Shared Website Hosting Description

The most primary and commonly availed of kind of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It's a way to host your web portal without having to be much informed about programming and handling a hosting server. Besides, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's very affordable for anybody. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name suggests, the shared hosting solution is a kind of service where lots of customers share the resources of the same web server. This means that all hosting server constituents such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs and so on, are apportioned among the clients whose accounts are on that same server. This is mainly rendered viable by opening different accounts for the different users and setting given limitations and quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are fixed in order to hinder the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overburdening. Normally, shared hosting clients do not have root access to the server's configuration files, which principally indicates that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server apart from their own web hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may resort to are fixed by the web hosting supplier that possesses the web server and by the respective website hosting plan. That leads to the second vital question:

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

Web hosting suppliers that furnish shared hosting plans usually have various web hosting plans. Those packages involve diverse amounts of web hosting features and specs, which actually determine the restrictions that a hosting package will have. The client may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The hosting plan will then determine what limits the client's account will involve, once created. The costs and the features of the hosting plans are set by the very web hosting distributor. Based on the politics of the distributor, the shared hosting solution falls into two types - the free hosting solution and the standard shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" wholesalers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to announce, which one is better, since they are very different from one another and they actually are dependent on the marketing strategy of the given supplier and, of course, the needs of the given customer.

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

Of course, the principal difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they provide. Free website hosting firms are not able to keep a great amount of web servers, hence, they merely host more customers on one server by decreasing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web hosting servers are monitored and administered properly, since the large number of accounts may make the web server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free web hosting corporations, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to come across a free web hosting solution that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting companies normally provide free customer support even to the free web hosting clients, because they want their sites to enlarge so that they eventually upgrade to a paid website hosting package, which offers more website hosting resources. Such distributor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free web hosting vendors in the world.

At the same time, traditional shared hosting vendors such as us, may afford to keep many web servers and as a result, we are able to provide much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting account, however, does not automatically signify that this account has a finer quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the real service which you're obtaining. In addition, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of charge-free web design themes. As a web hosting supplier, we do look after our reputation and that is the reason why if you choose us, you can be certain that you won't get duped into paying for a plan that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I expect from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting service is best for people who wish to host a standard web portal, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business enlarges, your web portal 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 virtual private servers (aka a private virtual server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when selecting a web hosting provider, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up migrating your domain manually to a different company, which can cause site troubles and even extended downtime for your website. If you choose Host Magi as your website hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is essential and will save you a lot of inconveniences in the future.