What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

As its name denotes, shared hosting is a service, which involves hosting online content. There are various varieties and kinds of web hosting, depending on the purpose and on the functions. Still, they all refer to hosting files, which, once hosted, are made accessible throughout the Web. A host is in fact a hosting server that is linked to the Web and has its own IP address, which allows people to have access to it through the Internet. The server's architecture and its resources depend on the form of hosting service it's going to be used for.

What are the different forms of web hosting?

Based on the mission, the professional web hosting solution may be:

File Storage Hosting - this form of web hosting enables the clients to keep their files on a certain web hosting server. With the classic file storage web hosting service, the files that are hosted may only be accessed by the user that's using the service. This hosting solution normally includes backups of PCs , docs, private files and even other web hosting servers. This solution may also have given limitations in relation to the server storage space and the root access. There may also be web traffic limitations, but that is dependent on the actual host.

Warez Hosting - the so-called warez hosting solution is comparable with the previous web hosting service type. However, unlike the file storage web hosting service, the warez web hosting solution is used for distributing patented work without being given the OK to do so by the licence holder. To put it briefly - it entails the illicit transmission of files and documents. There are a lot of approaches for this to be achieved, but the 2 essential methods are - through plain Hypertext Transfer Protocol downloading and through P2P connections. The first one involves either a specific web portal, or, most typically, just a directory on a server that's been made available for everyone to access it and thereby download copyrighted materials for free. The second way involves a peer-to-peer connection, availing of the so-called Torrent servers, through which users share files between each other. There are just a few website hosting providers that allow that type of hosting on their servers, mostly because of all the legal problems that it entails. Commonly such sites are hosted on private dedicated servers that are registered by third-party corporations either in the Middle East or in Asia.

Email Web Hosting - this service is relevant with both shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting servers, based on the customer's desire. If you desire to launch your own private SMTP email server, then you will require either a virtual private web hosting server or a dedicated hosting server that provides the level of access needed to complete such a procedure. For typical mail hosting purposes, however, you can avail of a plain shared web hosting account, to which you can point the MX records of your domain name. This is not a solution that's widely popular, because the website hosting and the e-mail hosting services are being served by two different web servers, usually belonging to separate providers.

Shared Hosting - the most widely spread and regularly used hosting service now. It's utilized for hosting web site files, whose type depends on the Operating System the web server is availing of - Linux or Windows. Different kinds of files request specific web server Operating Systems, otherwise they won't be exhibited accurately on the Internet. This sort of hosting may include web storage and traffic restrictions, root access and central processing unit usage limits.

Depending on the goals and on the usage, the customer should pick the kind of hosting server that he needs for his project, and, of course, the web hosting corporation that's going to furnish it. There are various types of servers, based on the configuration and the website hosting solutions that they offer. These are:

Shared Web Hosting Server - a shared web hosting server provides a smaller amount of system resources, which, of course, is reflected on the price of the service. It can be utilized for hosting small size and medium size sites, which do not need considerable quotas of data storage space and web traffic.

Semi-dedicated Servers - they function on the very same principle as the shared web hosting servers. In spite of that, there are much fewer clients hosted on the same web server. Because of that, each of them will enjoy a bigger share of the web server's resources like RAM, disk space, web traffic and CPU. Perfect for hosting bulky websites that do not demand complete root access.

Virtual private servers are ideal for medium sized web portals, which do require root-level access to the hosting server's config files. Usually, there are a number of virtual private web hosting server accounts situated on the same machine. Nevertheless, each of them is independent from the rest and runs its own Operating System.

Dedicated Server - a completely dedicated web server configured and accessed by you and solely you. It ensures a vast amount of system resources. It also offers server root access, which renders it the optimal environment for any kind of online portal that necessitates a web hosting solution.

The sole question that remains is:

Which web hosting supplier should I choose?

As stated above, there aren't many providers providing warez hosting solutions because of judicial predicaments. Such companies are being closed down practically every month. For that reason, if you would like to launch such a service, you should do it on your own personal computer. The shared web hosting solution is the most famous kind of web hosting service. So, each and every website hosting distributor provides it. Not all of them, however, provide solutions such as private virtual servers, Semi-dedicated Servers and dedicated servers. Most of the small scale web hosting distributors do not have the means demanded for maintaining those services. You can quickly recognize such hosting companies by the types of solutions that they are supplying and by the manner in which they introduce them to the clients. For instance, some hosting companies permit you to kick off with a low-end website hosting account and then move to a bigger one, if you consider it mandatory to do so. This is quite convenient, because you do not have to migrate websites between web servers and there is no possibility of suffering network downtime due to all the complications that may take place.

We, at Prime Host offer all sorts of solutions and possess the needed web server resources and staff to ensure that their clients will not run into any hassles when changing services, which is what a top hosting provider is actually all about.