What Indeed is Shared Hosting?

The most primary and widely availed of kind of web hosting is the hosting service. It's a means to host your web page without having to know much about programming and administrating a hosting server. Furthermore, it's also the most inexpensive type of website hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. Nonetheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name designates, the hosting solution is a form of service where numerous users share the resources of one and the same server. This denotes that all web hosting server ingredients like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards etc. are allotted among the customers whose accounts are on that same web server. This is normally rendered attainable by opening separate accounts for the separate users and allocating some restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are assigned so as to hinder the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Normally, hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the server's configuration files, which primarily suggests that they cannot access anything else on the web server but their own personal web hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may resort to are determined by the web hosting vendor that owns the server and by the particular web hosting plan. That paves the way for the second important question:

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

Hosting suppliers that distribute hosting plans typically have various website hosting plans. Those packages contain different quotas of web hosting features and specs, which in fact set the restrictions that a website hosting package will include. The customer may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what limits the client's account will involve, once created. The prices and the specifications of the web hosting plans are fixed by the given web hosting company. Depending on the policy of the supplier, the hosting solution can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the common shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" sellers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to judge, which one is better, since they are very different from one another and they actually are dependent on the business policy of the particular firm and, of course, the requirements of the specific client.

What is the contrast between the free and the common hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they include. Free website hosting firms are not able to maintain a big number of web hosting servers, hence, they merely host more customers on one web hosting server by decreasing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are supervised and tackled appropriately, because the large number of accounts may cause the server to crash time and time again. Most of the free web hosting suppliers, however, ignore the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite tough to discover a free of cost website hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting providers usually offer free customer support even to the free hosting clients, since they want their websites to get bigger so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid website hosting package, which includes more website hosting features. One such provider, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free website hosting corporations in the world.

At the same time, traditional hosting firms like us, may afford to keep plenty of web servers and so, we may afford to provide much more powerful website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the pricing of the hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting service, though, does not necessarily imply that this plan has a better quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which involve a price that corresponds to the real service which you're receiving. Moreover, we also provide a free bonus with the website hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of charge-free design templates. As a website hosting distributor, we do care about our good name and that's why if you pick us, you can be assured that you won't get deceived into buying a plan that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I anticipate from a hosting service?

The hosting service is best for individuals who want to host an average web page, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business grows bigger, your web page will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (also known as a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when picking a web hosting supplier, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain manually to a different provider, which can cause website problems and even continuous downtime for your web portal. If you choose NTyT as your website hosting company, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you lots of annoyances in the future.