What Precisely is Shared Hosting?

Possessing your very own personal site is obligatory in today's society. The introduction of the World Wide Web in our daily lives means that, in order for someone to be seen, or to make his opinion heard, one has to develop a website and post it online. In order to fulfill that, you virtually need two things - a web site and a hosting service. Prior to designing a web portal, though, it's crucial to know that there are distinct varieties of hosting services and that not all sites can work with a randomly picked shared hosting. In order to illustrate this better, let us start with the principal issue:

What is website hosting?

Hosting, or also known as 'web hosting', is a term that relates to the actual web server, or the web hosting service provider that manages the hosting server. A server is a computer that's connected to the World Wide Web and that's set up to support PHP, MySQL, Perl, etc., which enables the clients to upload their files on the web server and to publish them on the web. There are two principal types of web hosting servers, based on the OS of the hosting server - Windows and Linux. The 2 Operating Systems are quite dissimilar and, in most cases, not at all consistent with one another. That is the reason why, prior to selecting the relevant service, one should first discover what kind of web server is required for their web site.

If you haven't set up the site yet, then let's have a more exhaustive glance at the distinction between the 2 varieties and at what their advantages are.

What solution should you pick - Windows or Linux?

As mentioned, there are apps, which are solely consistent with a specific Operating System. For instance, JAVA scripts, .ASP pages, .NET Framework, Adobe ColdFusion are all based on Windows and will not perform on a Linux hosting server. Therefore, if you would like to set up your website using any of the above, you should be searching for a Windows solution. Windows, however, is not an open-source platform, which implies that it provides restricted options in terms of server safety and privacy. So, Linux is favored by web server admins around the Globe and the majority of hosting service providers use it on their hosting servers. Using Linux, the admin can configure the hosting server in a thoroughly modifiable way, and if the server is correctly configured, it can ensure full defense against computer hackers and malware. Plus, the customizability of Linux permits for greater software optimization, which leads to better web site operation. Hence, if you want supreme security and server operation, then you should build your web site in such a manner that it functions with a Linux-based web server. This is not troublesome to accomplish, since the most widely used Content Management Systems, also popular as CMSs, such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, etc., are fully consistent with Linux web servers and are famous all over the world for being one of the best software applications for making and handling sites. By all means, this doesn't mean that each hosting vendor that's utilizing Linux will have administrators who are capable to appropriately run a Linux web server. Choosing the right company is quite problematic now, as the majority of them do not possess the capability to employ a skilful, trained web admin. A Linux web hosting server that hasn't been properly set up can be quite risky to your website and personal information. For that reason, when choosing a web hosting vendor, it's always advisable to go with a well-established provider that's been in business for at least a few years.

How to spot the proper web hosting corporation for my website?

These web hosting firms are easily recognizable by the manner in which they are providing their hosting packages. Experienced hosting vendors provide custom-developed features, diverse free open-source scripts or web application frameworks. The most experienced, though, have even their own personal custom-made web hosting Control Panels built particularly for their platform. A web hosting Control Panel is an online-based graphical interface, through which the client handles the entire web hosting account. Smaller-sized web hosting vendors avail of ready-for-use Control Panels such as cPanel or DirectAdmin. In order, however, to guarantee utmost security and performance for their website hosting services, the biggest companies furnish their customers with their very own in-house built website hosting CPs made by their own admins. We, at 'ByoHosting', don't simply provide our own personal custom-made CP, but have also developed a free-of-charge PHP-powered script installation tool, which allows our clients to easily activate any of the abovementioned web content management apps. Specs such as these testify that we have the ability, the means and the experience to be entrusted with maintaining your personal information confidential and your web site - available on the web.