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Shared Web Hosting Explanation

The most fundamental and universally utilized variety of web hosting is the hosting service. It represents a way to host your site without having to be much informed about programming and managing a web server. Furthermore, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's in fact affordable for everyone. Still, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

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As the name signifies, the hosting service is a type of service where many clients share the system resources of one and the same server. This means that all server components like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are distributed among the users whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is typically rendered tenable by creating separate accounts for the different clients and setting certain restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limitations are allocated so as to restrain the clients from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overburdening. Typically, hosting users do not have full root access to the web hosting server's configuration files, which essentially goes to say that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server but their very own website hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may utilize are set by the web hosting supplier that owns the web hosting server and by the respective web hosting plan. That gives rise to the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the users?

Web hosting corporations that deliver hosting packages typically have different web hosting plans. Those packages provide different quotas of web hosting resources and specifications, which in fact fix the limitations that a hosting account will include. The user may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The web hosting plan will then determine what limits the customer's account will have, once created. The costs and the specifications of the website hosting packages are defined by the particular web hosting corporation. Depending on the policy of the vendor, the hosting solution can be divided into two types - the free hosting solution and the standard shared solution, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to judge, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed are subject to the marketing policy of the given distributor and, of course, the demands of the specific user.

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

Of course, the main difference between the free of charge and the paid service is in the amount of features that they involve. Free web hosting providers are not able to keep a big number of web hosting servers, hence, they plainly host more clients on one single server by decreasing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the servers are kept under surveillance and dealt with properly, because the huge number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash on a regular basis. The majority of the free web hosting providers, however, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's very tough to find a free of cost website hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting companies commonly provide free technical support even to the free web hosting clients, because they want their websites to grow so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid hosting package, which includes more website hosting resources. One such supplier, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and eldest free hosting providers worldwide.

At the same time, traditional hosting distributors such as us, may afford to maintain many web servers and hence, we are able to offer much more powerful website hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a website hosting solution, however, does not necessarily imply that this plan has a finer quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the actual service which you're receiving. Furthermore, we also provide a free extra with the web hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of gratis website layouts. As a web hosting supplier, we do care about our good name and this is the reason why if you select us, you can be certain that you won't get duped into buying an account that you cannot in fact use.

What should I expect from a hosting service?

The hosting solution is best for individuals who desire to host a standard web portal, which is going to use a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business gets bigger, your web portal 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 packages, a VPS (aka a virtual hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. So, when selecting a web hosting provider, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up migrating your domain manually to a separate vendor, which can create web site complications and even prolonged downtime for your web site. If you select Mo Money' as your website hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is vital and will save you lots of inconveniences in the future.