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What Precisely is Shared Web Hosting?

The most elemental and widely utilized form of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It's a means to host your site without having to know much about programming and managing a server. In addition to this, it's also the most inexpensive type of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. However, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

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As the name indicates, the shared hosting service is a form of service where lots of customers share the resources of the same hosting server. This means that all web server components such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are allotted among the customers whose accounts are on that same web server. This is usually made tenable by opening separate accounts for the different customers and appointing certain limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limits are imposed in order to prevent the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Usually, shared hosting users do not have full root access to the web server's configuration files, which essentially denotes that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server but their very own hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may use are determined by the hosting provider that owns the web hosting server and by the given website hosting plan. That necessitates the second vital question:

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

Hosting suppliers that deliver shared hosting services normally have diverse website hosting plans. Those packages provide diverse amounts of website hosting features and specifications, which actually determine the limitations that a web hosting plan will include. The customer may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will fit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what restrictions the customer's account will have, once set up. The prices and the specs of the web hosting plans are defined by the particular hosting company. Based on the policy of the company, the shared hosting solution can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting service and the normal shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" merchandisers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to allege, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed depend on the business policy of the particular corporation and, of course, the demands of the specific user.

What is the difference between the free and the classic shared hosting solution?

Of course, the main difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they involve. Free web hosting vendors are not able to maintain a huge amount of web hosting servers, hence, they merely host more users on a single server by lowering the amount of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the servers are supervised and administered appropriately, because the immense amount of accounts may make the server crash on a regular basis. The majority of the free web hosting providers, though, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's very tough to find a free of charge web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting suppliers commonly provide free technical support even to the free hosting clients, because they want their websites to get bigger so that they subsequently migrate to a paid hosting package, which offers more web hosting features. Such corporation, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free hosting distributors worldwide.

At the same time, traditional shared hosting firms like us, are able to keep plenty of web hosting servers and so, we are able to provide much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting package, however, does not automatically denote that this solution has a finer quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the real service which you're receiving. In addition, we also provide a free extra with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free-of-cost templates. As a website hosting companie, we do worry about our good name and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can be calm that you won't get deluded into buying a package that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for individuals who want to host a normal website, which is going to use a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business grows bigger, your site will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to ultimately move to a more feature-rich website hosting service like a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (aka a virtual private web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a web hosting vendor, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a separate provider, which can cause site predicaments and even continued downtime for your website. If you select Prime Host as your web hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you lots of problems in the future.