What Precisely is Shared Hosting?

Shared hosting is a sort of online service that permits persons and organizations to make their websites viewable online. Web hosting providers are companies that offer hard disk storage space on a hosting server placed in a data center facility and guarantee continuous network connectivity.

Where do you begin?

The World Wide Web is an integral staple in our daily routine. It gives you the opportunity to earn some side cash, but can also be a chief source of income. In order to place ads on your site or to advertise a product that you offer, you always need a hosting service, which will make sure that your web portal is protected and constantly visible. But how do you find one that is cheap and yet dependable enough?

The shared hosting platform

The solution web hosting firms have brought forth is called shared hosting. With the shared hosting solution, many hosting users are accommodated on the same web server. There are strict limits on the system resources that each hosting account can actually resort to, thus guaranteeing that they do not intervene with each other. The shared web hosting solution offers decent performance and is less expensive than, let's say, a dedicated server, which is used by just one user. The shared hosting solution permits shared hosting service providers to offer their customers competitive prices. It ordinarily comes with user-friendly web hosting Control Panel software, as is the case with the server that we at DreamHost provide, and allows everyone to administer their sites without worrying about server setup and maintenance procedures, which are entirely handled by the hosting accounts provider.

Virtual private servers hosting

With the virtual private servers hosting solution, on the other hand, you share a physical machine with other VPS web server hosting customers, but you are allocated a dedicated share of the system resources. The private virtual hosting server solution is the middle ground between the much less expensive shared hosting solution and the more expensive dedicated web server solution, and is a very good solution for anyone who would like to launch, for instance, a live streaming site or a social networking site. The fact that you need to deal with the web server configuration settings and software updates yourself is somewhat of a weakness, but this could also be a great benefit if you really need to make some server configuration changes - something that would be inconceivable on a shared web server.

Dedicated Servers

Dedicated servers are in the majority of circumstances much more expensive than shared or virtual server hosting solutions. You might wonder why would anyone want to use a dedicated server then? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a high resource-devouring web page, or simply has very special server configuration and security requirements, the proper option would be a dedicated web server that you or your server administrators can administer directly. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You obtain full root privileges and can use 100% of the hosting server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and intervening with your sites.