How Does Shared Hosting Work?

If you are searching for an affordable web hosting solution, the solution for you is called shared hosting.

What Is Shared Hosting?

Over the years, the demand for website hosting solutions has expanded hugely, but customers also want reasonable prices. The solution hosting service providers have devised is called shared hosting. These web hosting corporations accommodate many customers on one and the same web server, making sure that they do not intervene with each other by placing limitations on the server resources each shared web hosting account is permitted to avail of. This allows for both dependable performance and lower maintenance costs as compared to a dedicated server, which is utilized by just a single person, and permits web hosting companies to offer reasonable prices to their clients.

What can you accomplish with a shared hosting account?

The shared hosting accounts usually offer various website, mail and database administration features - a hosting CP, a File Manager interface, a File Transfer Protocol software client, a phpMyAdmin interface, and usually webmail - to check your e-mailboxes. At Layer3.host, we provide all these tools at low prices. We have both monthly and annual billing options and also provide a cheap domain registration with each of our shared hosting plans. You can also manage everything from one single location with us - our easy-to-use hosting CP offers all the features you need to handle your website files, Domain Name System resource records, register and renew more domains, create mail accounts and mail aliases, activate e-mail forwarding and auto-configure your mail client. How many domain names you can accommodate in your shared hosting account depends on the website hosting package you have, but monthly bandwidth and web server storage space are unmetered - you are only restricted in terms of the central processing unit usage and the number of hosted domains.

Backup

Beside all the common features, it is extremely essential when the website hosting solutions provider guarantees that your data is invulnerable. Therefore, the presence of periodic backups is obligatory and you should confirm in advance if the hosting corporation of your choosing is offering such. We perform everyday backups and retains backups for the past one week. The backup encompasses your website files and databases and to have it repaired, you need to get in touch with our technical support team. They get back to you in less than an hour, so if you erased those web files haphazardly - do not be alarmed, there's hope yet!