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Shared Web Hosting Explanation

The most primary and universally utilized kind of web hosting is the shared hosting service. It's a way to host your site without having to know much about programming and administrating a web hosting server. In addition, it's also the most inexpensive type of website hosting and it's in fact affordable for everyone. Still, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

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As the name indicates, the shared hosting solution is a form of service where lots of users share the resources of one and the same web server. This suggests that all web hosting server components like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are distributed among the customers whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mainly made viable by creating separate accounts for the separate users and assigning specific limits and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are allocated in order to restrain the clients from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the server from overloading. Usually, shared hosting clients do not have root-level access to the hosting server's configuration files, which basically suggests that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server beside their own web hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are determined by the web hosting distributor that owns the web server and by the particular website hosting plan. That predetermines the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the clients?

Hosting vendors that deliver shared hosting packages typically have various web hosting packages. Those packages involve different quotas of website hosting resources and specs, which actually determine the limitations that a web hosting account will have. The customer may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he believes will suit him best. The hosting package will then determine what limits the user's account will involve, once set up. The prices and the features of the hosting packages are defined by the specific web hosting distributor. Based on the politics of the distributor, the shared hosting solution falls into two groups - the free hosting service and the typical shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" vendors as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to affirm, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed are dependent on the business strategy of the particular corporation and, of course, the needs of the specific user.

What is the contrast between the free of cost and the common shared hosting solution?

Of course, the major difference between the free and the paid service is in the amount of features that they include. Free hosting firms are not able to maintain a large number of hosting servers, hence, they merely accommodate more customers on one single hosting server by reducing the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only if the web hosting servers are kept under surveillance and maintained appropriately, because the huge number of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash again and again. The majority of the free web hosting providers, however, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's very hard to find a free of charge web hosting service that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting suppliers normally offer free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their web portals to get bigger so that they subsequently upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which offers more website hosting features. Such supplier, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free web hosting firms in the world.

At the same time, established shared hosting suppliers such as us, are able to keep plenty of web hosting servers and hence, we are able to provide much more powerful website hosting packages. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting package, though, does not automatically mean that this solution has a finer quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that matches the actual service which you're obtaining. Moreover, we also offer a free extra with the hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of complimentary web design layouts. As a website hosting firm, we do look after our good name and this is the reason why if you go with us, you can rest calm that you won't get hoaxed into purchasing an account that you cannot in fact utilize.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting solution?

The shared hosting solution is best for people who would like to host a standard website, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of web traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to eventually move to a more feature-rich web hosting service like a semi-dedicated hosting, a VPS hosting (also known as a virtual server, or VPS), or even a dedicated hosting. Therefore, when choosing a website hosting distributor, you should also think about scalability, otherwise you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different provider, which can cause web site complications and even continued downtime for your website. If you choose CNSS Solutions AB as your website hosting company, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of headaches in the long run.