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A description of web site hosting

The most primary and widely used type of web hosting is the shared web hosting solution. It represents a means to host your site without having to be much informed about programming and handling a server. Besides, it's also the most inexpensive form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for everyone. Nonetheless, what is shared website hosting?

What is shared webspace hosting?

As the name suggests, the shared hosting service is a form of service where lots of users share the reserves of the same web hosting server. This suggests that all web server ingredients like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are distributed among the clients whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mostly made accomplishable by opening separate accounts for the separate users and setting certain limits and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are allocated so as to restrain the customers from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, shared web site hosting clients do not have complete root-level access to the server's configuration files, which basically suggests that they cannot access anything else on the server apart from their own personal shared web hosting account. The web page hosting features that each account may avail of are fixed by the web hosting firm that owns the server and by the particular hosting plan. That results in the second vital question:

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

Web hosting corporations that provide shared web space hosting accounts typically have different website hosting plans. Those packages involve diverse quotas of site hosting features and specifications, which actually fix the limits that a webspace hosting plan will include. The client may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will suit him best. The web site hosting package will then define what limits the customer's account will include, once created. The prices and the specs of the website hosting plans are fixed by the actual web hosting provider. Depending on the policy of the company, the shared site hosting service falls into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the normal shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to affirm, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they actually depend on the marketing strategy of the specific vendor and, of course, the needs of the given customer.

What is the difference between the free and the typical shared webspace hosting service?

Of course, the main difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they involve. Free webspace hosting distributors are not capable of keeping a large amount of servers, hence, they merely host more users on one server by decreasing the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the hosting servers are kept under surveillance and tackled appropriately, since the big amount of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash again and again. Most of the free hosting vendors, however, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite hard to come across a free web space hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting corporations commonly offer free technical support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their web pages to grow bigger so that they eventually migrate to a paid web site hosting plan, which offers more site hosting features. Such distributor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and eldest free web space hosting corporations in the world.

On the other hand, established shared web hosting corporations such as Yellowknife Hosting, for example, may afford to keep a lot of web hosting servers and as a result, they may afford to offer much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the web site hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a hosting account, though, does not necessarily signify that this plan has a better quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the actual service which you're getting. The best web space hosting firms that have been around for quite some time are presenting their prices and package features in a realistic manner, so that the customer may be aware of what in fact he is obtaining. Additionally, some of them provide a free bonus with the hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of free-of-cost web site templates that are supplied by 'Yellowknife Hosting'. Such site hosting providers do worry about their good name and that's why if you choose them, you can rest assured that you won't get fooled into paying for a package that you cannot in fact avail of.

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

The shared hosting service is best for individuals who desire to host a normal web site, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared webspace hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business expands, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more powerful site hosting solution like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (a.k.a. a private virtual hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when selecting a website hosting supplier, you should also reflect about how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain name manually to a separate provider, which can cause web site predicaments and even prolonged downtime for your site. So, going with a web space hosting supplier such as 'Yellowknife Hosting', which can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will spare you a lot of problems in the future.