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Shared Hosting Description

The most archetypal and universally utilized sort of web hosting is the web hosting solution. It represents a way to host your web portal without having to know much about programming and managing a hosting server. Moreover, it's also the most economical type of web hosting and it's very affordable for everybody. However, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

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As the name indicates, the web hosting solution is a type of service where lots of clients share the resources of one and the same web hosting server. This denotes that all web hosting server elements such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are split among the customers whose accounts are on that very same hosting server. This is mostly made possible by setting up separate accounts for the different users and applying specific limits and quotas for each of them. Those limits are assigned so as to restrain the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, web hosting clients do not have root access to the web hosting server's config files, which essentially suggests that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server aside from their very own web hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may use are determined by the hosting company that possesses the web server and by the particular web hosting plan. That necessitates the second important question:

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

Hosting vendors that furnish web hosting plans usually have various website hosting packages. Those packages involve different amounts of website hosting resources and specs, which in fact fix the limits that a website hosting package will have. The client may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will suit him best. The hosting plan will then determine what limitations the customer's account will include, once set up. The costs and the features of the web hosting packages are chosen by the actual web hosting firm. Depending on the politics of the distributor, the web hosting service falls into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the common shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they actually depend on the business tactics of the particular distributor and, of course, the demands of the particular user.

What is the difference between the free and the classic web hosting service?

Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they involve. Free web hosting distributors are not able to keep a big amount of hosting servers, hence, they merely host more clients on one hosting server by lowering the amount of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the web servers are kept under surveillance and dealt with properly, because the huge number of accounts may make the hosting server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free web hosting vendors, however, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to discover a free of cost web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting vendors commonly offer free customer support even to the free web hosting customers, since they want their web sites to grow bigger so that they eventually move to a paid hosting package, which offers more website hosting resources. One such distributor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and oldest free website hosting distributors worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional web hosting firms like us, may afford to maintain multiple hosting servers and so, we are able to offer much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the pricing of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a website hosting account, however, does not necessarily signify that this service has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're obtaining. Additionally, we also give a free extra with the hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of fee-free templates. As a web hosting provider, we do care about our good name and that is the reason why if you select us, you can be confident that you won't get duped into buying a solution that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting service?

The web hosting service is best for individuals who want to host a normal site, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business gets bigger, your website will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting service such as a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (aka a virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when picking a website hosting distributor, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different distributor, which can create website predicaments and even prolonged downtime for your web portal. If you choose Ace Hosts as your web hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will spare you lots of troubles in the future.