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How Shared Hosting Operates

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Shared hosting is a service that companies provide so that you can upload your site online.

How can people observe your site?

When you set up a site and you wish other individuals to see it, you will have to copy (or upload) it to a hosting server. If you attempt to make the site reachable on the Internet by shared hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it always online, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does shared hosting work?

Hosting providers offer you disk drive space for your website on their high-powered computers (web servers) and guarantee constant Internet access. When someone writes your website address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the server where they can have a glance at the content of your site.

Web hosting types

With the development of web technologies, several types of web hosting services have come into existence to meet the different expectations of web site possessors, including shared website hosting services, virtual server hosting services and dedicated hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared web hosting is the most popular form of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where one server is shared among lots of hosting account holders who are restricted by the CPU, bandwidth and disk drive storage space quotas that they have been assigned. This type of website hosting is typically less expensive - you don't need to pay for the entire hosting server in advance, since it is shared among many hosting users, and the hosting distributor can afford to offer much more moderate prices. It is also easier to use - the web server is pre-installed with all the necessary software and the web hosting provider handles all server maintenance tasks and software updates for you.

The negative side of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other web hosting clients and if one site becomes really popular it may affect (and slow down) all the other web sites on that web hosting server, but the majority of hosting distributors, including us at Cmstechovation Enterprise, have security systems at work that obstruct that from taking place.

A definition of a website hosting service

Because shared website hosting is the most widely used form of web hosting, most web hosting firms and web hosting customers simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a considerable rivalry on the website hosting market, the majority of web hosting suppliers strive to offer reasonable prices and bonuses with their hosting services. We, for instance, offer different website hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and yearly, based on your finances. If you choose the annual billing cycle, you will get a bonus - one cost-free domain registration.

VPS hosting

VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated server web hosting solution. If your website outgrows the resources offered by your shared website hosting plan, a VPS package is an appropriate choice. VPS hosting customers still share the hardware resources of the physical server with other VPS web hosting customers, but the disk drive space is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like a real dedicated hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a VPS are not shared. Furthermore, the virtualization software offers you much more freedom to configure your private virtual server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical proficiency.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the customer obtains a whole web hosting server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated server hosting solution is the most flexible of all website hosting solutions and offers tons of configuration options - the dedicated web hosting customers can choose the hardware and software specs that will match their demands. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are among the reasons why a dedicated hosting web server is an excellent option for a resource-swallowing business website, for instance - you will not share the hosting server's resources with anyone else and will be granted root access. You will exert complete control over the web hosting server, which will enable you to make any server configuration changes that you might need. The weakness of the dedicated hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical knowledge is required - unless you hire an IT specialist, it will be your duty to manage and configure the dedicated hosting server. The dedicated hosting solution also costs much more, because the cost of the physical server isn't shared among any other clients.

A web hosting advice for beginner users

If you are just starting to build your site and need a website hosting solution to start out with, the shared website hosting solution persists to be the most relevant option. If your web site grows beyond your shared web hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and requires no migration of your website files, since only the parameters of your hosting account change. You can also upgrade your hosting plan to a more powerful one at any particular moment without worrying about the time remaining before expiration. Additionally, if you finally reach the most powerful shared website hosting package and still require more resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it means that your site's popularity has expanded!), there always is the possibility to move to a virtual hosting server or a dedicated hosting platform without needing to change web hosting providers.

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