What Does Shared Hosting Stand for?

Running your very own personal web portal is mandatory in present-day society. The entry of the World Wide Web in our daily lives denotes that, in order for someone to get noticed, or to get his voice heard, one needs to make a site and publish it online. In order to do that, you actually need 2 things - a site and a hosting solution. Prior to creating a web portal, however, it's essential to have in mind that there are separate sorts of website hosting services and that not all sites can work with a randomly selected shared hosting. In order to explain this better, let's commence with the main issue:

What is website hosting?

Hosting, or also famous as 'web hosting', is a name that relates to the actual web server, or the hosting distributor that manages the server. A server is a computer that's connected to the World Wide Web and that's set up to use PHP, MySQL, Perl, etc., which permits the customers to upload their web files on the web server and to make them visible on the Internet. There are two principal sorts of servers, depending on the Operating System of the web hosting server - Windows and Linux. The 2 OSs are quite different and, in most instances, not at all compatible with one another. So, before choosing the proper service, one should first verify what sort of web server is needed for their site.

If you haven't established the website so far, then let us take a more comprehensive glance at the difference between the 2 types and at what their upsides are.

What service should you select - Windows or Linux?

As pointed out, there are web app frameworks, which are only consistent with a given Operating System. For example, JAVA scripts, .ASP pages, .NET Framework, Adobe ColdFusion are all Windows based and will not function on a Linux web hosting server. For that reason, if you would like to build your website using any of the above, you should be looking for a Windows solution. Windows, though, is not an open-source platform, which suggests that it provides limited possibilities as far as server security and privacy are concerned. Therefore, Linux is used by web server administrators around the world and the majority of hosting vendors use it on their servers. Using Linux, the administrator can configure the web server in a wholly modifiable manner, and if the hosting server is properly set up, it can guarantee supreme security against computer hackers and malicious software. Furthermore, the flexibility of Linux allows for greater software optimization, which results in better website performance. Therefore, if you are looking for supreme safety and web server operation, then you should construct your site in such a way that it works with a Linux-powered hosting server. This is not a hard thing to fulfill, since the most widespread Content Management Systems, also known as CMSs, like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, etc., are fully consistent with Linux servers and are famous all around the Globe for being one of the best software apps for constructing and handling sites. Certainly, this doesn't suggest that each hosting provider that's using Linux will have admins who are able to properly administer a Linux hosting server. Choosing the right hosting vendor is quite difficult now, since the majority of them do not possess the ability to appoint a competent, practiced web admin. A Linux server that hasn't been accurately configured can be extremely dangerous to your site and personal information. Hence, when choosing a hosting distributor, it's invariably advisable to opt for an established web hosting supplier that's been in business for at least a few years.

How to spot the proper host for my website?

These web hosting distributors are easily detectable by the way in which they are providing their website hosting plans. Experienced hosting vendors offer custom-built features, various free open-source scripts or frameworks. The most practiced, however, have even their very own personal custom-designed website hosting Control Panels devised particularly for their system. A website hosting Control Panel is an online-based panel, via which the customer administers the whole web hosting service. Smaller web hosting firms use pre-built web hosting Control Panels like cPanel or DirectAdmin. In order, though, to ensure maximum protection and performance for their web hosting services, the leading providers supply their customers with their very own in-house built hosting Control Panels devised by their very own administrators. We, at 'Sindibad Host', don't simply offer our very own custom-made CP, but have also created a free open-source PHP-driven script installer, which permits our clients to easily activate any of the abovementioned open-source CMSs. Features like these confirm that we have the capability, the means and the experience to be entrusted with keeping your personal information confidential and your site - available on the web.