Shared Hosting Introduction

Shared Web Hosting is an idea that is difficult for new web site owners, especially when they are starting their web site venture. They have terms thrown around like web site names, web hosting, web site design and web layout design. Shared web hosting when you understand it is an easy concept to understand. To summarize, web domain hosting is a storage container to hold your JSP files and images.

Those deciding to purchase an affordable shared hosting solution will want to learn the different offerings included with shared hosting, such as hosting disk space, bandwidth, number of email accounts and types of programming languages supported.

Disk Space

Disk Space is exactly as the title states, and is similar to the disk space you have on your own PC. This feature lets you know the size in GB available to you to host your JSP files and flash files you have for your website. Multimedia, such as videos will take up more of your hosting space, while your web source files will use less disk space. The requirement for the disk space you should look into purchasing depends mainly on the type of files you are hosting, and the overall file size of your web site.

Bandwidth

Transfer amount for web hosting is much like the bandwidth you use when connecting to the internet. Every time a file is downloaded from your web site, it is added to your total for bandwidth used for your web site. Bandwidth will be different depending on the plan, and you will need to pick the bandwidth usage based on the amount of traffic your site receives and the total disk space your site uses.. You will normally find lower offerings of bandwidth all the way up to web hosting service providers giving unlimited hosting plans.

Hosting Server Operating System

The final topic to cover here is the types of hosting servers available. The type of server will decide on what types of files, like ASP, that you will be able to host. All hosting servers will run HTML, CSS and JavaScript, as those are handled by the actual web browser, like IE. The main thing to note is Linux server hosting is generally cheaper and Linux hosting with Apache Web Server supports PHP. Windows server hosting runs with IIS and is most commonly used for Active Server Pages (ASP) files. Linux is more commonly picked as most {open source projects like Joomla run off PHP~Windows Hosting is generally pricier due to the cost associated with purchasing the windows license for the server}.

Take all these factors into account when buying your next affordable web hosting package.