Shared Hosting Unveiled

Shared hosting is a service that hosting service providers offer so that you can publish your site on the Internet.

How can people open your site?

When you create a site and you would like other people to observe it, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a server. If you try to make the web site available online by shared hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it constantly online, which is why hosting services appeared.

How does shared hosting work?

Web hosting firms offer you hard drive space for your website on their powerful computers (hosting servers) and ensure uninterrupted Internet connectivity. When somebody types your web site address (for instance www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the hosting server where they can have a peek at the content of your site.

Web hosting varieties

With the development of online technologies, several types of web hosting services have emerged to satisfy the various expectations of web site owners, among them shared website hosting services, VPS web hosting services and dedicated server web hosting services.

Shared web hosting

Shared website hosting is the most common form of hosting, and is also the easiest to start with. It is a service where a single web server is divided between many hosting users who are limited by the CPU, web traffic and server space quotas that they have been allocated. This type of website hosting is usually less expensive - you don't have to purchase the entire hosting server in advance, since it is shared among lots of web hosting customers, and the web hosting vendor can afford to provide much more affordable prices. It is also easier to use - the server is pre-configured with all the required software and the web hosting services provider takes care of all server maintenance procedures and software updates for you.

The negative side of the shared website hosting solution is that you share the server's system resources with other web hosting customers and if a given website becomes very popular it may influence (and slow down) the rest of the sites on that web server, but most web hosting suppliers, including us at SEOdominio, have security platforms in place that impede that from occurring.

A description of a website hosting service

Since shared website hosting is the most commonly used form of web hosting, most hosting providers and web hosting clients simply call it web hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense rivalry on the website hosting market, the majority of hosting companies endeavor to provide moderate prices and bonuses with their services. We, for example, offer different hosting packages and two billing options - monthly and yearly, depending on your resources. If you choose the annual billing cycle, you will obtain a gift - one charge-free domain registration.

Virtual private servers plans

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 server hosting solution. If your web site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared website hosting package, a VPS server hosting plan is an excellent choice. virtual web server hosting account holders still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other Virtual Private Server hosting account holders, but the physical server is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed system resources and can be configured almost like a full-fledged dedicated hosting server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a VPS hosting server are not shared. Besides, the virtualization software offers you much more autonomy to configure your virtual web server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical competence.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the user gets a whole physical server and can use all its system resources. The dedicated server hosting solution is the most powerful of all web hosting solutions and offers plenty of customization possibilities - the dedicated web server hosting users can choose the hardware and software specifications that will meet their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are two reasons why a dedicated web server hosting package is an excellent option for a heavy-traffic business website, for example - you will not share the dedicated server's resources with anyone else and will receive full server root access. You will have full authority over the server, which will allow you to implement any server configuration modifications that you might need. The downside of the dedicated hosting solution is that a higher level of technical expertise is required - unless you engage an IT professional, you will be responsible for administering and configuring the dedicated hosting server. The dedicated server hosting solution is also much more expensive, because the cost of the physical server isn't shared among any other clients.

A website hosting tip for beginner users

If you are just beginning to set up your site and are seeking a web hosting solution to start out with, the shared hosting solution remains the most reasonable option. If your site grows beyond your web hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and requires no migration of your web site files, since only the parameters 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 left before expiration. Furthermore, if you finally reach the most advanced shared website hosting plan and still need more resources (which is great sometimes - it indicates that your website's popularity has increased!), there always is the possibility to move to a private virtual web hosting server or a dedicated hosting web server without the need to switch web hosting service providers.