What Indeed is Shared Hosting

If you want to launch a web site and render it visible to the whole world, it needs to be hosted on a web hosting server. This service is called is shared hosting.

Host your website at home or in another place

You could host your web site on your own personal PC at your house or at your workplace, on a personal computer which belongs to an acquaintance of yours, etc. If it is a web site for experimenting purposes, there would be no real reason for you to discover a more reliable website hosting service than that. If you want to build an actual web site, however, which will be accessible to a lot of visitors and you want to make it reliable, you will also need a stable hosting server where you will host it.

Why do you require a server for your website?

When you have a website, it is located on a physical machine. That physical machine has its own physical address called Internet Protocol address. Typing the IP of the machine in your web browser's address bar, though, is not the best and simplest method to access a web site. That is how and why domain names appeared and why you are in need of one for your site. So, to create your site, you need your own personal domain name and a hosting server to host your website on.

Hosting your site yourself

If you are an Information Technology expert and know how to manage a server, you can have a web hosting server of your own and host your site on it. This will enable you to exert complete authority over the physical server, to implement server configuration modifications and to install software updates yourself rather than having to rely on the data center personnel. The weakness, however, is that you will need to ensure the visibility of your website and to take care of all server maintenance tasks yourself. If you are utilizing a licensed Operating System, you will also need to spend money on the license, which is normally more costly if bought for an entire server.

Using a web hosting packages provider

If you don't want to take care of server maintenance procedures, the most relevant step to take is to register an account with a web hosting supplier. These are firms that offer clients powerful servers with different hardware configurations in exchange for a certain tax. The web servers are physically located in data center facilities with special cooling and emergency power supply systems to ensure continuous Internet connectivity.

Varieties of web hosting services

The Internet is a boundless sea and there are many web hosting vendors delivering various hosting services to the multitude of website owners out there. The web hosting services range from cost-free hosting services, where you can host plain, HTML-based web pages, to expensive dedicated web hosting services that can suck your resources dry. So, what web hosting type meets your demands?

If you run a small or medium-sized site that has several hundred viewers tops, you could safely use a shared hosting solution. Shared hosting signifies that many clients and sites are accommodated on the same web hosting server, thus reducing the price of the hosting service. Shared accounts usually involve central processing unit, memory, web traffic and web hosting server hard drive storage space usage quotas to guarantee that the web sites accommodated on the server do not interfere with each other and do not utilize more resources than they are apportioned.

If your site is more resource-devouring, you should select a VPS hosting solution, which is the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated servers hosting solution. VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server. It offers full root-level access, which enables you to make server configuration modifications - something that would be impossible on a shared hosting web server. The virtual private servers also offer burstable memory options. Separate RAM and central processing unit shares are allocated to each single private virtual server, without anyone else using them. Usually there are other virtual private servers apart from your own that make use of the resources of the physical machine, which could occasionally influence the overall performance, but in the majority of cases it is not a problem. Should the resources of the VPS web hosting server, however, be insufficient for your needs, it is clearly time to shift to a dedicated web hosting server.

The dedicated servers is a server that you rent, which is utilized solely by you for your very own personal website needs. Nobody else uses its system resources and you gain complete server root access, can select the hardware in advance, add updates later on and install RAM or hard disks. Unlike with the virtual private servers where virtualization is mostly at the Operating System level and all containers share a single kernel, with a dedicated web server you can revise the kernel of the OS (typically Linux-based) too.

Select your hosting services provider

If you have a vision of what your website is going to comprise, or if you have only a vague idea that has not completely matured yet, your very first move towards the creation of your site should be to choose a hosting distributor. The best step to take is to discover a web hosting distributor that distributes a broad variety of website hosting solutions so that you do not have to change web hosting service providers if you first avail of a shared website hosting solution and then outgrow the shared web hosting resources and need to move to a VPS web server or a dedicated web hosting server solution. We, for example, offer modestly priced shared web hosting plans, affordably priced OpenVZ and Virtuozzo-based Virtual Private Servers, semi-dedicated hosting servers with their own web hosting Control Panel and even dedicated server web hosting plans. We also offer charge-free gifts - the shared website hosting low-cost domain if they are paid for on a yearly basis, the more powerful VPS web server plans and dedicated hosting web server packages include a free-of-charge domain name reseller account and invoicing software in case you wish to utilize them for reselling purposes. Throw in the topflight round-the-clock client support service and you have all you would usually need. You could, of course, discover other web hosting corporations depending on what precisely you are looking for, by conducting an online search or by examining additional web hosting reviews online. The most appropriate option, however, is a web host that is also a domain name registrar and has web hosting servers in more than one country - both preconditions satisfied by us. We have hosting servers in the US, in the UK and in Australia, and offer plenty of domain name extensions for registration.