Shared Hosting Packages Revealed

Shared hosting is a service that hosting distributors offer so that you can put your website on the Internet.

How can people view your web site?

When you create a web site and you want other persons to check it out, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a server. If you try to make the web site reachable on the web by shared hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it online all the time, which is why website hosting services came into being.

How does shared hosting work?

Hosting firms offer you disk space for your site on their powerful computers (web servers) and guarantee constant website availability. When someone writes your domain (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the server where they can take a glimpse at the content of your website.

Types of web hosting

With the advancement of online technologies, several types of web hosting services have appeared to meet the different needs of web site possessors, including shared website hosting services, Virtual Private Server hosting services and dedicated hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared web hosting is the most common type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where a single hosting server is shared between many clients who are limited by the CPU, web traffic and web hosting server storage space quotas that they have been allocated. This type of website hosting is commonly cheaper - you don't have to pay for the entire web server in advance, as it is divided between multiple users, and the web hosting provider can afford to provide much more reasonable prices. It is also much easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-configured with all the required software and the hosting provider takes care of all server maintenance tasks and security updates for you.

The weak side of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's resources with other hosting customers and if one web site becomes really busy it may influence (and slow down) all the other sites on that server, but the majority of web hosting vendors, including us at World Hosting, have security systems at work that prevent that from taking place.

A description of a website hosting service

Because shared hosting is the most commonly used form of web hosting, the majority of web hosting companies and web hosting customers simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense competition on the website hosting marketplace, the majority of web hosts endeavor to offer reasonable prices and bonuses with their web hosting services. We, for instance, offer different website hosting packages and two invoicing options - monthly and annual, based on your finances. If you choose the annual invoicing cycle, you will receive a gift - one charge-free domain name registration.

Virtual private servers packages

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The Virtual private servers hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your web site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared web hosting plan, a VPS hosting server plan is an excellent solution. virtual private web server hosting clients still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other virtual private web server hosting clients, but the hard disk is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured almost like a real dedicated web server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a virtual private web server are not shared. In addition, the virtualization technology gives you much more autonomy to configure your virtual web server, but it also calls for a higher level of technical knowledge.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the customer obtains a whole web hosting server and can utilize all its resources. The dedicated web server hosting solution is the most reliable of all hosting solutions and offers loads of customization options - the dedicated server web hosting clients can pick the hardware and software specifications that will answer their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated server web hosting package is an excellent choice for a data-heavy corporate portal, for example - you will not share the web hosting server's resources with anyone else and will be bestowed with full root access. You will have full authority over the physical server, which will permit you to implement any server configuration modifications that you might require. The setback of the dedicated web hosting solution is that a higher level of technical proficiency is required - unless you hire an Information Technology pro, you will be responsible for managing and configuring the dedicated hosting web server. The dedicated hosting solution is also much more high-priced, because the cost of the dedicated web hosting server isn't shared among any other customers.

A website hosting advice for beginners

If you are just beginning to create your site and are searching for a website hosting solution to start out with, the shared hosting solution remains the most sensible choice. If your site outgrows your hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and does not involve migration of your data, since only the features of your hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting package to a more advanced one at any given time without having to worry about the time remaining before the expiration date. Also, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared web hosting plan and still need more resources (which is great sometimes - it means that your web site's popularity has grown!), there always is the possibility to move to a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated server hosting solution without the need to switch hosting providers.