What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

The most elemental and widely availed of sort of web hosting is the website hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your site without having to know much about programming and managing a hosting server. What's more, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Still, what is website hosting?

What is website hosting?

As the name indicates, the website hosting service is a sort of service where plenty of users share the system reserves of the same hosting server. This implies that all web hosting server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are split among the users whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is normally rendered accomplishable by opening different accounts for the separate customers and applying specific limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are applied so as to hinder the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the server from overburdening. Usually, website hosting customers do not have root access to the server's config files, which primarily implies that they cannot access anything else on the web server beside their own personal hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are determined by the web hosting vendor that possesses the web hosting server and by the respective web hosting package. That paves the way for the second important question:

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

Web hosting distributors that offer website hosting solutions normally have different website hosting packages. Those plans provide diverse quotas of hosting resources and specs, which in fact define the limitations that a website hosting plan will include. The client may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The web hosting package will then define what limits the client's account will have, once created. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting plans are specified by the given hosting firm. Based on the politics of the supplier, the website hosting solution can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting service and the popular shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" traders as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed are subject to the business strategy of the particular distributor and, of course, the demands of the particular user.

What is the distinction between the free of charge and the common website hosting solution?

Of course, the chief difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the amount of resources that they contain. Free web hosting suppliers are not capable of keeping an immense number of web hosting servers, therefore, they just accommodate more users on one hosting server by lowering the amount of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the web hosting servers are monitored and tackled appropriately, since the big amount of accounts may make the web hosting server crash frequently. Most of the free web hosting companies, however, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's quite difficult to find a free hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting suppliers normally provide free technical support even to the free web hosting clients, because they want their sites to enlarge so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which offers more web hosting resources. Such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free website hosting firms worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional website hosting suppliers like us, may afford to keep plenty of web hosting servers and as a result, we are able to provide much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting service, however, does not automatically signify that this solution has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that matches the actual service which you're receiving. Furthermore, we also provide a free bonus with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of cost-free design templates. As a website hosting corporation, we do worry about our good name and that is the reason why if you choose us, you can rest assured that you won't get deluded into paying for a package that you cannot actually avail of.

What should I expect from a website hosting service?

The website hosting service is best for persons who would like to host a basic web site, which is going to use a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a website hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more powerful web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (a.k.a. a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. So, when selecting a hosting provider, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up moving your domain manually to a different company, which can bring about web site predicaments and even continuous downtime for your web site. If you choose MalangHost as your web hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of frustrations in the future.