What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

Shared hosting is a service that hosting firms offer so that you can put your site online.

How can people spot your web site?

When you set up a website and you would like other persons to access it, you will need to copy (or upload) it to a server. If you attempt to render the site accessible on the World Wide Web by shared hosting it on your own personal computer, there is no way for you to keep it online all the time, which is why web hosting services appeared.

How does shared hosting work?

Hosting vendors provide you with disk storage space for your site on their high-power computers (hosting servers) and guarantee uninterrupted network uptime. When somebody writes your website address (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the server where they can view the content of your website.

Types of hosting

With the growth of Internet technologies, several types of web hosting services have emerged to match the various needs of web site owners, including shared website hosting services, VPS server web hosting services and dedicated server web hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared website hosting is the most common type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where a single web hosting server is shared among plenty of web hosting account owners who are limited by the CPU, traffic and hosting storage space quotas that they have been allotted. This form of website hosting is typically less expensive - you don't have to buy the entire web server upfront, since it is shared between numerous customers, and the web hosting services provider can afford to offer much more affordable prices. It is also much easier to use - the hosting server is pre-installed with all the necessary software and the web hosting solutions provider handles all server maintenance procedures and software updates for you.

The downside of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's system resources with other shared hosting account owners and if a given website becomes very busy it may affect (and slow down) all the other sites on that web server, but most hosting distributors, including us at 3000Host, have protection platforms at work that obstruct that from taking place.

A description of a hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most commonly used form of web hosting, the majority of web hosting suppliers and web hosting users simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense rivalry on the website hosting marketplace, most hosting companies endeavor to offer low prices and gifts with their web hosting services. We, for example, offer different website hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and yearly, depending on your budget. If you select the annual billing cycle, you will get a gift - one free domain registration.

Virtual private servers

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The Virtual private servers hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your site outgrows the resources offered by your shared web hosting account, a private virtual web server hosting plan is a possible option. private virtual web server hosting users still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS web hosting users, but the physical machine is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like a full-fledged dedicated web hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a VPS hosting server are not shared. Besides, the virtualization software gives you much more autonomy to configure your virtual private hosting server, but it also calls for a more advanced degree of technical expertise.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the user gets an entire dedicated web hosting server and can utilize all its resources. The dedicated hosting solution is the most flexible of all hosting solutions and offers plenty of configuration options - the dedicated web hosting customers can pick the hardware and software specs that will fulfill their demands. Dedicated system resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server is a perfect choice for a resource-swallowing corporate site, for example - you will not share the dedicated web server's system resources with anyone else and will receive root access. You will exercise complete authority over the hosting server, which will permit you to make any configuration modifications that you might require. The setback of the dedicated hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical proficiency is needed - unless you hire an IT pro, you will be responsible for administering and configuring the dedicated server. The dedicated web server hosting solution is also much more high-priced, since the cost of the dedicated hosting web server isn't shared between any other customers.

A hosting tip for beginners

If you are just starting to create your web site and are seeking a website hosting solution to begin with, the shared web hosting solution persists to be the most appropriate option. If your web site grows beyond your website hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is very easy and requires no migration of your web site files, because only the features of your web hosting account change. You can also upgrade your hosting package to a more advanced one at any particular time without having to worry about the number of days remaining before the expiration date. What is more, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared web hosting plan and still need more system resources (which is great sometimes - it means that your website's popularity has risen!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a private virtual web server hosting solution or a dedicated server hosting platform without the need to switch hosting service providers.