What is Shared Web Hosting?

The most basic and commonly availed of variety of web hosting is the hosting solution. It represents a way to host your website without having to understand much about programming and managing a web hosting server. Additionally, it's also the most inexpensive form of web hosting and it's very affordable for everyone. However, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name implies, the hosting service is a type of service where many clients share the resources of one and the same web server. This means that all hosting server constituents like CPU, hard drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are shared among the users whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is typically rendered accomplishable by creating separate accounts for the separate users and fixing certain limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are set in order to prevent the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the hosting server from overburdening. Usually, hosting clients do not have full root access to the server's configuration files, which basically means that they cannot access anything else on the server beside their very own web hosting account. The website hosting features that each account may utilize are determined by the web hosting firm that possesses the hosting server and by the respective website hosting plan. That paves the way for the second essential question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Web hosting firms that supply hosting packages usually have different web hosting plans. Those plans involve diverse quotas of web hosting features and specs, which actually determine the limits that a web hosting package will have. The user may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will fit him best. The web hosting package will then define what limits the user's account will include, once set up. The prices and the features of the web hosting plans are chosen by the actual hosting company. Based on the politics of the provider, the hosting service falls into two categories - the free hosting solution and the classic shared solution, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to announce, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from one another and they really are subject to the marketing tactics of the given distributor and, of course, the requirements of the given client.

What is the contrast between the free of cost and the standard hosting solution?

Of course, the primary difference between the free and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they offer. Free web hosting suppliers are not capable of keeping an immense amount of web servers, therefore, they plainly accommodate more customers on a single web server by reducing the amount of resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the web hosting servers are monitored and tackled properly, since the enormous amount of accounts may make the hosting server crash over and over again. Most of the free web hosting distributors, though, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite hard to come across a free web hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting providers usually offer free client support even to the free web hosting clients, because they want their web portals to get bigger so that they subsequently migrate to a paid website hosting plan, which offers more web hosting resources. One such provider, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free website hosting suppliers worldwide.

At the same time, traditional hosting companies like us, may afford to maintain plenty of hosting servers and as a result, we are able to offer much more feature-rich web hosting plans. Of course, that influences the pricing of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a website hosting package, however, does not necessarily mean that this package has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the real service which you're receiving. Besides, we also offer a free extra with the web hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of charge-free web page skins. As a website hosting supplier, we do care about our reputation and that's why if you choose us, you can be certain that you won't get deceived into paying for a plan that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I expect from a hosting service?

The hosting solution is best for people who are looking to host an average website, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot expect, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business grows bigger, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more powerful web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated packages, a VPS (aka a private virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. Therefore, when choosing a website hosting provider, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate supplier, which can create website complications and even extended downtime for your site. If you choose Fiddyhost as your website hosting vendor, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is vital and will spare you a lot of difficulties in the long run.