SHARED HOSTING
Selecting a perfect web hosting service can make your site give a fabulous experience for both public and private viewing. A user needs to decide a domain name first, register it and then choose a web hosting service for the same. A web hosting company generally offers three types of services to their customers. They are (1) virtual private server hosting, (2) shared web hosting and (3) dedicated server hosting.
The user chooses a web hosting plan depending on the amount of control he or she wants to have on the website. It is the choice of the user for the smooth and efficient outcome of their website.
A Shared Web Hosting service is becoming popular now days. As the name itself suggests, many small website owners and users upload their website files and folders on the same server and run them. They share the web space depending on their needs. A shared web hosting service is mainly tried by the beginners, small business owners and by some organizations. Basically in such type of service all the website owners need to have very little bandwidth and disk space to execute their website. This type of hosting is generally used in situation when the user does not expect much visitors and traffic on their website.
In shared web server hosting all the things necessary for the maintenance of server is looked after the website host provider. The server is managed by website host provider and they are accountable for any type of problems arising in the website.
The best part of such type of shared web hosting service is that it is cheaper to get. The user can carry out in either of the two methods of hosting service. One is name based hosting service and other is IP based hosting service. In name based web hosting service, many names can be operated by a single IP address whereas, in case of IP based web hosting service each website on the server has a dedicated IP address.
Shared Hosting also known as virtual hosting, it occurs only when you dish out a monthly fee to the third party service provider in order to use their equipment for your web server. The Service provider handles everything ranging from backup and security to setting up the server and managing the bandwidth. The main features of Server Hosting are:
Sharing the IP address since the services are shared with the other web sites hence the IP address has to be the same.
Greater Response time: If there are two or more websites on the same server it goes without saying that the response time for each individual website would be longer.
Server Crashes Often: In some cases the hosting server does not monitor the server activities properly, and thus the server gets overloaded and gets crashes.
Cost Effective: The most important benefit of the shared hosting is the cost factor. Since you are sharing the services with the other website it becomes pretty economical and cheap.
A shared hosting plan can get you started on the right foot, but there are many signs that indicate when it is time to upgrade. For example, once your site starts to grow and traffic picks up, the resources provided by your current host may no longer be enough to support your needs. When this occurs, you are typically creating more content and bringing in more visitors so your storage and bandwidth requirements will shift dramatically. While some hosts will allow you to upgrade to higher allotments, several do not.
Technical Support: while choosing a host make sure that they offer live chat, ticket based or email based support and support 24x7 in your language. They should also have a toll free number and able support representatives.
Hosting Features: It should be manageable for your website and scripts to function properly. Check the offered control panels and try a demo to make sure you are comfortable with it. Also monitor the web stats.
Disk Space: Offering high disk space is not important but it is important to offer enough disk space. You can easily upgrade if/when required with most hosts.
Monthly Bandwidth: Usage of 100GB per month is considered good which means lots and lots of visitors and offer for more bandwidth than that can be a marketing trick.
Server Performance: Check the confinements of the server they are putting you on. Check the capacity of RAM, CPU power, number of accounts on a single box, server location and guaranteed uptime that should be in the 99.99% figure.
Monthly Price: A real cheap monthly price does not essentially mean bad so look for a mix of features within affordable price and go for a long term to reduce the cost.
Difference Between Linux And Windows Shared Hosting
1)Operating System: Linux hosting can run on Linux operating systems such as CentOS, Red Hat, and Debian while windows hosting operates on the Microsoft Windows Server operating system.
2)Security: Many people are of the view that security is a big concern with windows servers when compared with Linux servers but this is a false perception as server security depends upon the web hosting company and not on operating system.
3)Cost: Linux server hosting is preferred over windows server hosting as Linux is a free to use and open source operating system
4)Performance: Linux is more stable and able to deliver better performances as compared to Windows when it comes to handling a lot of processes at the same time.
5)Server access: If you want SSH (Secure shell) or Telnet access, meaning if you want to access files directly on the server without a transfer to/from the hard drive, then only Linux gives you the benefits. Some companies do provide this benefit on windows hosting, most offer remote desktop protocol feature or a virtual console.
6)Language Support: When it comes to language support, Windows prevail over Linux since windows support many features like ASP, .NET, FrontPage, MSSQL, Access, POP3, HTML, JavaScript, and MySQL that are limited as well as expensive with Linux.
7)File Names: If you are using a Linux server, file names such as contact.html and Contact.html are different names but on a windows server, they are the same names.
8)Ease of use: If you are not a tech-savvy individual, you are more than likely to prefer Linux over windows.
9)Downtime: Windows hosting often waste precious time of its users by indulging in more downtime when compared to Linux. Moreover, windows server takes more resources than Linux when it comes to initiating processes, this means more rebooting and time wastage.
Most web sites and users find shared hosting to be a model answer to their hosting needs. The only people that will not find many advantages from using this form of service are those that want lots of control over their own server and its contents.
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