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An explanation of web page hosting

The most principal and widely used sort 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 running a hosting server. Moreover, it's also the most inexpensive form of web site hosting and it's in fact affordable for anybody. However, what is shared website hosting?

What is shared web page hosting?

As the name denotes, the shared web space hosting solution is a sort of service where a lot of users share the system resources of the same web server. This suggests that all web server components like CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are allocated among the users whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly made attainable by setting up different accounts for the different users and fixing specific limits and quotas for each of them. Those limits are assigned in order to hinder the clients from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overloading. Normally, shared site hosting clients do not have full root access to the server's config files, which essentially implies that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server beside their very own shared web hosting account. The web page hosting features that each account may avail of are fixed by the hosting firm that possesses the web server and by the given web hosting package. That brings on the second essential question:

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

Hosting corporations that provide shared website hosting plans typically have diverse website hosting packages. Those packages contain different amounts of site hosting features and specs, which actually define the limitations that a web space hosting plan will have. The user may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will fit him best. The web space hosting package will then determine what limits the customer's account will include, once created. The costs and the features of the hosting plans are set by the particular web hosting firm. Depending on the politics of the supplier, the shared website hosting solution can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the normal shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" retailers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are very different from each other and they indeed are dependent on the marketing strategy of the given supplier and, of course, the requirements of the specific user.

What is the contrast between the free of charge and the regular shared web page hosting solution?

Of course, the principal difference between the free of charge and the paid solution is in the amount of features that they include. Free site hosting firms are not capable of maintaining a big amount of servers, therefore, they plainly accommodate more customers on a single web server by lowering the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the web servers are monitored and tackled appropriately, since the great number of accounts may make the web hosting server crash again and again. Most of the free web site hosting suppliers, though, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to discover a free hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting distributors normally provide free technical support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their web sites to grow bigger so that they eventually upgrade to a paid hosting package, which includes more site hosting features. One such provider, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free webspace hosting suppliers worldwide.

On the other hand, established shared web hosting suppliers such as Uni-Bz, for instance, are able to maintain lots of web hosting servers and therefore, they are able to offer much more feature-rich web hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the site hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a site hosting solution, however, does not necessarily mean that this package has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the real service which you're getting. The top webspace hosting providers that have been around for a long time are listing their price tags and plan specs in an objective manner, so that the customer may acquainted with what exactly he is getting. Also, some of these provide a free extra with the web site hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of fee-free web site layouts that are provided by 'Uni-Bz'. Such site hosting corporations do worry about their good name and that's why if you go with them, you can rest assured that you won't get tricked into buying a solution that you cannot actually avail of.

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

The shared webspace hosting solution is best for persons who would like to host an average website, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared website hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your site will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to ultimately upgrade to a more feature-rich hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. Therefore, when picking a web hosting distributor, you should also consider how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a separate distributor, which can create site troubles and even continued downtime for your web page. Hence, picking a website hosting company such as 'Uni-Bz', which can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is vital and will save you a lot of complications in the long run.