What Exactly is Shared Hosting?

The most primary and regularly utilized variety of web hosting is the web hosting solution. It constitutes a way to host your website without having to be much informed about programming and managing a server. What's more, it's also the most inexpensive form of website hosting and it's quite affordable for everyone. Still, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

As the name indicates, the web hosting solution is a sort of service where many users share the system reserves of one and the same server. This implies that all web server components like CPU, hard disks, RAM, network interface cards etc. are split among the customers whose accounts are on that very same hosting server. This is mainly made possible by opening separate accounts for the different customers and setting given limitations and resource usage quotas for each of them. Those limits are appointed in order to restrain the users from intervening with each other's accounts and, of course, to prevent the server from overburdening. Usually, web hosting customers do not have full root access to the hosting server's configuration files, which basically indicates that they do not have access to anything else on the hosting server apart from their own personal hosting account. The web hosting resources that each account may use are set by the hosting vendor that owns the web hosting server and by the particular web hosting plan. That gives rise to the second vital question:

How are the shared hosting servers divided among the users?

Web hosting corporations that deliver web hosting packages typically have various website hosting packages. Those plans include different quotas of website hosting resources and specifications, which actually define the limits that a web hosting plan will include. The user may choose between the individual web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will fit him best. The hosting plan will then define what limitations the user's account will include, once opened. The costs and the features of the web hosting plans are determined by the actual web hosting distributor. Based on the policy of the distributor, the web hosting service falls into two categories - the free hosting solution and the popular shared service, most recently very popular among "cPanel hosting" firms as a cloud web hosting one. It's impossible to state, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they actually are dependent on the marketing policy of the particular company and, of course, the demands of the given user.

What is the distinction between the free and the popular web hosting service?

Of course, the primary difference between the free of cost and the paid solution is in the quantity of resources that they offer. Free hosting companies are not capable of keeping a huge amount of hosting servers, therefore, they just accommodate more users on one hosting server by lowering the quantity of system resources provided by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the hosting servers are kept under surveillance and dealt with properly, because the great number of accounts may make the hosting server crash frequently. Most of the free website hosting firms, though, neglect the quality of the service and therefore, it's quite difficult to find a free website hosting service that's in fact worth the time. The top free hosting firms usually offer free customer support even to the free website hosting customers, because they want their web sites to get bigger so that they eventually upgrade to a paid web hosting account, which offers more website hosting resources. One such firm, for example, is FreeHostia.com, which is one of the largest and eldest free web hosting suppliers worldwide.

At the same time, established web hosting corporations like us, are able to maintain numerous web servers and hence, we are able to offer much more feature-rich web hosting plans. Of course, that reflects on the pricing of the web hosting plans. Paying a higher price for a website hosting package, though, does not necessarily denote that this plan has a better quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which offer a price that corresponds to the actual service which you're getting. Moreover, we also give a free bonus with the web hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, accompanied by hundreds of charge-free web site skins. As a web hosting distributor, we do care about our reputation and this is the reason why if you choose us, you can be certain that you won't get hoaxed into buying a service that you cannot actually utilize.

What should I expect from a web hosting service?

The web hosting solution is best for people who wish to host an average website, which is going to utilize a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot expect, however, that a web hosting account will be sufficient for your needs, since as your business gets bigger, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. Therefore, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more feature-rich website hosting service such as a semi-dedicated web hosting, a VPS web hosting (aka a private virtual web hosting server, or VPS), or even a dedicated web hosting. So, when selecting a web hosting vendor, you should also reflect about scalability, or else you might end up transferring your domain manually to a different company, which can bring about site predicaments and even continued downtime for your website. If you go with Ribap Hosting as your web hosting supplier, you can rest safe that we can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is essential and will spare you a lot of predicaments in the future.