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What Does Shared Web Hosting Represent?

The most principal and widely availed of sort of web hosting is the website hosting solution. It's a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and running a server. In addition to that, it's also the most economical type of website hosting and it's very affordable for everyone. Nevertheless, what is website hosting?

What is website hosting?

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As the name indicates, the website hosting solution is a type of service where many clients share the system resources of the same web hosting server. This implies that all server components like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network cards and so on, are allotted among the customers whose accounts are on that same server. This is typically made achievable by opening separate accounts for the different users and appointing some restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are imposed in order to prevent the users from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overburdening. Typically, website hosting users do not have full root-level access to the web server's config files, which principally indicates that they do not have access to anything else on the server apart from their very own website hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may utilize are set by the hosting vendor that owns the server and by the given web hosting package. That leads to the second essential question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Web hosting firms that furnish website hosting plans commonly have various hosting plans. Those packages offer different amounts of hosting resources and specifications, which actually define the restrictions that a website hosting package will have. The client may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The website hosting plan will then define what restrictions the customer's account will include, once opened. The costs and the specs of the web hosting plans are fixed by the actual web hosting provider. Depending on the politics of the distributor, the website hosting service falls into two groups - the free hosting solution and the common shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" traders as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to say, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they really are dependent on the business tactics of the specific supplier and, of course, the demands of the particular user.

What is the contrast between the free of charge and the standard website hosting service?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the amount of features that they offer. Free website hosting providers are not able to maintain a big number of web servers, hence, they simply host more customers on one web server by lowering the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only if the web servers are supervised and maintained appropriately, because the immense number of accounts may make the web server crash frequently. The majority of the free hosting corporations, however, overlook the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite tough to find a free of cost website hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting vendors usually offer free client support even to the free hosting customers, because they want their websites to grow bigger so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting package, which offers more web hosting features. Such company, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free web hosting providers worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional website hosting firms such as us, are able to maintain multiple servers and therefore, we are able to offer much more powerful website hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a website hosting package, however, does not necessarily denote that this plan has a finer quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that matches the concrete service which you're obtaining. Also, we also provide a free bonus with the hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free web site themes. As a website hosting distributor, we do look after our good name and that is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest confident that you won't get deceived into paying for a package that you cannot actually avail of.

What should I expect from a website hosting solution?

The website hosting service is best for persons who would like to host a basic site, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a website hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business develops, your website will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting service like a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (aka a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. Therefore, when picking a website hosting supplier, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up moving your domain manually to a different company, which can create site complications and even extended downtime for your web site. If you pick 7GreatMedia Hosting Services as your website hosting company, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will save you a lot of frustrations in the long run.