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A definition of web hosting

The most principal and commonly utilized variety of web hosting is the shared web hosting solution. It represents a way to host your web site without having to understand much about programming and managing a server. In addition to that, it's also the most economical type of hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. However, what is shared site hosting?

What is shared web page hosting?

As the name implies, the shared site hosting service is a form of service where a lot of users share the system reserves of the same hosting server. This indicates that all hosting server ingredients such as CPU, hard drives, RAM, NICs etc. are allotted among the clients whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is normally made tenable by opening separate accounts for the different customers and assigning certain limitations and quotas for each of them. Those limits are imposed in order to restrain the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Normally, shared hosting customers do not have complete root-level access to the web server's configuration files, which principally means that they cannot access anything else on the web server beside their own personal website page hosting account. The web site hosting features that each account may utilize are fixed by the hosting distributor that owns the web server and by the given web hosting package. That leads up to the second important question:

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

Web hosting providers that provide shared web page hosting services normally have different web site hosting plans. Those plans provide different quotas of hosting features and specifications, which in fact define the limitations that a website hosting account will include. The customer may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will suit him best. The web site hosting plan will then determine what limitations the customer's account will have, once created. The costs and the specifications of the webspace hosting plans are set by the actual hosting company. Depending on the politics of the supplier, the shared website hosting solution falls into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the popular shared service, currently very famous among "cPanel hosting" merchants as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to claim, which one is better, since they are quite different from each other and they actually depend on the marketing policy of the given corporation and, of course, the needs of the given customer.

What is the contrast between the free and the popular shared hosting solution?

Of course, the chief difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the amount of resources that they provide. Free web site hosting suppliers are not able to keep a large number of servers, hence, they plainly host more users on one web hosting server by reducing the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the hosting servers are supervised and maintained properly, because the large amount of accounts may causer the web server to crash repeatedly. The majority of the free website hosting vendors, however, neglect the quality of the service and as a result, it's very difficult to stumble upon a free web hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting distributors commonly provide free technical support even to the free web site hosting customers, since they want their web pages to get bigger so that they subsequently move to a paid site hosting plan, which offers more hosting resources. One such distributor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and oldest free webspace hosting firms in the world.

At the same time, established shared web hosting corporations like QTLabs Inc., for example, are able to keep multiple web hosting servers and so, they are able to provide much more powerful web site hosting packages. Of course, that influences the cost of the webspace hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a web hosting plan, however, does not automatically imply that this plan has a better quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that corresponds to the actual service which you're getting. The best site hosting corporations that have been around for quite a while are listing their prices and package configurations in a realistic manner, so that the client may be informed of what indeed he is getting. Additionally, some of these provide a free extra with the website hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of gratis web design templates that are furnished by 'QTLabs Inc.'. Such site hosting providers do care about their good name and that's why if you select them, you can rest certain that you won't get fooled into buying a plan that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I expect from a shared site hosting solution?

The shared website hosting service is best for those who would like to host a standard web page, which is going to swallow a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot expect, though, that a shared website hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business gets bigger, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful web site hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (a.k.a. a private virtual web server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when selecting a hosting provider, you should also think about how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up transferring your domain name manually to a separate provider, which can bring about web site complications and even extended downtime for your web site. Hence, picking a webspace hosting distributor like 'QTLabs Inc.', which can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you get bigger, is vital and will spare you a lot of troubles in the future.