A description of web hosting
The most archetypal and regularly availed of variety of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It's a means to host your site without having to be much informed about programming and running a hosting server. Moreover, it's also the cheapest form of web hosting and it's quite affordable for everyone. However, what is shared webspace hosting?
What is shared web page hosting?
As the name indicates, the shared web page hosting solution is a type of service where lots of users share the system reserves of the same web hosting server. This signifies that all web hosting server constituents such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards etc. are allotted among the customers whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mainly made tenable by creating different accounts for the different customers and applying certain restrictions and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are allocated in order to prevent the users from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overburdening. Typically, shared web space hosting clients do not have complete root access to the web hosting server's configuration files, which essentially goes to say that they cannot access anything else on the server but their own personal hosting account. The web site hosting resources that each account may use are set by the hosting firm that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting plan. That paves the way for the second important question:
How are the shared hosting web servers divided among the users?
Hosting providers that furnish shared hosting accounts commonly have diverse web site hosting plans. Those plans include different amounts of web site hosting features and specifications, which in fact set the limitations that a webspace hosting package will have. The user may choose between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will fit him best. The site hosting package will then determine what limitations the customer's account will involve, once opened. The costs and the features of the webspace hosting plans are chosen by the very web hosting company. Based on the policy of the distributor, the shared site hosting solution can be divided into two groups - the free hosting solution and the regular shared solution, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to claim, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they actually are dependent on the business tactics of the specific company and, of course, the requirements of the given customer.
What is the distinction between the free of cost and the common shared site hosting solution?
Of course, the essential difference between the free and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they offer. Free web hosting corporations are not able to maintain an immense amount of servers, hence, they plainly host more users on a single web server by decreasing the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the servers are kept under surveillance and maintained appropriately, since the big number of accounts may make the hosting server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free website hosting suppliers, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite tough to come across a free web space hosting solution that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting suppliers commonly provide free customer support even to the free web site hosting customers, because they want their web sites to enlarge so that they eventually upgrade to a paid website hosting package, which offers more web hosting features. Such supplier, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free site hosting vendors in the world.
At the same time, established shared web hosting firms such as NTC Hosting, for instance, may afford to keep lots of web servers and hence, they may afford to offer much more feature-rich web site hosting plans. Of course, that affects the cost of the site hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting account, though, does not automatically mean that this plan 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. The top-notch web hosting companies that have been around for a long time are showing their prices and package specs in a realistic way, so that the client may know what in fact he is receiving. Moreover, some of these offer a free bonus with the webspace hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free-of-charge web site layouts that are supplied by 'NTC Hosting'. Such site hosting providers do look after their good name and that is the reason why if you go with them, you can rest calm that you won't get swindled into purchasing a package that you cannot in fact avail of.
What should I anticipate from a shared web space hosting solution?
The shared web space hosting service is best for persons who wish to host a standard web portal, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared webspace hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business gets bigger, your site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful website hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (a.k.a. a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a hosting distributor, you should also reflect about how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up moving your domain name manually to a different company, which can cause site problems and even prolonged downtime for your web portal. Therefore, choosing a hosting vendor like 'NTC Hosting', which can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will save you lots of difficulties in the future.