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What Does Shared Website Hosting Stand for?

The most standard and regularly used kind of web hosting is the hosting solution. It represents a way to host your web portal without having to be much informed about programming and running a server. Besides, it's also the most inexpensive form of website hosting and it's in fact affordable for anybody. Nonetheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name designates, the hosting service is a kind of service where multiple customers share the system reserves of the same hosting server. This denotes that all hosting server constituents like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are divided among the customers whose accounts are on that same web server. This is typically rendered achievable by creating separate accounts for the different customers and applying specific limits and quotas for each of them. Those limits are allocated in order to prevent the users from meddling with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overburdening. Typically, hosting customers do not have root access to the server's configuration files, which basically means that they do not have access to anything else on the web hosting server aside from their own personal hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may utilize are fixed by the web hosting company that possesses the web server and by the particular website hosting package. That entails the second vital question:

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

Hosting firms that supply hosting solutions typically have different website hosting plans. Those packages include diverse quotas of website hosting features and specifications, which in fact set the limits that a website hosting plan will include. The user may pick between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The hosting plan will then define what limitations the user's account will involve, once created. The prices and the specs of the web hosting packages are determined by the specific web hosting firm. Based on the policy of the corporation, the hosting service can be divided into two groups - the free hosting service and the normal shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" suppliers as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to judge, which one is better, since they are quite different from one another and they actually depend on the business strategy of the specific supplier and, of course, the requirements of the particular customer.

What is the difference between the free and the classic hosting solution?

Of course, the essential difference between the free of cost and the paid service is in the quantity of resources that they contain. Free web hosting distributors are not able to keep a great amount of web servers, therefore, they plainly accommodate more customers on one web server by decreasing the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only if the servers are supervised and dealt with properly, since the enormous amount of accounts may make the hosting server crash on a regular basis. The majority of the free website hosting providers, however, ignore the quality of the service and as a result, it's quite hard to stumble upon a free of cost web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting vendors typically provide free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their web portals to expand so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting package, which offers more website hosting resources. One such firm, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the biggest and oldest free hosting companies worldwide.

At the same time, traditional hosting corporations like us, are able to keep many web hosting servers and hence, we are able to provide much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that affects the cost of the website hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a website hosting account, however, does not necessarily imply that this solution has a better quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the concrete service which you're receiving. What's more, we also provide a free extra with the web hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of fee-free web design templates. As a website hosting vendor, we do worry about our good name and that's why if you select us, you can rest calm that you won't get beguiled into buying a solution that you cannot actually use.

What should I anticipate from a hosting service?

The hosting service is best for people who wish to host an average website, which is going to generate a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business grows, your web page will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more powerful website hosting service such as a semi-dedicated packages, a VPS (a.k.a. a virtual private hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated package. So, when selecting a web hosting distributor, you should also consider scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different supplier, which can bring about website problems and even extended downtime for your web site. If you pick Beyond Real Hosting as your website hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can present you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will spare you lots of troubles in the future.