Shared Hosting Description

The most fundamental and universally availed of type of web hosting is the shared hosting solution. It constitutes a way to host your web page without having to be much informed about programming and running a web hosting server. Besides, it's also the most inexpensive type of hosting and it's in fact affordable for everybody. Nevertheless, what is shared hosting?

What is shared hosting?

As the name indicates, the shared hosting service is a kind of service where numerous clients share the reserves of the same web server. This implies that all web hosting server ingredients such as CPU, hard disks, RAM, NICs etc. are allocated among the users whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly made viable by opening different accounts for the different clients and appointing certain limitations and usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are imposed in order to restrain the customers from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the web server from overloading. Normally, shared hosting customers do not have full root access to the web server's configuration files, which principally suggests that they do not have access to anything else on the server aside from their own personal hosting account. The web hosting features that each account may avail of are determined by the hosting distributor that owns the hosting server and by the respective website hosting plan. That brings on the second essential question:

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

Web hosting firms that supply shared hosting accounts normally have different website hosting packages. Those plans involve diverse quotas of website hosting features and specs, which actually fix the limits that a website hosting account will include. The customer may choose between the separate web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will suit him best. The website hosting plan will then determine what limitations the user's account will involve, once set up. The costs and the features of the hosting plans are determined by the particular hosting provider. Depending on the policy of the company, the shared hosting service falls into 2 categories - the free hosting solution and the popular shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to tell, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from each other and they actually are subject to the business strategy of the particular provider and, of course, the needs of the specific customer.

What is the contrast between the free of charge and the classic shared hosting service?

Of course, the chief difference between the free and the paid service is in the amount of resources that they involve. Free hosting providers are not capable of maintaining an immense number of web hosting servers, therefore, they plainly host more users on a single web server by decreasing the amount of resources offered by the accounts. This will be effective only in case the hosting servers are monitored and dealt with properly, because the great number of accounts may make the server crash again and again. The majority of the free web hosting firms, however, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's quite tough to stumble upon a free of charge website hosting solution that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting firms commonly provide free client support even to the free web hosting clients, because they want their web pages to get bigger so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting package, which includes more website hosting features. One such distributor, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free website hosting providers in the world.

At the same time, established shared hosting vendors like us, may afford to maintain many web servers and so, we may afford to offer much more feature-rich website hosting packages. Of course, that affects the cost of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher fee for a web hosting plan, though, does not automatically denote that this account has a better quality. The best solutions are the balanced ones, which involve a price that matches the concrete service which you're obtaining. Besides, we also offer a free extra with the web hosting package, such as the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of free-of-cost site layouts. As a website hosting firm, we do care about our good name and that's why if you select us, you can be certain that you won't get deluded into paying for an account that you cannot in fact avail of.

What should I anticipate from a shared hosting service?

The shared hosting solution is best for those who would like to host an average web portal, which is going to consume a small or medium amount of traffic each month. You cannot anticipate, though, that a shared hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your web site will become more and more resource consuming. Hence, you will have to eventually migrate to a more feature-rich web hosting solution such as a semi-dedicated servers, a virtual private servers (aka a virtual private web server, or VPS), or even a dedicated server. Therefore, when choosing a website hosting company, you should also think about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a separate vendor, which can create site complications and even continued downtime for your web page. If you choose Red 1 Rebel as your hosting provider, you can rest safe that we can provide you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow, is essential and will spare you a lot of annoyances in the long run.