How Does Shared Hosting Work?

How Does Shared Hosting Work?

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The most elemental and popularly availed of kind of web hosting is the web hosting service. It's a way to host your web page without having to know much about programming and handling a hosting server. What's more, it's also the cheapest form of hosting and it's in fact affordable for anybody. However, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name designates, the web hosting service is a sort of service where numerous customers share the resources of one and the same server. This implies that all server components like CPU, hard drives, RAM, network cards and so on, are distributed among the clients whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is usually made possible by opening different accounts for the separate clients and assigning specific limits and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are allocated in order to hinder the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overburdening. Normally, web hosting clients do not have full root access to the web hosting server's config files, which principally signifies that they cannot access anything else on the server but their own personal web hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may use are set by the web hosting vendor that owns the hosting server and by the particular web hosting plan. That leads up to the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the users?

Web hosting providers that distribute web hosting solutions typically have diverse web hosting plans. Those packages provide different quotas of website hosting features and specifications, which in fact determine the limitations that a web hosting plan will include. The customer may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what limitations the user's account will involve, once opened. The prices and the specifications of the web hosting packages are determined by the actual web hosting vendor. Based on the policy of the company, the web hosting service can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the classic shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" wholesalers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are subject to the business tactics of the specific distributor and, of course, the demands of the particular customer.

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

Of course, the main difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they offer. Free web hosting distributors are not able to maintain a huge amount of servers, therefore, they merely host more customers on a single web server by reducing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the hosting servers are supervised and dealt with appropriately, because the big amount of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash again and again. The majority of the free website hosting distributors, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite difficult to stumble upon a free web hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting distributors typically offer free client support even to the free website hosting clients, because they want their web pages to get bigger so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid website hosting package, which includes more hosting features. One such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free website hosting corporations in the world.

On the other hand, established web hosting providers such as us, are able to maintain a lot of web servers and hence, we may afford to provide much more powerful website hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting plan, though, does not necessarily mean that this plan has a finer quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the actual service which you're getting. Besides, we also offer a free bonus with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of fee-free web page skins. As a hosting vendor, we do worry about our reputation and that's why if you go with us, you can be calm that you won't get duped into buying a service that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting solution?

The web hosting solution is best for individuals who wish to host an average web portal, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot expect, however, that a web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business gets bigger, your website will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (aka a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. So, when choosing a website hosting company, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different distributor, which can create web site troubles and even continuous downtime for your site. If you choose JCA Hosting as your web hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is essential and will spare you a lot of hassles in the future.

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