How Does Shared Website Hosting Work?

The most basic and frequently utilized variety of web hosting is the website hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your web page without having to understand much about programming and managing a hosting server. Additionally, it's also the cheapest type of web hosting and it's indeed affordable for anybody. Still, what is website hosting?

What is website hosting?

As the name designates, the website hosting service is a sort of service where many clients share the resources of the same web hosting server. This means that all web hosting server ingredients like CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs and so on, are shared among the users whose accounts are on that very same web server. This is mostly made achievable by creating separate accounts for the separate users and imposing given restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are applied in order to hinder the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, website hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the server's config files, which primarily indicates that they do not have access to anything else on the web server but their own web hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may utilize are determined by the web hosting company that owns the hosting server and by the given web hosting package. That brings about the second important question:

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

Hosting corporations that distribute website hosting plans commonly have various website hosting packages. Those plans contain diverse amounts of web hosting features and specifications, which in fact set the restrictions that a web hosting package will include. The user 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 define what restrictions the customer's account will include, once set up. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting plans are chosen by the specific hosting firm. Based on the politics of the provider, the website hosting service falls into 2 types - the free hosting solution and the typical shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" sellers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to judge, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from one another and they actually depend on the marketing policy of the specific vendor and, of course, the needs of the particular user.

What is the contrast between the free of charge and the common website hosting service?

Of course, the essential difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they contain. Free website hosting providers are not capable of keeping an immense number of web servers, therefore, they merely host more customers on one single web hosting server by lowering the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the hosting servers are monitored and dealt with appropriately, since the huge number of accounts may make the hosting server crash again and again. Most of the free website hosting corporations, however, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to come across a free of charge web hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting corporations typically provide free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, since they want their web portals to get bigger so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which includes more web hosting resources. One such supplier, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free web hosting distributors worldwide.

At the same time, traditional website hosting providers like us, may afford to keep lots of servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting package, however, does not automatically denote that this solution has a better quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the real service which you're obtaining. Moreover, we also give a free extra with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of complimentary web design skins. As a website hosting corporation, we do worry about our good name and that is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest calm that you won't get deluded into buying an account that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a website hosting solution?

The website hosting solution is best for people who are looking to host a normal site, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot expect, though, that a website hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business enlarges, your website will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more powerful web hosting service like a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (aka a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. So, when selecting a website hosting supplier, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a different distributor, which can create web site troubles and even extended downtime for your site. If you choose Delva Cloud as your hosting supplier, 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 spare you a lot of hassles in the future.