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Shared hosting, Web Hosting

What is Shared Hosting?

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Owning a website became one of the major needs for any business. after building your website you will need a suitable web hosting plan to make your website online for anyone who wants to reach it.  there are different web hosting types but shared hosting is one of the most popular used options for web hosting. It is usually used by those who are building their first website.  In this article, we’ll dive into details and explain how it works, and we’ll also discuss its pros and cons to help you decide which is the best choice for you. Let’s dive in!   What is shared hosting and how does it work?  it is a type of web hosting where a server hosts multiple websites. Many users use the resources on a single server, and this keeps the cost low. Each user gets a part of the server where they can host their websites’ files. Imagine this kind of hosting like sharing an apartment with a roommate, so you’ll share the same server resources, like CPU cores, disk space, and memory with other users who are on the same server. It is the cheapest way to host your website online. But, Unfortunately, your website might get slow with a high traffic load, and this happens because of the limited resources.   The pros and cons:  We’re going to discuss the pros and cons compared with the other hosting options. Shared hosting Pros: Affordable: It is the most affordable and cheapest hosting option. For example, shared hosting monthly costs could be as little as 2.99$ – 7.99$, and this is because you share the server resources with the other websites on the same server. 24/7 Support: Most companies including us offer 24/7 support on the shared plans, so you can rest and leave the heavy lifting for us. Easy setup: It is the most beginners friendly hosting option, so you don’t have to have any technical knowledge. Smooth Upgrade: your traffic increased? Most hosting companies including us have multiple hosting plans, so you can easily upgrade your hosting plan when you need to, without any complicated steps. Easy to manage: It usually comes with cPanel, making it easy for you to manage your website.   [themify_layout_part slug=”web-hosting-discount”] Shared hosting Cons: Shared resources: As we’ve explained, in this hosting plan you share the server resources with other websites, and it’s not a big deal when it comes to small websites, but it is still a negative point when it comes to the medium to large websites. A bit slower: The loading time can be a lot slower than the VPS or Dedicated servers environments, and there’s a chance that your website’s performance can be affected by other websites on the same server. Less Customizable: you will not have the full customization option as you have a dedicated server, so you will not be able to do advanced customizations on the server. A little risky: Because several websites are sharing the same server, so it can be infected with malware or be the victim of a hacking attack, which can affect all other websites on the server. So you have to choose a hosting company with a firewall and malware scan. For example, we bundle our plans SiteLock light on all of our shared hosting plans.   Alternatives to Shared Hosting  There are many other options, such as VPS or Dedicated Servers.  But they are more expensive and professional options than shared hosting plans, but they will provide you with much higher performance and customization options.  So which is the best option for you?  Let’s discuss when shared hosting plans will be the best choice for you and when it is not.   Is shared hosting good? Let’s do a fast review for pros: Affordable 24/7 Support Easy setup Smooth Upgrade Easy to manage  After we know the pros and cons of shared hosting, we can say that it is perfect for beginners and small businesses; so if you just started with your first website, you should go with shared hosting.   Also, it is perfect for low-traffic websites such as portfolios’ websites, personal blogs, personal websites, and small business websites. Why shared hosting is bad? Let’s review the cons: Shared resources A bit slower Less Customizable A little risky  As we said above, shared hosting is mainly for beginners or small and low-traffic websites.  So if you’re launching a big website that will have a high number of product photos with high resolution and high traffic, then shared hosting will not be good for you.  Here shines the VPS hosting, with very much higher loading capacity and full control to help you customize your server as you need to level up the performance.   Final Thoughts  After you know about the pros and cons, and when it will be the perfect option for you, and when it won’t. We recommend if you are starting your website or just even thinking, to start with a good shared plan, once your website starts to grow and attract more traffic volumes, then you should upgrade to a VPS hosting plan. If you are new to the hosting world, you can read and learn more about VPS hosting; also, you can start picking up your shared hosting plan and start your online presence today!

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VPS, Web Hosting

What is VPS Hosting?

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When your website’s data and traffic grow, you’ll need to move from shared hosting plans to something bigger that offers more features and resources. In this case, Virtual Private Servers (VPS) will be the best choice for you. Let’s explain what VPS is and why you should choose it in more detail:   What is VPS hosting? First of all, the definition of VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. VPS hosting virtually mimics a dedicated server environment in a shared server. By the way, VPS is one of the most popular hosting types because it provides you with dedicated resources and it costs lower than a dedicated server. But provides you with better reliability and performance than shared hosting. VPS is often a great option for small to medium companies that are growing up, so they need a secure, more affordable, and high-performance hosting option.   A quick comparison between Shared Hosting, VPS, and Dedicated Servers   Shared Hosting: As we already know, shared hosting is about sharing a single physical server between multiple users and websites that share all of the server resources and can affect each other. VPS Hosting: VPS as we explained above, is a virtual private server. However, the difference between it and shared hosting is that with VPS hosting is that we’re still sharing one physical server. Still, we have dedicated resources and custom configurations with our virtual server and unlimited scalability.  Dedicated Hosting: A dedicated server simply means that we have a full server/computer with all of its resources, here you have total control; for example, we can upgrade the server ram or the hard drive, also in this case, we have full control and responsibility of our server security   How VPS works? VPS hosting emulates a dedicated server while using a single physical server with other users, VPS hosting uses a parent server to host many servers which are separated from each other virtually. We can achieve that by using a software called a hypervisor, which makes hosting companies capable of implementing a virtual layer on top of the original operating system (OS) to divide the virtual servers. The segmentation between the virtual servers’ walls enables users to install their operating system, their software and create a private server, separated from other users on the operating system level.   Types of VPS Hosting There are different types of VPS hosting which you might have seen or heard about, which are the un-managed VPS and the managed VPS. Let’s talk about each one of them in more detail. Unmanaged VPS: At first glance, we can understand from the name that with the unmanaged VPS, the web hosting provider offers you a VPS without many services, let’s talk about the details. When you choose the unmanaged VPS, here the web hosting provider installs the operating system for you on the VPS, but you as a site owner takes over managing the other aspects of the server such as: Installing your preferred control panel and other various software. Taking care of your server security, installing security patches, and fixing any other bugs or error messages. If there any type of failure, you’re the person who takes control and figuring out a solution to this problem Maintaining and configuring any software updates and/or upgrades for your server. Being responsible for setting up backups. This plan is recommended when you have technical experience. Managed VPS: With the managed VPS, the hosting provider IT team takes care of your server and makes sure that your VPS server is up and running correctly. this is what you would expect from your web hosting provider if you went with the managed VPS choice: Server setup: Your hosting provider will do the initial installation for your server including installing your control panel and operating system with any server software. Server updates: Your hosting provider will update your operating system for you to make sure that your server is up and running smoothly. Security patches: Your hosting provider will set up all of the necessary security patches for your operating system and your core server software. Automated backups: Your hosting provider will set up automatic backup services for you, so you can retrieve any copy of your website if anything has gone wrong with you. Monitoring: Your hosting provider will monitor your server for any early signs of hardware, software failure, and any malicious attacks. After we have completely understood what the VPS is, how it works, and its types. It’s time to know what are the benefits of the VPS, so let’s dive in:   What are the benefits of going with the VPS Hosting option? As you might know, the main strength points of having a VPS are that they give you more freedom on having your virtual machine which can handle more traffic volume with more performance than the shared hosting, but let’s go into detail for almost all of the benefits of the VPS Hosting: High performance: The VPS hosting will have its own allocated bandwidth and storage which isn’t shared with any users. Value: VPS Hosting is more affordable than a dedicated server, but it delivers you a lot more value than shared hosting. Control: You have root access, so you have full control of your server. Customization: You can customize as you want with your VPS, this gives you the ability to get only the features that you need, which starts from choosing your operating system and ends with every software on your server. Security: On the physical server, all of the VPS environments are isolated and separated from each other, which gives you more security than shared hosting. Scalability: With VPS, you can purchase the resources that suit you and your needs, and if you need more in the future, you can easily upgrade your resources, so VPS is highly scalable.   When I should switch to VPS Hosting? After knowing more about VPS Hosting and the difference between it and the other options, I guess you

Web Design

How to Start a Blog? – The Right Way

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More than 38% of all websites are powered by WordPress, WordPress powers more than 76 million blogs, and 17 new posts are published on WordPress-based websites every second! Despite the fact that WordPress is powering all types of websites both business and personal websites, it was made for blogging in the first place.  WordPress is free to use. It has all the essential tools you need to set up and manage a blog without any design and development experience needed. You just need to go through 7 simple steps to put your blog online! Register a Domain Name Purchase a Web Hosting Plan Install WordPress Install a Theme for Your Blog Customize Your Blog with Widgets and Plugins Create Content Optimize Your Blog For Search Engines (SEO)   If you are asking how to start a blog these are all the elements you need. Let’s go through them one by one    1. Register a Domain Name: To start a blog with WordPress, you’ll need a domain name, you can register a new domain name through a domain registrar or your web host. Go to one of them to find out if your chosen domain name is available, if so, you can purchase it. You can read more on how to choose the right domain name for your blog. This guide will help you pick the best domain name.   2. Purchase a Web Hosting Plan The second step is to purchase a web hosting plan from a reliable hosting provider. Choosing a good hosting provider will affect your website performance so you need to choose a reliable hosting provider. At first, you just need to go with a good shared hosting plan. Most hosting providers offer a fast WordPress installation feature through something called cPanel, which is software that makes you able to manage your web hosting environment.   3. Install WordPress Once you purchased your web hosting plan, go to your cPanel dashboard, and you’ll find a section called “One-Click App Installer” you can install WordPress on your domain from there. Once WordPress is installed, you’ll be ready to start blogging. But it’ll be helpful to customize your website appearance and plan the basic content of your blog, so let’s get started doing so.   4. Install a Theme for Your Blog WordPress comes with an admin dashboard with all the tools you need to set up and manage your website. You can find your dashboard by going to “www.yourDomain.com/wp-admin”. From your dashboard, you can choose a theme for your blog. There are thousands of free and paid themes available from the WordPress theme directory. Many WordPress themes are designed for general usage, but some are made and optimized for specific purposes like blogging, choose one of them by searching for themes with the features you want by selecting the “filter” option on the WordPress theme directory page.   5. Customize Your Blog with Widgets and Plugins WordPress comes with all the essential features a user needs to set up a basic website, but you can add special features with something called “Plugins” – which are small bits of code that add more functionality to your website. You’ll find thousands of free and paid plugins in the WordPress plugins directory. Blog-related plugins can include tools for optimizing your website for search engines, social sharing, managing email lists, tracking analysis, cross-posting to other websites, and more.   6. Create Content WordPress admin dashboard includes tools for creating pages and posts. You need to create your essential website pages like the “About” page, “policies” pages, and so on. And you need to plan and write your post content to enrich your blog with creative, useful content. Whenever you finish writing a post, you just need to click “Publish” to make your post live on your blog, you also can save it as a draft and edit it later or you can use WordPress’s built-in scheduling posts tool to automatically post your posts in specific date and time.   7. Optimize Your Blog For Search Engines (SEO) You need to optimize your blog for search engines and this is a big topic but let’s take a look at the major steps you need to optimize your blog. Install the best SEO plugin – Yoast SEO Install Google Analytics Yoast SEO is a plugin that helps you to optimize your website for search engines and drive more organic traffic to your website through search engine pages. Google Analytics allows you to track your users’ journey on your website, get to know them more, and get to know the content they like more, so you can optimize your blog more and more.  If you feel like you need to go further on this topic, here are WordPress SEO basics for beginners.   Congratulations! You Have a Live Blog… As you see, it is very easy to start your blog with WordPress, and by continuing to publish content regularly and optimizing your website for search engines, you’ll finally start making a larger and larger audience with time and effort. We hope you enjoyed this guide and made a beautiful blog. Happy Blogging!

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