How Shared Hosting Works

The most principal and commonly utilized variety of web hosting is the hosting service. It's a way to host your web portal without having to be much informed about programming and administering a web server. Additionally, it's also the most inexpensive form of web hosting and it's quite affordable for everybody. Still, what is hosting?

What is hosting?

As the name denotes, the hosting service is a sort of service where lots of clients share the system resources of one and the same hosting server. This suggests that all server elements such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs etc. are divided among the users whose accounts are on that same hosting server. This is mostly made possible by opening different accounts for the different users and allocating given restrictions and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are allocated in order to restrain the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web hosting server from overloading. Typically, hosting users do not have root access to the web server's configuration files, which basically denotes that they do not have access to anything else on the web server aside from their very own web hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may use are determined by the hosting supplier that owns the web hosting server and by the given web hosting package. That causes the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers split among the customers?

Hosting companies that offer hosting plans typically have various website hosting packages. Those plans involve diverse amounts of web hosting resources and specs, which actually determine the limits that a website hosting package will have. The user may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will fit him best. The web hosting package will then define what restrictions the user's account will include, once created. The prices and the features of the web hosting plans are set by the specific hosting vendor. Depending on the politics of the vendor, the hosting solution can be divided into 2 groups - the free hosting solution and the classic shared service, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" traders as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to tell, which one is better, since they are very different from each other and they indeed are dependent on the marketing policy of the given supplier and, of course, the requirements of the given user.

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

Of course, the essential difference between the free of charge and the paid service is in the amount of resources that they provide. Free hosting corporations are not capable of maintaining a big number of servers, therefore, they merely host more customers on one server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the hosting servers are supervised and administered appropriately, because the huge number of accounts may make the web server crash frequently. The majority of the free website hosting firms, however, overlook the quality of the service and as a result, it's very tough to come across a free of cost web hosting solution that's actually worth the time. The top free hosting providers usually offer free technical support even to the free web hosting customers, because they want their web sites to grow so that they eventually upgrade to a paid hosting account, which offers more hosting features. One such provider, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the biggest and eldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.

At the same time, traditional hosting distributors like us, may afford to maintain lots of web servers and therefore, we may afford to provide much more feature-rich website hosting plans. Of course, that influences the cost of the web hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web hosting service, though, does not automatically signify that this service has a finer quality. The most optimal solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a fee that corresponds to the actual service which you're receiving. Besides, we also give a free extra with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of free-of-charge web site layouts. As a website hosting distributor, we do worry about our reputation and that is the reason why if you select us, you can be confident that you won't get deceived into buying a plan that you cannot in fact make use of.

What should I anticipate from a hosting service?

The hosting service is best for those who want to host an average web portal, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business gets bigger, your website will become more and more demanding. So, you will have to ultimately migrate to a more powerful hosting solution like a semi-dedicated servers, a VPS (a.k.a. a virtual private web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a website hosting company, you should also ponder about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different provider, which can bring about web site predicaments and even continued downtime for your website. If you choose Lime Server as your web hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the needed domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is crucial and will save you lots of frustrations in the long run.