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An explanation of hosting

The most standard and commonly used variety of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It constitutes a means to host your web site without having to know much about programming and running a web server. In addition, it's also the cheapest type of webspace hosting and it's very affordable for anybody. Nonetheless, what is shared site hosting?

What is shared site hosting?

As the name denotes, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where lots of users share the system resources of one and the same server. This suggests that all hosting server constituents such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are divided among the customers whose accounts are on that same server. This is normally rendered feasible by creating different accounts for the separate clients and setting specific limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limitations are imposed in order to restrain the customers from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Usually, shared web space hosting clients do not have root access to the hosting server's configuration files, which essentially denotes that they cannot access anything else on the server apart from their own web hosting account. The site hosting resources that each account may use are determined by the web hosting firm that owns the hosting server and by the respective webspace hosting package. That leads up to the second important question:

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

Hosting companies that furnish shared web site hosting packages commonly have different hosting plans. Those plans include different quotas of web hosting features and specs, which in fact define the restrictions that a website hosting plan will include. The client may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will fit him best. The web hosting package will then determine what limitations the customer's account will include, once created. The costs and the specifications of the web space hosting plans are defined by the specific web hosting vendor. Based on the politics of the corporation, the shared web page hosting service can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting service and the typical shared solution, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to allege, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they actually are dependent on the marketing tactics of the particular provider and, of course, the requirements of the specific customer.

What is the distinction between the free of cost and the popular shared webspace hosting solution?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they contain. Free website hosting distributors are not capable of keeping a great amount of hosting servers, hence, they simply accommodate more customers on one single server by reducing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web servers are supervised and administered properly, because the large amount of accounts may make the hosting server crash on a regular basis. Most of the free website hosting distributors, though, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very hard to stumble upon a free of charge web hosting service that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting distributors usually offer free client support even to the free hosting users, because they want their websites to grow bigger so that they eventually move to a paid web hosting package, which includes more web space hosting features. Such provider, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and oldest free site hosting suppliers worldwide.

At the same time, established shared web hosting providers like Lonex, for example, are able to maintain many web hosting servers and therefore, they are able to offer much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that influences the pricing of the hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a webspace hosting package, though, does not automatically denote that this plan has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the real service which you're obtaining. The top website hosting companies that have been around for quite some time are listing their price tags and plan configurations in a realistic fashion, so that the client may know what exactly he is receiving. What's more, some of these offer a free bonus with the webspace hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free website templates that are furnished by 'Lonex'. Such webspace hosting suppliers do worry about their good name and that is the reason why if you go with them, you can rest assured that you won't get fooled into buying a package that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I anticipate from a shared web page hosting service?

The shared web page hosting solution is best for persons who want to host a normal website, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, because as your business develops, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately move to a more feature-rich web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a private virtual server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. Therefore, when selecting a web space hosting provider, you should also ponder about how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up transferring your domain name manually to a different supplier, which can bring about web site complications and even continued downtime for your web site. Therefore, choosing a site hosting distributor like 'Lonex', which can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will save you a lot of annoyances in the future.