult to find a free web hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting providers commonly provide free client support even to the free web hosting clients, since they want their websites to grow bigger so that they eventually move to a paid website hosting package, which includes more website hosting features. Such vendor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free web hosting companies worldwide.

On the other hand, established hosting providers such as us, are able to keep a lot of web hosting servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a hosting service, however, does not necessarily denote that this package has a better quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that corresponds to the real service which you're obtaining. In addition, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of charge-free design layouts. As a hosting distributor, we do look after our good name and that's why if you pick us, you can be calm that you won't get fooled into paying for a package that you cannot in fact use.

What should I anticipate from a hosting service?

The hosting service is best for those who want to host a normal web site, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business develops, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated packages, a VPS (aka a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. So, when picking a website hosting vendor, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up moving your domain manually to a different distributor, which can create website complications and even continuous downtime for your web page. If you select VillpressHost as your website hosting supplier, 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 a lot of difficulties in the long run.