Explanation of Shared Hosting

You have a notion that you desire to turn into a web site? Your very first step should be to sustain your inspiration and discover a spot for your site on the Internet so that it will be always available for the whole world to see.

Where should you host your web site?

Because the number of websites on the World Wide Web has grown rapidly over the last few years, the need for web hosting services has also lead to the birth of countless shared hosting corporations. These are firms that offer you disk drive storage space for your own site on their servers.

Sorts of web hosting services

The ambit of hosting services fluctuates vastly, so do the needs of the web page possessors. The most basic hosting type is the small-size file hosting solution, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a web-based user interface. A lot of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer this service free of charge. Personal website owners and corporations can also get web hosting services from different web hosting suppliers. Personal website hosting services are typically either free, advertisement-financed, or low-priced. Business website hosting services usually cost more, but due to the great rivalry on the hosting market, an escalating number of web hosting service providers, like us at Emerald Gold Hosting, provide business website hosting services at low prices and with flexible invoicing cycles.

Sorts of sites and their requirements

The free web hosting platform is usually sufficient for personal websites like portfolios or blogs. A more demanding web site, such as a social networking website or a corporate web site, calls for a more advanced website hosting solution that provides database support and web application development platforms (e.g. PHP). If you want to launch a web store, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the web hosting provider of your choosing. As of now, SSL certificates are furnished by the majority of web hosting suppliers.

The web hosting Control Panel

The web hosting provider usually also offers a hosting Control Panel graphical user interface for handling your web content, e-mail accounts, mail aliases, domain names, DNS records, and so on.

Service stability

When picking a hosting solutions provider, service uptime is a very essential criterion. The accessibility of a web site is estimated on a yearly basis by taking into account the time when the web site is publicly accessible and discoverable on the Internet. Network and service uptime guarantees, therefore, should be vigilantly considered when signing up for a hosting service. The best thing to do is re-examine the service-level agreements and the TOS of the hosting vendor of your choice in advance. Finding online reviews from current clients is also a rather clever move before you decide to register.

The shared hosting platform

The most widely used and inexpensive type of web hosting service is the shared hosting solution. It offers 24/7 client support, which is a great asset for users who would not like to cope with server maintenance tasks, but could also obstruct users who would like to exert more control over the hosting server. For such users, a virtual private servers or a dedicated servers would be more suitable. Most standard applications and scripts work alright on a shared hosting web server. In addition, the shared hosting solution is more affordable than other kinds of web hosting solutions, like the dedicated hosting, because the web hosting provider divides the hosting server among plenty of customers. The shared hosting platform typically involves resource usage limits that ensure that the separate users do not intervene with each other and that the web server stays stable.

Managing your shared website hosting account

Shared web hosting plans usually include a web-based hosting Control Panel graphical user interface, like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, and so on. The majority of the large-size hosting companies, again like us at Emerald Gold Hosting, utilize their own custom-designed Control Panel interface.

Web server maintenance

With the shared web hosting solution, the hosting services provider is responsible for managing the web and email servers, for installing server software, security updates and patches, and for offering tech support to its customers. The majority of servers are based on the Linux Operating System. The web hosting vendor's system administrators are responsible for keeping the OS up to date, unless you have a dedicated server and root privileges.