Shared Web Hosting Explained

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

What Is Shared Hosting?

Over the years, the need for website hosting services has grown vastly, but people also prefer affordable prices. The service web hosts have conceived is called shared hosting. These web hosts host many clients on the same web server, making sure that they do not interfere with each other by imposing limits on the server resources each shared hosting account is permitted to make use of. This allows for both good performance and lower running costs in contrast with a dedicated server, which is used by just one single customer, and enables web hosting service providers to offer attractive prices to their customers.

What can you do with a shared hosting account?

The shared hosting accounts typically come with diverse website, email and database management tools - a web hosting Control Panel, a File Manager interface, an FTP software client, a phpMyAdmin tool, and typically webmail - to check your e-mail box accounts. At Hosting South Africa, we provide all these features at reasonable rates. We have both monthly and annual invoicing options and also provide a cheap domain registration with each of our shared hosting plans. You can also administer everything from a single location with us - our intuitive hosting CP has all the functionalities you need to handle your web files, Domain Name System resource records, register and renew more domain names, create email accounts and e-mail aliases, enable e-mail forwarding and automatically configure your mail software client. How many domain names you can host in your shared account is dependent on the website hosting plan you have, but web traffic and disk drive space are unlimited - you are only limited in terms of the central processing unit allowance and the number of hosted domains.

Backup

Aside from all the usual tools, it is very important when the web hosting plans provider makes sure that your hosting content is invulnerable. This is why the presence of day-to-day backups is essential and you should confirm in advance if the hosting vendor of your preference is offering such. We conduct daily backups and retains backups for the past seven days. The backup includes your web site files and databases and to have it repaired, you need to get in touch with our tech support department. They get back to you in less than one hour, so if you erased those web files haphazardly - do not be afraid, hope is the last to die!