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What In Fact is Shared Website Hosting?

The most standard and regularly availed of type of web hosting is the hosting service. It constitutes a way to host your site without having to know much about programming and operating a server. Additionally, it's also the cheapest type of hosting and it's indeed affordable for everybody. Still, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

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As the name suggests, the hosting service is a kind of service where plenty of customers share the system reserves of the same web hosting server. This signifies that all hosting server components such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are distributed among the customers whose accounts are on that same web hosting server. This is typically made attainable by creating separate accounts for the different customers and applying specific restrictions and quotas for each of them. Those limitations are set so as to restrain the users from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the hosting server from overloading. Usually, hosting clients do not have full root access to the server's configuration files, which essentially suggests that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server but their own personal hosting account. The website hosting resources that each account may resort to are set by the web hosting supplier that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting plan. That gives rise to the second vital question:

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

Hosting providers that deliver hosting solutions commonly have various website hosting plans. Those plans include different quotas of website hosting resources and specs, which actually determine the limits that a hosting plan will include. The user may select between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will suit him best. The website hosting plan will then determine what restrictions the customer's account will have, once created. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting packages are set by the particular web hosting company. Based on the politics of the company, the hosting solution can be divided into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the standard shared solution, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" corporations as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to assert, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they really are subject to the marketing tactics of the particular provider and, of course, the demands of the particular client.

What is the difference between the free of cost and the classic hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they include. Free website hosting distributors are not able to maintain an enormous amount of servers, therefore, they merely host more users on a single hosting server by reducing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only on condition that the servers are monitored and tackled appropriately, because the immense amount of accounts may cause the server to crash again and again. Most of the free web hosting suppliers, though, overlook the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to discover a free hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting distributors typically offer free technical support even to the free hosting customers, since they want their websites to expand so that they eventually migrate to a paid web hosting account, which includes more website hosting features. Such provider, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free hosting suppliers in the world.

At the same time, traditional hosting vendors like us, are able to maintain many web servers and therefore, we may afford to offer much more powerful web hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a hosting solution, though, does not necessarily mean that this account has a better quality. The most optimal services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the real service which you're obtaining. Also, we also offer a free bonus with the website hosting plan, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of cost-free design themes. As a website hosting distributor, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can be calm that you won't get swindled into purchasing a plan that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I expect from a hosting service?

The hosting service is best for those who wish to host a basic web page, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot expect, though, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business develops, your web page will become more and more demanding. Hence, you will have to eventually migrate to a more powerful hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (aka a virtual server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a website hosting vendor, you should also think about scalability, otherwise you might end up migrating your domain manually to a different provider, which can create website complications and even continuous downtime for your web site. If you pick Bohohosting as your web hosting distributor, you can rest safe that we can present you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will save you a lot of inconveniences in the future.