What is Shared Hosting?

Shared hosting is a type of online service that enables individuals and organizations to render their web sites visible on the Internet. Web hosting service providers are companies that offer hard drive storage space on a hosting server held in a datacenter facility and ensure constant website availability.

Where do you begin?

The World Wide Web is an integral part of our everyday life. It gives you the ability to earn additional cash, but can also be a chief source of income. In order to put commercials on your website or to popularize a product that you offer, you invariably require a hosting solution, which will guarantee that your web site is protected and continually visible. But how do you find one that is affordable and yet reliable enough?

The shared hosting platform

The solution web hosting corporations have introduced is named shared hosting. With the shared web hosting solution, lots of customers are accommodated on the same web hosting server. There are harsh limitations on the resources that each hosting account can actually use, thus making certain that they do not meddle with each other. The shared web hosting solution offers acceptable performance and costs less than, let's say, a dedicated web hosting server, which is utilized by only one single user. The shared solution allows shared hosting companies to offer their clients moderate prices. It usually comes with user-friendly Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at SCI-SERVERS provide, and allows everyone to administer their web sites without bothering about server installation and maintenance tasks, which are handled solely by the hosting plans provider.

Virtual private servers hosting

With the virtual private servers hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical server with other clients, but you are allotted a dedicated share of the resources. The private virtual server solution is the middle ground between the much more moderately priced shared web hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated web hosting server solution, and is a perfect solution for anyone who wants to run, for instance, an audio or video streaming site or a community portal. The fact that you need to cope with the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a disadvantage, but this could also be a great upside if you really need to make some server configuration modifications - something that would be unthinkable on a shared hosting web server.

Dedicated Servers

Dedicated servers are in most cases much more expensive than shared hosting or Virtual Private Server hosting solutions. You might ask why would anyone use a dedicated web hosting server then? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a repeatedly visited web page, or just has very specific server configuration and safety requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated web server that you or your techs can manage directly. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You are granted full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your web portals.