Shared Hosting Description

Owning your own private website is a must these days. The entry of the World Wide Web in our daily lives suggests that, in order for someone to get seen, or to make his voice heard, one has to set up a web portal and get it online. In order to accomplish that, you virtually demand 2 elements - a web site and a hosting service. Prior to making a web site, though, it's vital to know that there are distinct varieties of website hosting services and that not all sites can work with a randomly picked shared hosting. In order to explain this better, let us begin with the major subject:

What is Hosting?

Hosting, or otherwise known as 'web hosting', is a designation that refers to the web hosting server itself, or the web host that offers the web server. A server is a computer that's connected to the World Wide Web and that's configured to use PHP, MySQL, Perl, and so on, which allows the clients to upload their files on the web hosting server and to make them visible on the World Wide Web. There are two major types of web hosting servers, on the basis of the Operating System of the server - Windows and Linux. The two Operating Systems are very different and, in most instances, not at all compatible with each other. This is the reason why, prior to choosing the appropriate solution, one should first find out what type of web server is necessary for their web page.

If you haven't developed the web site yet, then let's have a more detailed glance at the difference between the 2 varieties and at what their strong sides are.

What service should you go with - Windows or Linux?

As pointed out, there are web app frameworks, which are only consistent with a specific Operating System. For instance, JAVA scripts, .ASP pages, .NET Framework, Adobe ColdFusion are all based on Windows and will not operate on a Linux server. Thus, if you want to develop your website using any of the above, you should be searching for a Windows service. Windows, though, is not open source-based, which denotes that it provides restricted choices as far as server security and privacy are concerned. Therefore, Linux is utilized by server administrators worldwide and most hosting corporations use it on their web servers. Utilizing Linux, the administrator can configure the hosting server in a fully modifiable way, and if the hosting server is properly set up, it can provide total defense against computer hackers and malicious software. Besides, the flexibility of Linux allows for greater optimization, which contributes to better web site operation. Therefore, if you want utmost safety and server functioning, then you should make your site in such a way that it functions with a Linux-driven web hosting server. This is not a troublesome thing to accomplish, since the most famous Content Management Systems, also known as CMSs, like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, etc., are completely consistent with Linux web servers and are known all around the world for being one of the best web applications for setting up and managing web sites. Sure enough, this doesn't imply that each hosting distributor that's using Linux will have administrators who are able to appropriately administer a Linux web hosting server. Choosing the proper hosting corporation is very hard nowadays, because the majority of them do not have the capability to employ a competent, trained admin. A Linux hosting server that hasn't been properly configured can be quite dangerous to your web site and personal info. For that reason, when choosing a hosting provider, it's always recommendable to pick an established hosting corporation that's been in business for at least several years.

How to spot the proper hosting service provider for my website?

These web hosting providers are easily recognizable by the manner in which they are supplying their website hosting services. Experienced web hosting vendors offer custom-built features, diverse open-source scripts or web applications. The most practiced, though, have even their very own custom-invented website hosting Control Panels made especially for their system. A Control Panel is a web-based dashboard, through which the client administers the whole web hosting service. Smaller-sized web hosting distributors utilize ready-for-use CPs such as cPanel or DirectAdmin. In order, though, to ensure utmost safety and efficacy for their services, the leading hosting companies provide their customers with their own in-house made Control Panels developed by their own administrators. We, at 'Helios Host', don't only offer our very own custom-created CP, but have also developed a free-of-cost open-source PHP-based script package, which enables our customers to easily activate any of the aforementioned content management software apps. Specs such as these manifest that we have the capability, the resources and the experience to be entrusted with preserving your private info private and your website - reachable on the web.