What Does Shared Website Hosting Represent?

The most basic and commonly used form of web hosting is the hosting service. It's a means to host your site without having to know much about programming and operating a hosting server. Besides, it's also the most economical form of website hosting and it's indeed affordable for anybody. Nonetheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name designates, the hosting solution is a form of service where multiple users share the system reserves of the same web hosting server. This suggests that all hosting server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are divided among the users whose accounts are on that same server. This is normally rendered attainable by setting up different accounts for the different customers and applying some limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are applied in order to restrain the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overburdening. Usually, hosting clients do not have complete root-level access to the server's config files, which basically indicates that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server apart from their own personal web hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may avail of are set by the web hosting provider that owns the server and by the given website hosting plan. That brings about the second important question:

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

Hosting providers that furnish hosting services typically have various web hosting packages. Those plans include diverse amounts of website hosting resources and specs, which actually set the limits that a web hosting plan will include. The client may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what limits the user's account will involve, once set up. The prices and the specs of the hosting packages are determined by the actual web hosting provider. Depending on the politics of the company, the hosting service can be divided into two categories - the free hosting solution and the common shared solution, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they actually depend on the business strategy of the given distributor and, of course, the requirements of the given customer.

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

Of course, the essential difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they provide. Free web hosting corporations are not capable of maintaining a big number of hosting servers, therefore, they merely accommodate more clients on one web hosting server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the web hosting servers are kept under surveillance and maintained appropriately, since the immense number of accounts may causer the web server to crash time and time again. Most of the free web hosting corporations, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's very tough to find a free website hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting corporations typically offer free client support even to the free web hosting users, because they want their web portals to expand so that they eventually migrate to a paid website hosting plan, which includes more website hosting resources. One such provider, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free website hosting companies worldwide.

At the same time, established hosting suppliers like us, may afford to keep numerous web hosting servers and hence, we are able to offer 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 website hosting service, though, does not automatically signify that this plan has a better quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which involve a price that corresponds to the actual service which you're receiving. Additionally, we also give a free bonus with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of fee-free website skins. As a website hosting vendor, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you select us, you can be calm that you won't get duped into paying for a plan that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I expect from a hosting service?

The hosting solution is best for those who desire to host a standard web portal, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business enlarges, your website will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to ultimately move to a more powerful hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated packages, a VPS (a.k.a. a virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. So, when selecting a web hosting supplier, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a different supplier, which can bring about site complications and even prolonged downtime for your web page. If you choose VillpressHost as your web hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is crucial and will save you lots of frustrations in the future.