Shared Website Hosting Unveiled

The most elemental and commonly availed of form of web hosting is the hosting solution. It represents a means to host your web page without having to understand much about programming and handling a hosting server. Moreover, it's also the most economical form of web hosting and it's quite affordable for anybody. Nonetheless, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name suggests, the hosting service is a form of service where many users share the system reserves of one and the same web hosting server. This indicates that all hosting server ingredients such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, network cards and so on, are allocated among the customers whose accounts are on that same server. This is normally made viable by opening different accounts for the separate users and imposing specific limits and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are appointed in order to hinder the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, hosting users do not have full root-level access to the web server's config files, which essentially means that they cannot access anything else on the hosting server beside their very own website hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may use are fixed by the hosting distributor that possesses the web hosting server and by the particular web hosting package. That entails the second essential question:

How are the shared hosting servers split among the customers?

Hosting corporations that supply hosting services normally have different website hosting plans. Those plans provide diverse amounts of web hosting features and specifications, which in fact fix the limits that a website hosting account will have. The user may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he deems will befit him best. The web hosting package will then define what restrictions the user's account will involve, once opened. The costs and the specifications of the web hosting packages are set by the particular web hosting supplier. Depending on the policy of the firm, the hosting solution can be divided into two categories - the free hosting solution and the popular shared service, currently very popular among "cPanel hosting" companies as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to declare, which one is better, since they are very different from one another and they indeed are dependent on the marketing tactics of the specific supplier and, of course, the needs of the specific user.

What is the distinction between the free of cost and the standard hosting solution?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they offer. Free website hosting corporations are not capable of maintaining an immense number of web servers, hence, they plainly accommodate more clients on a single hosting server by reducing the quantity of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the web hosting servers are supervised and dealt with appropriately, because the big amount of accounts may cause the web hosting server to crash time and time again. Most of the free website hosting firms, though, neglect the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to come across a free website hosting solution that's in fact worth the effort. The top free hosting companies usually provide free client support even to the free hosting customers, because they want their web sites to expand so that they eventually move to a paid web hosting account, which includes more web hosting resources. One such provider, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and eldest free website hosting companies in the world.

At the same time, traditional hosting suppliers like us, may afford to maintain numerous hosting servers and hence, we may afford to provide much more powerful hosting plans. Of course, that influences the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting package, however, does not necessarily imply that this service has a finer quality. The most advantageous solutions are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the concrete service which you're obtaining. Also, we also offer a free extra with the website hosting package, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by 100's of free skins. As a web hosting companie, we do worry about our good name and that is the reason why if you go with us, you can be assured that you won't get duped into purchasing a plan that you cannot actually avail of.

What should I expect from a hosting solution?

The hosting service is best for persons who would like to host an average web page, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of bandwidth every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, since as your business expands, your site will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more feature-rich website hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (also known as a virtual hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. So, when choosing a web hosting distributor, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up moving your domain manually to a separate supplier, which can cause site problems and even prolonged downtime for your website. If you choose Melanesia Web Hosting as your website hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will spare you lots of complications in the long run.