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What Precisely is Shared Hosting?

If you want to create a web site and render it visible to the whole world, it needs to be located on a web server. This service is known as is shared hosting.

Host your web site at home or in another place

You could host your website on your own PC at home or at work, on a PC which belongs to a comrade of yours, and so on. If it is a website for testing purposes, there would be no real reason for you to look for a more reliable hosting service than that. If you desire to build an actual website, however, which will be accessible to a lot of visitors and you desire to make it dependable, you will also need a dependable hosting server where you will host it.

Why do you require a web server for your site?

When you have a web site, it is hosted on a physical machine. That physical machine has its own physical address called IP address. Typing the IP of the machine in your web browser, though, is not the best and most convenient method to open a web site. That is how and why domain names came into being and why you need one for your site. So, to create your site, you need your own personal domain name and a server to host your website on.

Hosting your web site on your own

If you are an IT professional and understand how to cope with a hosting server, you can have a hosting server of your very own and host your site on it. This will permit you to have full authority over the server, to implement server configuration modifications and to install software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the datacenter personnel. The weakness, though, is that you will have to ensure the accessibility of your site and to deal with all server maintenance procedures yourself. If you are making use of a licensed OS, you will also need to pay for the license, which is normally more expensive if purchased for an entire machine.

Using a hosting services provider

If you don't want to perform server maintenance procedures, the best thing to do is open an account with a web hosting solutions provider. These are companies that offer customers powerful web servers with various hardware configurations in exchange for a given tax. The web hosting servers are held in data centers with special cooling and backup power supply systems to ensure constant service uptime.

Varieties of hosting services

1 Website
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
1 website hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$5.70 / month
5 Websites
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$8.00 / month
 

The Internet is a boundless ocean and there are lots of corporations offering different hosting services to the plethora of website owners out there. The web hosting services range from free-of-cost hosting services, where you can host plain, HTML-based sites, to costly dedicated server web hosting services that can drain your resources. So, what hosting type fits your requirements?

If you have a small or medium-sized web site that has a few hundred guests tops, you could safely resort to a shared web hosting solution. Shared hosting signifies that numerous hosting clients and websites are accommodated on one and the very same web server, thus decreasing the price of the service. Shared hosting accounts ordinarily have CPU, RAM, traffic and web hosting server disk drive storage space usage quotas to guarantee that the web sites hosted on the web server do not intervene with each other and do not use more resources than they are allocated.

If your site is more frequently visited, you should pick a VPS hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated servers hosting solution. VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. It gives you full root-level access, which enables you to implement server configuration modifications - something that would be inconceivable on a shared hosting server. The virtual private servers also offer burstable memory options. Separate RAM memory and CPU shares are allocated to each single virtual web server, without anyone else using them. Typically there are other virtual private servers beside your own that avail of the system resources of the physical server, which could sometimes influence the overall performance, but in most instances it's of no concern. Should the system resources of the private virtual web hosting server, however, be insufficient for your needs, it is obviously time to shift to a dedicated server.

The dedicated servers is a physical machine that you rent, which is used exclusively by you for your own personal web site needs. Nobody else shares its resources and you are bestowed with full root-level access, can choose a hardware architecture in advance, apply upgrades later on and add RAM or hard drives. Unlike with the virtual private servers where virtualization is mainly at the OS level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated web server you can modify the kernel of the Operating System (usually Linux-based) as well.

Find your web host

If you have a notion of what your web site is going to be composed of, or if you have only a vague idea that has not fully matured yet, your very first step towards the creation of your web site should be to choose a hosting solutions provider. The most reasonable step to take is to find a hosting services provider that distributes an extensive selection of website hosting solutions so that you do not need to swap providers in case you first use a shared website hosting solution and then outgrow the shared hosting resources and have to migrate to a virtual server solution or a dedicated hosting solution. We, for example, deliver low-priced shared website hosting packages, modestly priced OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based private virtual hosting servers, semi-dedicated hosting servers with their own web hosting Control Panel and even dedicated hosting server plans. We also offer free extras - the shared website hosting cheap domain if they are paid for on a yearly basis, the more advanced virtual web server packages and dedicated servers include a free-of-charge domain reseller account and billing software should you wish to utilize them for reselling purposes. Throw in the great 24x7x365 customer support service and you have all you would normally need. You could, certainly, discover other hosting distributors depending on what precisely you are searching for, by conducting an online survey or by reading different online hosting reviews. The most suitable choice, though, is a hosting services provider that is also a domain name registrar and has web servers in more than one country - both requirements met by us. We have hosting servers in the United States of America, in Britain and in Australia, and offer plenty of domain name extensions for registration.