Shared Hosting Explanation

You have a conception that you would like to convert into a site? Your first move should be to preserve your inspiration and find a place for your website online so that it will be always visible to the whole world.

Where should you host your site?

Since the number of web pages on the Internet has grown exponentially during the last few years, the need for website hosting services has also lead to the emergence of incalculable shared hosting distributors. These are companies that offer you content storage space for your own web site on their web servers.

Sorts of hosting services

The scope of hosting services varies vastly, so do the necessities of the web page possessors. The most basic type of web hosting is the small-scale file hosting solution, where files can be uploaded using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web-based hosting Control Panel. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) deliver this service free of cost. Personal web site proprietors and firms can also get web hosting services from various web hosting providers. Personal web hosting services are usually either free, ad-sponsored, or inexpensive. Business website hosting services usually are more expensive, but owing to the immense competition on the web hosting market, an increasing number of web hosting distributors, like us at WebSensePro, supply business website hosting services at cheap prices and with flexible invoicing intervals.

Sorts of web sites and their requirements

The free-of-cost website hosting solution is generally sufficient for personal web pages such as portfolios or blogs. A busier web site, such as a social networking web site or a corporate page, necessitates a more powerful website hosting package that offers database support and application development platforms (including PHP). If you wish to build an e-store, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the hosting provider of your choosing. Nowadays, Secure Sockets Layer certificates are offered by the majority of hosting firms.

The web hosting Control Panel

The hosting vendor usually also provides a hosting Control Panel tool for managing your files, emails, e-mail aliases, domain names, DNS records, and so on.

Service stability

When choosing a hosting supplier, service uptime is a very important criterion. The availability of a web site is measured on an annual basis by taking into account the time when the web site is publicly accessible and visible on the web. Network and service availability guarantees, therefore, should be vigilantly examined when signing up for a web hosting service. The best thing to do is double-check the SLAs and the ToS of the service provider of your choosing in advance. Finding reviews from current clients is also a pretty good step before you choose to sign up.

The shared hosting solution

The most widespread and modestly priced type of web hosting service is the shared hosting solution. It offers 24x7x365 support, which is a big upside for customers who would not like to cope with server maintenance tasks, but could also hamper clients who desire to have more authority over the server. For such customers, a virtual private servers or a dedicated hosting would be more suitable. Most popular applications and scripts work okay on a shared hosting web server. Moreover, the shared web hosting solution is cheaper than other types of web hosting solutions, such as the dedicated hosting, since the hosting accounts provider divides the shared server among plenty of customers. The shared hosting platform typically involves usage restrictions that ensure that the different users do not meddle with each other and that the server remains stable.

Administering your shared website hosting account

Shared web hosting packages typically include a web-based hosting Control Panel GUI, such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, etc. The majority of the large-sized web hosting companies, again like us at WebSensePro, make use of their very own custom-developed hosting Control Panel interface.

Web server maintenance

With the shared web hosting platform, the service provider is responsible for administering the web and electronic mail servers, for installing web server software, security updates and patches, and for offering technical support to its clients. Most servers are based on the Linux Operating System. The hosting supplier's sysadmins are in charge of maintaining the Operating System up to date, unless you have a dedicated hosting server and complete root-level access.