What is Shared Hosting?

The most fundamental and commonly utilized kind of web hosting is the hosting solution. It's a means to host your web page without having to understand much about programming and running a server. In addition to this, it's also the most economical form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for everyone. Nevertheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name denotes, the hosting solution is a form of service where plenty of users share the system resources of one and the same web server. This denotes that all web server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are divided among the customers whose accounts are on that same server. This is mostly made achievable by opening separate accounts for the different users and assigning certain limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are imposed so as to restrain the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Typically, hosting customers do not have root-level access to the web hosting server's config files, which primarily goes to say that they do not have access to anything else on the web server apart from their own hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may avail of are determined by the web hosting company that owns the web server and by the given website hosting plan. That brings about the second vital question:

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

Hosting vendors that furnish hosting solutions typically have different website hosting packages. Those packages provide different amounts of website hosting resources and specs, which actually fix the restrictions that a website hosting account will have. The user may pick between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The web hosting plan will then define what restrictions the client's account will involve, once created. The costs and the specs of the website hosting plans are fixed by the actual hosting firm. Based on the policy of the distributor, the hosting solution can be divided into two types - the free hosting solution and the classic shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed are subject to the marketing policy of the given provider and, of course, the demands of the particular client.

What is the distinction between the free and the standard hosting service?

Of course, the principal difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they provide. Free hosting companies are not able to keep a big amount of servers, therefore, they simply host more clients on one web server by lowering the quantity of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the servers are monitored and dealt with appropriately, since the great number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash time and time again. Most of the free web hosting vendors, however, ignore the quality of the service and therefore, it's very tough to come across a free website hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting distributors usually offer free client support even to the free website hosting customers, since they want their web portals to enlarge so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting plan, which includes more website hosting resources. Such vendor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free web hosting providers worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional hosting corporations such as us, are able to keep multiple web servers and hence, we may afford to provide much more powerful website hosting plans. Of course, that influences the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting account, however, does not necessarily imply that this package has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the concrete service which you're getting. Besides, we also give a free bonus with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free web page themes. As a web hosting vendor, we do care about our good name and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can be confident that you won't get deluded into buying a solution that you cannot actually use.

What should I anticipate from a hosting solution?

The hosting solution is best for those who desire to host a standard site, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot expect, though, that a hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business expands, your site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately move to a more powerful web hosting service such as a semi-dedicated packages, a VPS (a.k.a. a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. Therefore, when selecting a web hosting company, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up relocating your domain manually to a different distributor, which can bring about site troubles and even continuous downtime for your site. If you choose Bethnan Hosting as your web hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you lots of headaches in the long run.