Thursday, July 17, 2008

Shared Web Hosting

By Ray Lam

Online systems are booming, and web connectivity and marketing are prevalent. Many individuals, firms, organizations and web users are clamoring to have their very own websites. When the need to store information, videos, images and content outputs accessible via the Net becomes too important to ignore, web hosting is the ultimate solution.

Before you can be set up a website, you need a web host. Web hosts are firms that supply space in their servers for clients who wish to maintain a data center. They can designate hub spaces and connectivity options to the Internet for other servers they do not own, so they can be sited. Shared web hosting service is also known as virtual hosting service, which allows merging several websites in one server through the same or varied Internet protocols.

A shared web hosting control panel may come under different names such as cPanel, Plesk, H-sphere or some other name. Even if you know very little about web design and upkeep, you can do some cool stuff through control panels with a mere click of the mouse. For example, this site uses Wordpress as the way I set up this site. How did I do this? I simply went into my control panel and (through Fantastico) uploaded Wordpress right to my server with one click of the mouse. No mess or hassles. No technical know-how was needed. See the advantage of using shared web hosting with a control panel?

What makes shared web site hosting so attractive is that it is very inexpensive. Usually there is just a low monthly fee and more often than not shared web hosting offers more than just a basic web hosting service.

If all you need is a website with low traffic requirements, shared web hosting can be a sensible choice. Shared web hosting ranks is the most economical option since there are a lot of clients who share the entire amount of the server's operation and maintenance cost. There are numerous shared web-hosting providers in the United States, ranging from small design companies, car parts stores and multimillion-dollar firms.

In general, shared hosting is cheaper than other hosting types since the operating cost of one server is equally divided among a number of clients. In most cases, shared hosting fees are as little as $2 in a month. But you have to search for web hosting companies that meet your requirements.

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