How Shared Web Hosting Works

The most fundamental and popularly utilized sort of web hosting is the hosting solution. It constitutes a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and running a web server. Additionally, it's also the most inexpensive type of website hosting and it's in fact affordable for everyone. Still, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name designates, the hosting service is a type of service where multiple users share the system reserves of one and the same web hosting server. This indicates that all server components such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network cards etc. are divided among the customers whose accounts are on that very same web server. This is usually rendered viable by creating separate accounts for the different customers and imposing some limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are imposed in order to restrain the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the server from overloading. Typically, hosting clients do not have complete root-level access to the web hosting server's config files, which primarily indicates that they cannot access anything else on the server beside their very own web hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may use are determined by the hosting distributor that possesses the web server and by the particular web hosting plan. That leads up to the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the customers?

Web hosting providers that furnish hosting accounts normally have different web hosting packages. Those plans include different quotas of website hosting resources and specifications, which in fact define the limitations that a website hosting account will include. The client may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will suit him best. The web hosting package will then determine what restrictions the client's account will include, once created. The prices and the features of the website hosting plans are chosen by the very web hosting corporation. Based on the politics of the distributor, the hosting service can be divided into two groups - the free hosting service and the standard shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to claim, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are determined by the business policy of the given vendor and, of course, the demands of the given client.

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

Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they contain. Free web hosting suppliers are not capable of maintaining a big amount of hosting servers, therefore, they merely host more clients on one single web hosting server by decreasing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the servers are supervised and administered appropriately, because the huge amount of accounts may causer the web server to crash over and over again. Most of the free web hosting corporations, though, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite difficult to come across a free of cost website hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting providers usually provide free technical support even to the free web hosting users, since they want their websites to get bigger so that they subsequently migrate to a paid web hosting plan, which includes more web hosting features. Such corporation, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and eldest free website hosting vendors in the world.

At the same time, traditional hosting companies like us, are able to maintain many hosting servers and hence, we may afford to provide much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting plan, though, does not automatically denote that this plan has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the real service which you're getting. Furthermore, we also offer a free extra with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of cost-free site layouts. As a website hosting distributor, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you go with us, you can be assured that you won't get beguiled into paying for a package that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I expect from a hosting service?

The hosting solution is best for people who would like to host a normal web portal, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business grows, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more powerful website hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (aka a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a website hosting supplier, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a separate vendor, which can bring about website predicaments and even continuous downtime for your web site. If you pick Golden Delta as your hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of troubles in the long run.