What is Shared Hosting?

Owning your own personal site is vital these days. The fusion of the World Wide Web in our everyday lives denotes that, in order for someone to be noticed, or to get his idea noticed, one has to design an online portal and publish it online. In order to achieve that, you actually need two elements - a site and a hosting service. Prior to establishing a web page, however, it's vital to comprehend that there are distinct types of hosting services and that not all web sites can perform with a randomly picked shared hosting. In order to clarify this better, let us begin with the primary question:

What is Hosting?

Hosting, or also popular as 'web hosting', is a name that refers to the actual server, or the hosting supplier that owns the web server. A web server is a computer that's connected to the World Wide Web and that's set up to work with PHP, MySQL, Perl, and so on, which allows the customers to upload their web site files on the hosting server and to have them published on the World Wide Web. There are two major kinds of servers, depending on the Operating System of the hosting server - Windows and Linux. The two OSs are very different and, in the majority of cases, not at all consistent with one another. Thus, before choosing the suitable service, one should first examine what type of server is required for their web portal.

If you haven't made the site yet, then let's take a more exhaustive glance at the distinction between the 2 types and at what their benefits are.

What platform should you pick - Windows or Linux?

As pointed out, there are software applications, which are solely consistent with a certain Operating System. For instance, JAVA scripts, .ASP pages, .NET Framework, Adobe ColdFusion are all based on Windows and will not run on a Linux hosting server. Therefore, if you plan to create your website utilizing any of the above, you should be searching for a Windows platform. Windows, though, is not open-source software, which indicates that it provides limited options when it comes to server security and privacy. Thus, Linux is preferred by server administrators around the Globe and most hosting service providers utilize it on their web hosting servers. Using Linux, the admin can set up the web hosting server in a totally modifiable way, and if the hosting server is appropriately set up, it can provide supreme protection against computer hackers and malware. In addition, the customizability of Linux permits for greater optimization, which leads to better website functioning. So, if you want utmost safety and server functioning, then you should develop your web site in such a manner that it works with a Linux-driven web server. This is not a problematic thing to achieve, as the most widespread Content Management Systems, also popular as CMSs, like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, and so on, are fully compatible with Linux servers and are known all around the world for being one of the best web apps for making and handling sites. Sure enough, this doesn't imply that every host that's using Linux will have administrators who are capable to properly handle a Linux web hosting server. Selecting the correct host is quite tough nowadays, since the majority of them do not possess the capability to hire a skilled, trained web administrator. A Linux hosting server that hasn't been appropriately configured can be highly risky to your site and personal info. Thus, when picking a web hosting vendor, it's invariably recommendable to settle on a bigger web hosting company that's been in business for at least a couple of years.

How to recognize the appropriate web hosting company for my website?

These web hosting service providers are easily recognizable by the manner in which they are supplying their web hosting plans. Established web hosts provide custom-developed features, diverse PHP-powered scripts or web application frameworks. The most experienced, however, possess even their very own custom-made website hosting Control Panels designed particularly for their platform. A CP is an online-based user interface, via which the user handles the whole web hosting service. Smaller-sized web hosting firms utilize pre-built website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel or DirectAdmin. In order, however, to ensure ultimate security and effectiveness for their website hosting services, the biggest web hosting companies furnish their clients with their very own personal custom-developed web hosting CPs created by their very own admins. We, at 'WebPage 4 All', don't simply provide our own custom-designed Control Panel, but have also set up a free-of-charge script installation tool, which permits our customers to effortlessly activate any of the aforesaid open-source Content Management System applications. Features such as these prove that we have the capability, the means and the necessary experience to be entrusted with maintaining your private details confidential and your web site - visible on the Internet.