Shared Hosting Explanation

Shared hosting is a service that web hosting corporations provide so that you can upload your website online.

How can people discover your site?

When you create a website and you would like other people to visit it, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a hosting server. If you attempt to make the website discoverable on the Internet by shared hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it constantly online, which is why website hosting services exist.

How does shared hosting work?

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

Types of web hosting

With the advancement of Internet technologies, different types of web hosting services have appeared to answer the various expectations of web site possessors, including shared website hosting services, virtual private web server hosting services and dedicated web server hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared website hosting is the most popular type of hosting, and is also the easiest to begin with. It is a service where one server is shared among many shared hosting account holders who are limited by the CPU, traffic and web server disk drive space quotas that they have been allotted. This type of hosting is normally cheaper - you don't need to purchase the whole hosting server upfront, as it is shared among many clients, and the web hosting solutions provider can afford to provide much more moderate prices. It is also easier to use - the web hosting server is pre-configured with all the required software and the hosting services provider handles all server maintenance procedures and software updates for you.

The weak side of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's system resources with other users and if one website becomes very busy it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the sites on that hosting server, but the majority of hosting vendors, including us at Azaste.Net, have security systems in place that hinder that from happening.

A description of a website hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most commonly used type of web hosting, most hosting firms and hosting clients simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a huge competition on the website hosting market, the majority of web hosts endeavor to offer cheap prices and gifts with their services. We, for instance, provide different hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and annual, depending on your funds. If you select the annual invoicing cycle, you will get a bonus - one free-of-charge domain registration.

VPS hosting

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated web hosting solution. If your website grows beyond the resources offered by your shared web hosting plan, a virtual private web hosting server plan is a possible option. private virtual web server hosting customers still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS hosting users, but the physical server is split up using a special virtualization technology so that each partition has its own dedicated system resources and can be configured practically like an actual dedicated web server. The upside is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private web hosting server are not shared. Additionally, the virtualization software offers you much more autonomy to configure your private virtual web server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical proficiency.

Dedicated Hosting

With the Dedicated Hosting solution, the client obtains an entire dedicated hosting web server and can utilize all its resources. The dedicated hosting solution is the most reliable of all hosting solutions and offers plenty of customization options - the dedicated server web hosting clients can pick the hardware and software specifications that will fulfill their requirements. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are two reasons why a dedicated server is a perfect solution for a content-heavy business site, for example - you will not share the web hosting server's resources with anyone else and will acquire complete root-level access. You will have full authority over the physical server, which will allow you to implement any configuration modifications that you might require. The drawback of the dedicated hosting solution is that a higher level of technical proficiency is required - unless you employ an Information Technology specialist, it will be your responsibility to administer and configure the physical server. The dedicated server hosting solution is also far more high-priced, because the cost of the dedicated hosting web server isn't shared among any other clients.

A website hosting recommendation for novices

If you are just starting to set up your website and are searching for a hosting solution to start out with, the shared website hosting solution persists to be the most suitable choice. If your web site outgrows your shared web hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and does not involve migration of your web site files, because only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your website hosting package to a more powerful one at any particular time without worrying about the remaining time before expiration. Besides, if you finally reach the most advanced shared hosting plan and still require more resources (which is great sometimes - it signifies that your website's popularity has increased!), there always is the possibility to migrate to a private virtual web server or a dedicated web hosting solution without the need to change web hosting providers.