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Explanation of Shared Hosting

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The most fundamental and frequently utilized sort of web hosting is the hosting solution. It represents a way to host your website without having to know much about programming and managing a web server. In addition, it's also the cheapest form of website hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name signifies, the hosting solution is a kind of service where a lot of clients share the resources of one and the same hosting server. This signifies that all hosting server elements like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are divided among the customers whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mainly rendered feasible by creating different accounts for the different customers and fixing specific restrictions and quotas for each of them. Those limitations are assigned so as to prevent the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web server from overburdening. Usually, hosting clients do not have root access to the server's configuration files, which basically signifies that they cannot access anything else on the server apart from their own website page hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may resort to are fixed by the hosting provider that owns the hosting server and by the given web hosting plan. That gives rise to the second essential question:

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

Hosting distributors that supply hosting services usually have diverse website hosting plans. Those packages offer different quotas of website hosting features and specs, which in fact fix the limitations that a website hosting account will include. The customer may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will befit him best. The hosting plan will then determine what limitations the user's account will involve, once opened. The prices and the specifications of the website hosting packages are set by the particular hosting firm. Depending on the politics of the firm, the hosting service can be divided into two types - the free hosting solution and the standard shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to assert, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they indeed are dependent on the business tactics of the given supplier and, of course, the requirements of the given user.

What is the distinction between the free and the classic hosting solution?

Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they provide. Free web hosting companies are not able to maintain a large amount of hosting servers, hence, they merely host more clients on one web server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the servers are monitored and maintained properly, because the enormous number of accounts may cause the hosting server to crash on a regular basis. Most of the free website hosting providers, though, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite hard to stumble upon a free web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting companies typically offer free client support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their web portals to get bigger so that they subsequently move to a paid web hosting plan, which includes more website hosting features. Such firm, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free website hosting companies in the world.

On the other hand, traditional hosting firms like us, may afford to maintain lots of web servers and hence, we are able to offer much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a website hosting solution, though, does not automatically mean that this plan has a better quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the concrete service which you're receiving. Additionally, we also offer a free bonus with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of complimentary website skins. As a web hosting companie, we do look after our good name and this is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest calm that you won't get deluded into purchasing an account that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I expect from a hosting solution?

The hosting solution is best for those who would like to host a normal site, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more feature-rich web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (aka a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when picking a web hosting company, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate distributor, which can create website problems and even prolonged downtime for your web site. If you pick Sales Hub as your hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will save you lots of predicaments in the future.

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