What is Shared Hosting?
If you have decided to make your own site, but are not very sure about what a web site is and are not aware of the expression "shared hosting", this article is dedicated to clarifying these notions in simple language.
What exactly is a web site?
A web site is a collection of webpages gathered in a systematic fashion. It has a special web address, also known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A website may be comprised of only one single webpage and sometimes may even have as many as one thousand pages.
What is a web hosting server?
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A web hosting server enables you to upload your site onto it. In some instances, there might be even 1000's of web sites on a single web hosting server. The hosting server essentially is a computer with special hardware, which is physically located in a datacenter with special cooling systems, whose mission is to safeguard the seamless functioning of the web hosting server and all the web sites located on it.
To summarize, a web hosting server will be truly a launch pad when the time arrives for you to launch your web site. It could be any type of website - a business web site having lots of pages, or a site, which includes only a couple of pages and which you have created simply for your mates and family members.
You've decided what your website will be, now what?
As soon as you have made a decision about what type of site you want to develop, the next step is to find out what kind of web hosting service you must choose for your Internet adventure. Basically, there are two sorts of website hosting services - free hosting services and professional paid website hosting services. The charge-free web hosting solution is typically utilized by customers that do not have a business-related website.
Advantages and disadvantages of the cost-free website hosting solution
You will not get many features with a free web hosting package. Features such as web traffic, memory and hard disk storage space are restricted and inadequate for a complex e-commerce site or a corporate web site, or even for a web site with a lot of graphics. Furthermore, there are a lot of commercials inserted on your web site by the hosting plans provider. These ads occupy plenty of space on your site and are pretty irritating.
Shared hosting
The paid shared hosting services tend to be more stable and include lots of sophisticated features beside the high-quality web hosting server that will host your site and its data. Nevertheless, it is important to find out which features your website needs prior to buying your web hosting package. You should not rush and wind up spending cash on something that your website does not demand.
Select your web hosting distributor
It is not hard to find a web host. You need to just carry out an online search in order to find a web hosting distributor that fulfills your website's requirements. Before you take your actual choice, have a glance at the parameters of the packages offered by the hosting service providers that have seized your attention. We, for instance, are among the top-notch web hosting distributors on the marketplace at the moment. The wide assortment of hosting services and our prices are what renders us an alluring option. In spite of that, you must ascertain what kind of hosting service you need and whether the price matches your budget. What is more, you must always remember to examine the web hosting vendor's ToS prior to registering to verify that your site is not violating them.
Opening a hosting account
As soon as you have found out what features are best for your web site, the next move is to sign up for an account with the web hosting packages provider of your preference. You will acquire all the necessary tools for managing your files and databases. With us, for example, you will receive a hosting Control Panel, which contains domain, web site, database and email box account administration areas. You log into the Control Panel using a unique username and password, which grants you secure access to the portion of the server where your web site will be hosted.
Uploading your site
You can either upload your site via an FTP client application or, as is with most hosting vendors, via an online tool that is included within the web hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is quite easy to use and offers features similar to those observed in Windows Explorer, which makes file management very easy. We offer also a site builder and a PHP-powered script installation tool, which you can use to set up your site if you have no programming expertise and are taking your first steps in web design. The online web site building tool, called SiteStudio, will also spare you the time and effort of creating a web site on your computer and then uploading it via an FTP client or the File Manager interface.