A description of site hosting

The most standard and frequently availed of variety of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It represents a means to host your website without having to know much about programming and administering a server. Additionally, it's also the most inexpensive form of web site hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. Still, what is shared webspace hosting?

What is shared web space hosting?

As the name implies, the shared site hosting service is a sort of service where lots of customers share the system reserves of one and the same web hosting server. This means that all web server components such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are apportioned among the clients whose accounts are on that same server. This is usually made tenable by setting up different accounts for the separate customers and appointing certain limits and usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are assigned so as to hinder the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overloading. Normally, shared hosting customers do not have complete root access to the web server's config files, which principally indicates that they cannot access anything else on the web server beside their own personal shared web hosting account. The web site hosting features that each account may resort to are set by the web hosting provider that possesses the web hosting server and by the particular web space hosting package. That results in the second vital question:

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

Web hosting companies that supply shared web page hosting solutions usually have diverse webspace hosting plans. Those packages provide different quotas of webspace hosting features and specifications, which in fact set the restrictions that a hosting package will include. The user may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The webspace hosting package will then determine what limitations the customer's account will include, once created. The costs and the specs of the site hosting packages are defined by the given web hosting vendor. Depending on the politics of the provider, the shared web site hosting solution falls into two types - the free hosting solution and the common shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" sellers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to affirm, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed depend on the marketing tactics of the given corporation and, of course, the demands of the specific user.

What is the distinction between the free of cost and the regular shared website hosting service?

Of course, the main difference between the free and the paid service is in the amount of resources that they involve. Free site hosting firms are not able to maintain a great number of web hosting servers, therefore, they plainly accommodate more clients on one single hosting server by decreasing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the servers are supervised and maintained appropriately, because the huge number of accounts may cause the server to crash frequently. Most of the free webspace hosting distributors, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to find a free of cost webspace hosting service that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting suppliers normally provide free customer support even to the free site hosting users, since they want their sites to enlarge so that they eventually move to a paid site hosting account, which includes more webspace hosting resources. One such supplier, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and eldest free web site hosting providers worldwide.

At the same time, established shared web hosting providers such as Classic Media, for example, are able to keep lots of web hosting servers and therefore, they may afford to provide much more feature-rich webspace hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting service, though, does not necessarily mean that this account has a better quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the real service which you're obtaining. The best website hosting companies that have been around for quite some time are exhibiting their prices and plan specs in a realistic way, so that the client may acquainted with what in fact he is obtaining. Besides, some of these provide a free bonus with the web space hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of fee-free website themes that are provided by 'Classic Media'. Such webspace hosting distributors do look after their reputation and that is the reason why if you select them, you can be confident that you won't get beguiled into paying for a solution that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I expect from a shared web page hosting solution?

The shared web hosting service is best for those who would like to host an average site, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared web site hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business gets bigger, your website will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich web space hosting solution like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (a.k.a. a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a web site hosting provider, you should also consider how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a different distributor, which can bring about website complications and even continued downtime for your site. Therefore, choosing a website hosting distributor like 'Classic Media', which can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is essential and will save you a lot of headaches in the future.