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An explanation of web space hosting

The most standard and widely utilized form of web hosting is the shared web hosting solution. It's a means to host your web site without having to know much about programming and running a web server. In addition to this, it's also the most inexpensive form of web hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Nevertheless, what is shared web site hosting?

What is shared web space hosting?

As the name denotes, the shared web space hosting service is a sort of service where plenty of clients share the system resources of the same server. This denotes that all server components like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are distributed among the users whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly made attainable by opening different accounts for the separate clients and applying specific restrictions and quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are assigned in order to prevent the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overloading. Usually, shared website hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the hosting server's config files, which principally denotes that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server but their own personal shared web hosting account. The web site hosting features that each account may resort to are determined by the hosting supplier that possesses the web server and by the given web site hosting package. That causes the second essential question:

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

Hosting suppliers that deliver shared web hosting solutions usually have diverse webspace hosting packages. Those plans contain different amounts of web hosting features and specs, which actually determine the limitations that a website hosting plan will have. The user may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The site hosting plan will then determine what limitations the user's account will include, once opened. The costs and the specs of the site hosting plans are determined by the specific hosting provider. Depending on the politics of the supplier, the shared web space hosting service falls into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the common shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" retailers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from one another and they really depend on the business strategy of the particular corporation and, of course, the demands of the given client.

What is the contrast between the free and the standard shared website hosting solution?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they contain. Free web site hosting corporations are not able to keep a large number of hosting servers, hence, they just accommodate more customers on a single web server by reducing the amount of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the web hosting servers are monitored and tackled properly, because the big number of accounts may cause the server to crash frequently. The majority of the free webspace hosting distributors, however, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite tough to discover a free of charge web space hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting firms usually offer free technical support even to the free web site hosting customers, because they want their web pages to enlarge so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid website hosting package, which offers more site hosting features. Such company, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free site hosting vendors worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional shared web hosting distributors such as NTC Hosting, for example, may afford to keep numerous web hosting servers and therefore, they may afford to offer much more powerful hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web site hosting plan, though, does not automatically imply that this solution has a finer quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the real service which you're getting. The best site hosting distributors that have been around for quite some time are exhibiting their price tags and plan specifications in a realistic manner, so that the customer may be informed of what exactly he is obtaining. In addition, some of them offer a free bonus with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of gratis design templates that are offered by 'NTC Hosting'. Such webspace hosting companies do look after their reputation and this is the reason why if you go with them, you can rest certain that you won't get deluded into buying an account that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I expect from a shared web site hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for persons who would like to host a standard web site, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared web page hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business enlarges, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to eventually migrate to a more feature-rich site hosting solution like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when choosing a hosting company, you should also think about how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain name manually to a different company, which can create web site troubles and even extended downtime for your web site. Hence, picking a web space hosting supplier like 'NTC Hosting', which can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you a lot of complications in the long run.