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An explanation of web hosting

The most fundamental and widely availed of kind of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It's a way to host your web site without having to be much informed about programming and administering a web hosting server. Besides, it's also the cheapest type of web site hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared web space hosting?

As the name designates, the shared website hosting service is a kind of service where numerous users share the system resources of one and the same hosting server. This indicates that all web server components such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are shared among the customers whose accounts are on that very same hosting server. This is mostly made possible by creating different accounts for the separate users and fixing specific limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are applied in order to prevent the users from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overburdening. Typically, shared web page hosting users do not have complete root access to the web server's configuration files, which principally suggests that they cannot access anything else on the server apart from their own shared web hosting account. The site hosting resources that each account may resort to are determined by the web hosting supplier that owns the web server and by the given web site hosting plan. That results in the second vital question:

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

Web hosting providers that supply shared webspace hosting accounts normally have various hosting plans. Those plans provide diverse quotas of webspace hosting resources and specifications, which in fact set the restrictions that a webspace hosting plan will have. The user may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The website hosting plan will then determine what restrictions the client's account will involve, once set up. The prices and the specifications of the hosting plans are defined by the very web hosting corporation. Based on the politics of the vendor, the shared webspace hosting service falls into two groups - the free hosting solution and the typical shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to allege, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed depend on the business strategy of the specific provider and, of course, the requirements of the given client.

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

Of course, the main difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they include. Free web site hosting firms are not able to keep a large number of servers, therefore, they plainly host more users on one web hosting server by lowering the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only if the web servers are kept under surveillance and dealt with appropriately, since the immense amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash frequently. Most of the free web hosting providers, though, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite tough to stumble upon a free webspace hosting service that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting corporations normally offer free client support even to the free site hosting customers, because they want their web pages to get bigger so that they eventually move to a paid site hosting plan, which includes more webspace hosting resources. One such corporation, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and oldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional shared web hosting providers like Exclusive Hosting, for example, are able to maintain many hosting servers and hence, they are able to provide much more feature-rich web space hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the site hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a hosting account, though, does not necessarily imply that this service has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're receiving. The best web space hosting corporations that have been around for quite a while are revealing their prices and plan specs in an objective fashion, so that the customer may familiar with what in fact he is getting. Furthermore, some of them give a free extra with the hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of gratis web templates that are provided by 'Exclusive Hosting'. Such web space hosting companies do worry about their reputation and that is the reason why if you pick them, you can be calm that you won't get beguiled into purchasing a service that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I expect from a shared site hosting service?

The shared web page hosting service is best for those who would like to host an average web page, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared web hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business gets bigger, your website will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to eventually migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (a.k.a. a virtual web server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when selecting a webspace hosting vendor, you should also consider how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up moving your domain name manually to a separate vendor, which can create site troubles and even extended downtime for your web portal. Therefore, going with a site hosting distributor like 'Exclusive Hosting', which can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will spare you lots of inconveniences in the future.