Shared Hosting Description
Shared hosting is a service that hosting distributors offer so that you can upload your site online.
How can people reach your website?
When you create a website and you wish other persons to visit it, you will need to publish (or upload) it to a web hosting server. If you attempt to make the site accessible online by shared hosting it on your own PC, there is no way for you to keep it constantly up and running, which is why website hosting services exist.
How does shared hosting work?
Web hosting suppliers provide you with hard disk storage space for your web site on their powerful computers (web servers) and ensure uninterrupted service uptime. When somebody writes your web address (for example www.my-best-domain.com) in their web browser's address bar, they will be connected to the web server where they can take a glance at the content of your web site.
Hosting varieties
With the development of Internet technologies, different types of web hosting services have come into existence to meet the various needs of web site owners, including shared hosting services, virtual server hosting services and dedicated web hosting services.
Shared hosting
Shared website hosting is the most common form of hosting, and is also the easiest to begin with. It is a service where one single web server is divided among many shared web hosting account owners who are restricted by the CPU, bandwidth and hosting server storage space quotas that they have been allotted. This type of website hosting is normally less expensive - you don't need to pay for the entire web hosting server upfront, since it is shared between lots of hosting users, and the hosting solutions provider can afford to offer much more modest prices. It is also much easier to use - the server is pre-installed with all the required software and the web hosting company takes care of all server maintenance tasks and software updates for you.
The drawback of the shared web hosting solution is that you share the web hosting server's system resources with other hosting clients and if one web site becomes really busy it may affect (and slow down) the rest of the sites on that web hosting server, but most hosting providers, including us at ReactR, have protection platforms at work that obstruct that from taking place.
A description of a hosting service
Since shared web hosting is the most popular type of web hosting, most web hosts and hosting customers simply refer to it as web hosting or website hosting. As there is an immense competition on the hosting marketplace, the majority of hosting vendors try to offer affordable prices and bonuses with their web hosting services. We, for example, offer different web hosting packages and two invoicing options - monthly and yearly, based on your resources. If you select the yearly invoicing cycle, you will receive a gift - one charge-free domain registration.
VPS hosting
VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server. The VPS hosting solution is essentially the middle ground between the shared web hosting solution and the dedicated server hosting solution. If your site grows beyond the resources offered by your shared web hosting package, a virtual private web hosting server package is an appropriate choice. virtual server hosting account owners still share the hardware resources of the physical server with other private virtual web server hosting users, but the server is split up using special virtualization software so that each partition has its own dedicated resources and can be configured practically like a full-fledged dedicated hosting server. The advantage is that the CPU and the RAM memory on a virtual private web server are not shared. Also, the virtualization technology gives you much more freedom to configure your VPS, but it also presupposes a higher level of technical knowledge.
Dedicated Hosting
With the Dedicated Hosting solution, the customer obtains an entire physical server and can use all its resources. The dedicated web server hosting solution is the most flexible of all web hosting solutions and offers a myriad of configuration options - the dedicated web server hosting customers can choose the hardware and software specifications that will fulfill their requirements. Dedicated resources and guaranteed performance are two reasons why a dedicated hosting web server is a perfect solution for a large-scale business web portal, for example - you will not share the hosting server's resources with anyone else and will have full server root privileges. You will exert complete control over the physical machine, which will enable you to implement any configuration modifications that you might need. The disadvantage of the dedicated server hosting solution is that a more advanced degree of technical proficiency is needed - unless you employ an IT professional, it will be your duty to administer and configure the server. The dedicated web server hosting solution also costs much more, since the cost of the dedicated server isn't shared among any other customers.
A website hosting tip for novices
If you are just beginning to build your web site and are searching for a web hosting solution to start out with, the shared website hosting solution remains the most reasonable choice. If your website grows beyond your shared website hosting account's resources, you can normally upgrade. With us, for example, this is extremely easy and does not necessitate migration of your files, because only the features of your website hosting account change. You can also upgrade your web hosting package to a more advanced one at any particular moment without worrying about the remaining time until the expiration date. What is more, if you eventually reach the most advanced shared website hosting package and still need more resources (which is great sometimes - it indicates that your site's popularity has grown!), there always is the possibility to move to a VPS server hosting solution or a dedicated hosting solution without needing to change web hosting providers.
| Basic | Delux | Ultra | Entry |
| Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage |
| Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth |
| 5 websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | 1 website hosted |
| 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial |
| $8.75 / month | $17.50 / month | $25.00 / month | $6.92 / month |