How Shared Web Hosting Works

You have an idea that you wish to turn into a site? Your first step should be to sustain your enthusiasm and find a place for your web page online so that it will be always accessible to the whole world.

Where should you host your web site?

Since the number of web sites online has risen rapidly during the last couple of years, the need for web hosting services has also lead to the birth of incalculable shared web hosting providers. These are companies that offer you space for your own web site on their web hosting servers.

Varieties of web hosting services

The reach of web hosting services varies vastly, so do the needs of the web page owners. The most basic web hosting type 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) provide this service for free. Personal web page possessors and corporations can also obtain website hosting services from various web hosting suppliers. Personal website hosting services are typically either free, advertisement-sponsored, or affordably priced. Business website hosting services often are more expensive, but owing to the gigantic rivalry on the market, an increasing number of hosting distributors, like us at DDD Web Services, offer business website hosting services at cut-rate prices and with flexible billing periods.

Kinds of sites and their prerequisites

The cost-free hosting platform is generally sufficient for personal web sites such as portfolios or online journals. A more regularly visited website, like a social networking web site or a corporate web page, necessitates a more advanced web hosting package that offers database support and application development platforms (for example PHP). If you want to host an e-commerce site, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) must be supported by the hosting services provider of your choosing. Now, Secure Sockets Layer certificates are provided by most web hosting suppliers.

The web hosting Control Panel

The hosting distributor typically also provides a hosting Control Panel GUI for handling your web content, email mailbox accounts, mailbox aliases, domains, DNS records, and so on.

Service uptime

When picking a hosting package, network uptime is a very vital criterion. The accessibility of a web site is assessed on an annual basis by taking into consideration the time when the website is publicly available and reachable online. Network and service availability guarantees, therefore, should be cautiously taken into account when signing up for a hosting plan. You should re-examine the SLAs and the Terms of Service of the web host of your choice in advance. Reading online reviews from current clients is also a rather clever move before you choose to subscribe.

The shared web hosting platform

The most widespread and affordably priced type of web hosting service is the shared hosting solution. It includes round-the-clock customer support, which is a huge advantage for users who would not like to cope with server maintenance procedures, but could also hamper users who would like to have more authority over the web server. For such customers, a virtual private servers or a dedicated server web hosting would be more suitable. Most standard applications and scripts work alright on a shared hosting web server. What's more, the shared web hosting solution costs less than other kinds of web hosting solutions, such as the dedicated servers web hosting, since the hosting solutions provider splits the server among numerous clients. The shared hosting solution usually includes resource usage restrictions that ensure that the different users do not intervene with each other and that the web server stays stable.

Handling your shared hosting account

Shared web hosting packages normally include a web-based web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface, such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, and so on. Most of the large-sized web hosting vendors, again like us at DDD Web Services, make use of their very own personal custom-developed hosting Control Panel interface.

Web server maintenance

With the shared web hosting solution, the hosting packages provider is responsible for administering the web and electronic mail servers, for installing server software, software updates and patches, and for providing technical support to its clients. Most servers are based on the Linux Operating System. The web hosting supplier's system administrators are responsible for keeping the Operating System up to date, unless you have a dedicated server and full server root privileges.