Shared Hosting Uncovered

Shared hosting is a sort of online service that allows persons and organizations to render their online portals accessible on the web. Web hosting service providers are firms that offer data storage space on a hosting server housed in a data center and guarantee constant website accessibility.

Where do you start?

The Internet has become an integral component of every individual's everyday life. It gives you the possibility to gain extra cash, but can also be a major source of revenue. In order to put ads on your site or to popularize a product or a service that you offer, you always require a hosting service, which will make certain that your web portal is safe and continually up and running. But how do you find one that is moderately priced and yet dependable enough?

The shared hosting platform

The solution web hosting vendors have introduced is called shared hosting. With the shared web hosting solution, numerous hosting users are accommodated on one and the same server. There are rigorous restrictions on the resources that each web hosting account can actually resort to, thus making certain that they do not meddle with each other. The shared web hosting solution offers good performance and costs less than, let's say, a dedicated web server, which is utilized by only one single person. The shared hosting solution permits shared hosting suppliers to offer their customers inexpensive prices. It typically includes intuitive web hosting Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at HMAHost provide, and enables everyone to manage their websites without bothering about server installation and maintenance tasks, which are taken care of solely by the hosting firm.

Virtual private servers hosting

With the virtual private servers hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical server with other Virtual Private Server hosting clients, but you are allocated a dedicated share of the resources. The private virtual server web hosting solution is the middle ground between the much cheaper shared web hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated hosting server solution, and is an excellent option for anyone who wants to create, for instance, an audio or video streaming web site or a community website. The fact that you need to take care of the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a disadvantage, but this could also be a big advantage if you indeed need to implement certain server configuration changes - something that would be impossible on a shared hosting server.

Dedicated Servers

Dedicated servers are in most instances much more high-priced than shared or VPS server hosting solutions. You might ask why would anyone want to use a dedicated web hosting server then? The answer is rather simple. If your company has a resource-absorbing website, or just has very exact server configuration and safety requirements, the most intelligent choice would be a dedicated hosting server that you or your admins can manage directly. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not a concern. You receive root privileges and can use 100% of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your sites.