Shared Hosting vs Personal Web Hosting

Points about Shared Hosting- Shared Web Hosting service is also known as Virtual Hosting Service. Shared hosting is a web hosting service where lots of websites stay on one web server linked to the Internet.

The service must include system administration as it is shared by many users.  In common shared hosting will be inappropriate for users who need extensive software development outside what the hosting provider uphold. Almost all applications planned to be on a standard web server work well with a shared web hosting service.

But on the other side, shared hosting is less expensive than other types of hosting such as dedicated server hosting. Shared hosting typically has usage limits and hosting providers should have major reliability features in place.

Shared hosting services usually offer basic web statistics support, web mail services and email, updated PHP and MySQL. It also frequently uses a web-based control panel system, such as DirectAdmin, cPanel, InterWorx or one of many other control panel products. Most of the big hosting companies use their own custom developed control panel.

In shared hosting, the provider is generally responsible for installing server software, technical support, security updates, managing servers. Most servers are based on the Linux OS. Some providers offer Microsoft Windows-based solutions. A large portion of the shared web hosting market is driven through pay per click (PPC) advertising while some are purely non-profit.

Personal web hosting – When we make a website it is composed of text, images, videos and audios. The user or the person at the other side cannot get access to your website if it is not present on the internet. So to put our website on the internet, we have to store it into web server.

What we have to do over here is that we have to first buy the storage for our web pages and then put our pages in the web server. We can now say that our website has become hosted there in the web server and people can get access to our website.

Now let us go into more depth and understand what these web servers are. Web server is hardware or in general terms a Computer where our pages get loaded. It also acts as a host. It serves the substance of your website to the internet users.

Personal hosting finds its root in the web hosting. Here a person buys a server or can take a server at rent. After buying the server he can start giving the services to the users like the storage space for hosting the website or even a person who has make ample of web pages and due to the security can also buy a server for his websites. In this way he himself becomes a host. This phenomenon is known as personal hosting.