Description of Shared Website Hosting

The most primary and frequently availed of sort of web hosting is the web hosting solution. It constitutes a means to host your web portal without having to know much about programming and managing a hosting server. Besides, it's also the most inexpensive form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for everybody. However, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name denotes, the web hosting solution is a type of service where plenty of clients share the resources of the same web server. This means that all web server components such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards and so on, are divided among the customers whose accounts are on that very same web hosting server. This is mostly made feasible by creating separate accounts for the different clients and applying certain limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limits are assigned so as to prevent the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Typically, web hosting customers do not have root access to the hosting server's config files, which basically means that they cannot access anything else on the web hosting server beside their very own hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may use are fixed by the web hosting distributor that owns the hosting server and by the respective web hosting package. That brings on the second vital question:

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

Web hosting companies that offer web hosting solutions typically have different website hosting packages. Those packages include diverse quotas of web hosting features and specs, which in fact set the limitations that a web hosting account will have. The user may pick between the different 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 user's account will have, once created. The prices and the specifications of the web hosting plans are fixed by the given hosting firm. Based on the policy of the distributor, the web hosting service can be divided into two types - the free hosting solution and the normal shared solution, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to announce, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they indeed are subject to the business tactics of the specific provider and, of course, the needs of the particular user.

What is the contrast between the free and the normal web hosting service?

Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid service is in the quantity of features that they offer. Free web hosting distributors are not capable of keeping a big amount of servers, hence, they simply host more clients on one single hosting server by reducing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are supervised and dealt with properly, because the large number of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash over and over again. The majority of the free web hosting vendors, though, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to find a free of charge website hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting firms normally offer free technical support even to the free website hosting users, because they want their websites to enlarge so that they subsequently move to a paid website hosting plan, which offers more hosting resources. One such provider, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free web hosting vendors worldwide.

On the other hand, traditional web hosting distributors such as us, may afford to maintain numerous web hosting servers and hence, we are able to offer much more powerful website hosting packages. Of course, that influences the pricing of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a website hosting service, though, does not automatically signify that this account has a better quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that matches the real service which you're receiving. Besides, we also provide a free bonus with the web hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with hundreds of free-of-cost web site skins. As a website hosting provider, we do care about our good name and that is the reason why if you pick us, you can rest confident that you won't get beguiled into paying for a solution that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I anticipate from a web hosting service?

The web hosting solution is best for people who desire to host a normal web page, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a web hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business enlarges, your web site will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful website hosting service like a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (a.k.a. a private virtual hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when picking a website hosting vendor, you should also consider scalability, otherwise you might end up moving your domain manually to a separate company, which can bring about website troubles and even prolonged downtime for your site. If you pick Quickserv Hosting as your website hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is essential and will save you lots of troubles in the long run.