What Precisely is Shared Hosting?

The most basic and widely used form of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It's a way to host your web site without having to be much informed about programming and running a web server. Moreover, it's also the most inexpensive form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for everybody. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name indicates, the shared hosting service is a form of service where lots of customers share the resources of the same hosting server. This implies that all server constituents such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are split among the clients whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is typically made achievable by setting up different accounts for the different customers and setting given limits and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are applied so as to hinder the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overloading. Usually, shared hosting users do not have root-level access to the web server's configuration files, which primarily implies that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server aside from their own web hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are set by the web hosting firm that owns the web server and by the given web hosting plan. That necessitates the second important question:

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

Hosting suppliers that furnish shared hosting services commonly have different web hosting packages. Those packages contain different quotas of web hosting features and specs, which actually set the limitations that a web hosting account will include. The customer may pick between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will fit him best. The hosting package will then define what limits the customer's account will include, once set up. The costs and the specifications of the website hosting packages are chosen by the particular hosting distributor. Based on the policy of the company, the shared hosting solution falls into two categories - the free hosting service and the standard shared solution, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to tell, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they really are determined by the business strategy of the specific corporation and, of course, the requirements of the particular client.

What is the contrast between the free of cost and the popular shared hosting service?

Of course, the essential difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they contain. Free website hosting companies are not capable of maintaining a large number of web hosting servers, hence, they just host more customers on one server by decreasing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the web servers are monitored and tackled appropriately, because the great number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash over and over again. Most of the free website hosting corporations, though, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite difficult to stumble upon a free of cost website hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting distributors normally offer free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, since they want their sites to expand so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting package, which includes more website hosting resources. Such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.

On the other hand, established shared hosting providers such as us, may afford to maintain multiple web servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich web hosting plans. Of course, that influences the pricing of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web hosting plan, though, does not necessarily mean that this plan has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the real service which you're getting. Besides, we also provide a free bonus with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free site layouts. As a website hosting vendor, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you pick us, you can rest assured that you won't get hoaxed into paying for a solution that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I expect from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for individuals who wish to host a normal web page, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business develops, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS hosting (aka a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a website hosting provider, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up migrating your domain manually to a different provider, which can bring about website problems and even extended downtime for your site. If you pick Su Host as your web hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will save you lots of difficulties in the future.