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Shared Hosting Packages Explained

Shared hosting is a service that hosting distributors provide so that you can put your website on the World Wide Web.

How can people spot your web site?

When you build a web site and you wish other persons to notice it, you will need to copy (or upload) it to a hosting server. If you try to make the website available on the World Wide Web by shared hosting it on your own computer, there is no way for you to keep it constantly up and running, which is why website hosting services came into existence.

How does shared hosting work?

Web hosting service providers offer you hard disk storage space for your web site on their high-power computers (web hosting servers) and guarantee constant service uptime. When somebody writes your URL (e.g. www.my-best-domain.com) in their browser's URL bar, they will be connected to the server where they can take a glimpse at the content of your website.

Web hosting types

With the development of Internet technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into existence to meet the different needs of website possessors, among them shared hosting services, VPS hosting services and dedicated server web hosting services.

Shared hosting

Shared web hosting is the most common type of hosting, and is also the easiest to commence with. It is a service where one single hosting server is divided between plenty of web hosting clients who are restricted by the CPU, bandwidth and server disk drive storage space quotas that they have been allotted. This form of website hosting is normally cheaper - you don't need to pay for the whole web hosting server upfront, as it is shared among many hosting customers, and the web hosting provider can afford to offer much cheaper prices. It is also much easier to use - the web server is pre-installed with all the required software and the hosting services provider handles all server maintenance procedures and software updates on your behalf.

The drawback of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the server's resources with other shared hosting account holders and if a given site becomes really popular it may influence (and slow down) all the other web sites on that server, but most web hosting vendors, including us at kawaldomain.com, have security systems in place that prevent that from occurring.

A description of a website hosting service

Because shared hosting is the most popular form of web hosting, the majority of web hosting firms and hosting customers simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is a great competition on the hosting market, the majority of web hosting firms try to provide reasonable prices and gifts with their hosting services. We, for example, provide different hosting plans and two billing options - monthly and yearly, based on your finances. If you select the yearly billing cycle, you will obtain a bonus - one charge-free domain registration.

Virtual private servers packages

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The Virtual private servers hosting solution is basically the middle ground between the shared hosting solution and the dedicated hosting solution. If your web site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared website hosting plan, a virtual hosting server package is an excellent solution. Virtual Private Server web hosting account owners still share the hardware resources of the physical machine with other VPS server web hosting users, but the hard disk is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own guaranteed resources and can be configured practically like a real dedicated server. The upside is that the CPU and the memory on a virtual web server are not shared. Furthermore, the virtualization technology gives you much more autonomy to configure your Virtual Private Server, but it also calls for a more advanced level of technical competence.

Dedicated Server

With the Dedicated Server solution, the customer obtains an entire web server and can utilize all its system resources. The dedicated hosting solution is the most powerful of all hosting solutions and offers many customization options - the dedicated server web hosting customers can choose the hardware and software specifications that will answer their requirements. Dedicated resources and no-holds-barred performance are two reasons why a dedicated hosting plan is an excellent solution for a heavy-traffic corporate web site, for example - you will not share the server's system resources with anyone else and will acquire root-level access. You will exercise complete control over the server, which will enable you to make any server configuration changes that you might require. The downside of the dedicated server hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical proficiency is required - unless you employ an Information Technology specialist, it will be your obligation to administer and configure the physical server. The dedicated hosting solution is also far more expensive, because the cost of the physical machine isn't shared between any other users.

A hosting advice for novices

If you are just starting to build your website and are seeking a website hosting solution to start with, the shared web hosting solution persists to be the most sensible choice. If your site grows beyond your website hosting account's resources, you can usually upgrade. With us, for instance, this is very easy and does not involve migration of your website files, since only the parameters of your account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting plan to a more advanced one at any particular time without worrying about the number of days left until the expiration date. Additionally, if you finally reach the most powerful shared website hosting plan and still need more resources (which is a good thing sometimes - it indicates that your site's popularity has increased!), there always is the possibility to move to a virtual server web hosting solution or a dedicated web hosting solution without needing to swap web hosting service providers.