Shared Website Hosting Description

The most archetypal and universally utilized sort of web hosting is the web hosting service. It's a way to host your web site without having to understand much about programming and running a server. Additionally, it's also the most inexpensive type of hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Still, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name denotes, the web hosting solution is a kind of service where lots of customers share the system resources of the same hosting server. This denotes that all web server constituents such as CPU, hard disk drives, RAM, network interface cards etc. are split among the clients whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is normally rendered attainable by opening separate accounts for the different users and setting certain restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those restrictions are set in order to hinder the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the server from overburdening. Typically, web hosting users do not have complete root access to the web hosting server's config files, which primarily suggests that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server aside from their own web hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may resort to are set by the web hosting company that owns the web hosting server and by the given hosting plan. That causes the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Web hosting corporations that offer web hosting accounts typically have diverse website hosting packages. Those packages offer diverse quotas of web hosting resources and specifications, which actually determine the restrictions that a hosting account will have. The customer may select between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The website hosting package will then determine what limits the customer's account will have, once created. The prices and the specifications of the web hosting plans are defined by the particular hosting company. Depending on the politics of the corporation, the web hosting service can be divided into 2 types - the free hosting solution and the classic shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to affirm, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed depend on the marketing tactics of the given corporation and, of course, the needs of the particular client.

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

Of course, the essential difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the quantity of features that they include. Free website hosting providers are not capable of maintaining a large amount of web servers, hence, they merely host more clients on one single web server by decreasing the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the hosting servers are kept under surveillance and handled properly, because the big amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash again and again. The majority of the free website hosting providers, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite hard to discover a free of charge hosting solution that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting distributors typically offer free technical support even to the free website hosting clients, because they want their web sites to enlarge so that they subsequently migrate to a paid website hosting account, which includes more web hosting features. One such vendor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and eldest free web hosting distributors worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional web hosting corporations such as us, may afford to keep plenty of web servers and as a result, we may afford to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting package, though, does not automatically mean that this account has a better quality. The best services are the balanced ones, which involve a price that corresponds to the concrete service which you're obtaining. What's more, we also provide a free extra with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of gratis design templates. As a web hosting vendor, we do look after our good name and this is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest assured that you won't get fooled into purchasing an account that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I expect from a web hosting service?

The web hosting service is best for people who want to host an average site, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of bandwidth each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a web hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business grows bigger, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting solution like a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (a.k.a. a virtual web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. So, when picking a web hosting company, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up relocating your domain manually to a different vendor, which can cause site troubles and even continued downtime for your web portal. If you choose BitLife Host as your website hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is crucial and will save you a lot of complications in the long run.