What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

The most archetypal and widely utilized sort of web hosting is the website hosting solution. It represents a means to host your web page without having to be much informed about programming and managing a web server. Additionally, it's also the cheapest form of website hosting and it's in fact affordable for anybody. However, what is website hosting?

What is website hosting?

As the name hints, the website hosting service is a form of service where numerous customers share the resources of one and the same web hosting server. This denotes that all hosting server constituents like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are divided among the clients whose accounts are on that same server. This is typically rendered attainable by opening separate accounts for the different customers and imposing certain limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limits are assigned in order to hinder the users from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overburdening. Normally, website hosting customers do not have complete root access to the web server's configuration files, which principally goes to say that they cannot access anything else on the web server beside their own web hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are determined by the web hosting provider that owns the web hosting server and by the particular web hosting plan. That entails the second vital question:

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

Web hosting distributors that supply website hosting plans typically have various web hosting plans. Those packages involve diverse quotas of website hosting features and specifications, which actually fix the restrictions that a website hosting package will include. The customer may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The web hosting plan will then determine what limits the user's account will involve, once set up. The prices and the specs of the web hosting packages are determined by the given web hosting distributor. Based on the policy of the supplier, the website hosting solution can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the normal shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" corporations as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to tell, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they actually depend on the business policy of the given corporation and, of course, the requirements of the particular user.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the popular website hosting solution?

Of course, the essential difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they contain. Free website hosting suppliers are not capable of keeping an enormous number of web servers, therefore, they simply accommodate more clients on one server by decreasing the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the web servers are monitored and dealt with properly, since the enormous amount of accounts may make the hosting server crash regularly. The majority of the free web hosting firms, though, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very hard to come across a free of cost hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting vendors typically provide free technical support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their web sites to expand so that they eventually move to a paid website hosting account, which includes more website hosting features. One such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free website hosting suppliers worldwide.

At the same time, established website hosting suppliers like us, may afford to maintain multiple servers and so, we may afford to provide much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a hosting solution, however, does not necessarily signify that this solution has a finer quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the concrete service which you're receiving. What's more, we also give a free extra with the hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of charge-free web site templates. As a website hosting provider, we do care about our reputation and that is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest calm that you won't get fooled into paying for a plan that you cannot in fact use.

What should I expect from a website hosting service?

The website hosting service is best for people who want to host a standard website, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a website hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business grows, your site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting service such as a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (a.k.a. a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting distributor, you should also ponder about scalability, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate company, which can bring about site troubles and even continued downtime for your web portal. If you go with Tellus Hosting as your website hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is vital and will save you a lot of difficulties in the future.