An explanation of hosting
The most basic and commonly availed of kind of web hosting is the shared web hosting solution. It's a means to host your web site without having to know much about programming and handling a web hosting server. In addition to that, it's also the most inexpensive type of web site hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Still, what is shared web site hosting?
What is shared web space hosting?
As the name designates, the shared web space hosting service is a form of service where a lot of users share the resources of one and the same web hosting server. This implies that all web server constituents like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, NICs etc. are allotted among the clients whose accounts are on that same web server. This is normally rendered viable by creating different accounts for the different customers and fixing some limits and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are allocated so as to prevent the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the hosting server from overloading. Usually, shared website hosting clients do not have root access to the hosting server's config files, which basically implies that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server but their own hosting account. The web space hosting features that each account may utilize are fixed by the hosting firm that possesses the web server and by the particular website hosting package. That results in the second vital question:
How are the shared web hosting servers divided among the customers?
Web hosting vendors that offer shared hosting packages typically have different webspace hosting plans. Those packages contain different quotas of web site hosting features and specs, which in fact define the limits that a web space hosting package will have. The customer may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The hosting plan will then determine what limits the client's account will include, once created. The costs and the features of the web space hosting plans are set by the particular hosting provider. Depending on the politics of the provider, the shared website hosting service falls into 2 categories - the free hosting service and the common shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to affirm, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they indeed depend on the marketing strategy of the given distributor and, of course, the needs of the particular client.
What is the contrast between the free and the classic shared webspace hosting solution?
Of course, the essential difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the amount of features that they include. Free web space hosting distributors are not capable of keeping an immense number of hosting servers, therefore, they merely accommodate more users on a single hosting server by lowering the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the web servers are monitored and maintained appropriately, because the immense amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash on a regular basis. The majority of the free web space hosting suppliers, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's very tough to find a free of charge web site hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting distributors commonly offer free customer support even to the free web space hosting customers, because they want their websites to expand so that they eventually migrate to a paid web site hosting package, which offers more web hosting features. One such corporation, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.
At the same time, traditional shared web hosting firms like NGS - SECURITYLOGIC, for instance, are able to maintain a lot of hosting servers and so, they are able to offer much more feature-rich web site hosting plans. Of course, that influences the cost of the webspace hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting plan, though, does not necessarily imply that this service has a better quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the real service which you're getting. The top-notch web space hosting vendors that have been around for quite some time are exhibiting their price tags and package specs in a realistic manner, so that the customer may be aware of what indeed he is obtaining. Moreover, some of them provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free design themes that are offered by 'NGS - SECURITYLOGIC'. Such site hosting distributors do look after their reputation and this is the reason why if you pick them, you can be confident that you won't get deluded into buying an account that you cannot actually make use of.
What should I anticipate from a shared hosting service?
The shared web hosting service is best for those who want to host an average web site, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot expect, however, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business develops, your website will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to eventually migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual private web server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when selecting a web site hosting distributor, you should also reflect about how they can be of service to you, otherwise you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a different provider, which can bring about site troubles and even continuous downtime for your website. Hence, going with a web site hosting vendor such as 'NGS - SECURITYLOGIC', which can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of complications in the long run.