Shared Hosting Explained

Shared web hosting, which 600Host UK provides, is an excellent, economical way to host a website. It is the perfect compromise for people who want quality service, inexpensive prices, and no headaches. There are multiple web hosting options out there, the most well-known being free hosting, managed/dedicated hosting, and colocation hosting. Each of these has its drawbacks and benefits, but all in all, shared web hosting is generally the way to go for individuals and small businesses looking for a great UK web hosting experience.

How It Works

With a shared web hosting service such as 600Host UK, there is typically a single web server or collection of servers housing multiple websites connected to the Internet. The server is partioned into sections, and each site sits in its own place, separate from all the others. Due to the large number of sites that can fit onto a server, and the relatively low cost of maintaining a single server, shared web hosting services typically give you the best value for your money. As long as you don’t need an astronomical amount of space, you can typically pay a flat fee, between £2 and £7 per month, for your UK web hosting. Since we manage the server, you don’t have to worry about keeping it updated, virus-free, and in good working order. 600Host UK will do it for you!

Benefits In Comparison To Managed, Dedicated and Colocation Hosting

With other, more expensive types of shared web hosting, you typically get an entire server all to yourself. With the first two, you don’t own the server, you just rent it out on a month-to-month basis. For colocaton hosting, you have to buy your own server and rent warehouse space. A server typically holds more data than you’d ever want on a single website, unless you’re planning on becoming the next Google, Amazon, or eBay. The cost is similarly astronomical, whether you’re renting or buying a UK web hosting server.

While you do get more access to the underlying software on a managed, dedicated, or colocation server, unless you’re extremely savvy with computers, this can end up being more of a headache than it’s worth. You’re responsible for keeping the server maintained, making sure it doesn’t break down, and making sure it doesn’t get any viruses. For the standard individual or small business owner, this is more trouble than it’s worth. Your business, your interests, don’t lie in running servers. Your business is your passion. At 600Host UK, we are passionate about providing server space for your business.

For a much cheaper price, 600Host UK will keep your data safe, secure, and well-maintained. We will work with you to help you put together the website of your dreams. Gone are the days where shared web hosting meant working with minimal software. We offer PHP, Perl, MySQL, CGI, WHM, Fantastico and CPanel, as well as many other scripts and programs to help you put together a professional site. For a lower price than any other method, we give world-class customer service to help you out with implementing any of these in your website.

Reseller Hosting at 600Host UK

If our best shared UK web hosting plan, with 6GB Web Space and 150GB Bandwidth, still doesn’t offer enough space for you, or if you’re looking to host multiple sites on your space, we also offer reseller hosting for the low price of £9.99 per month. Reseller hosting is basically the same as shared hosting, except you are allowed to host the websites of a third party.

That’s what “reseller” means - you are allowed to re-sell the space to others. The space offered is substantially larger, but you still reap the same benefits from 600Host UK. We will maintain, secure and update the servers, as well as provide the same quality customer service that you have come to expect.

Benefits In Comparison To Free Hosting

Some might say, why pay anything at all? There are so many free hosting sites out there. Consider this: time is money, quality is money, and support is money. Shared web hosting, especially the kind provided by 600Host UK, gifts yourself with time, quality, and support that free hosting services simply don’t provide.

We’ll start with time. Free web hosting services typically offer a bare-bones updater, which gives you as little control over the whole situation as humanly possible. Unless you want your site to look like an anachronism from the 90s, you’re going to be wrestling with the services a free site claims to provide. You could end up wasting hours each month figuring out how to make your free site do what you want it to do. How much money do you make at your job? How much is your time worth? It’s likely more than £3 per hour. Yet that’s all you have to pay per month with 600Host UK’s shared web hosting service. Wouldn’t you rather use those hours wrestling with the free service doing something enjoyable?

Next: quality. With most free hosting services, you have no control over the appearance of your site. Your web address is likely to be some mashup of what you want to say and what your host wants to say, like “http://www.crappyfreehost.com/yourbusiness” rather than simply http://www.yourbusiness.com. This may be fine for someone who doesn’t take their web presence seriously, but if you’re looking to have a professional website, you don’t want crappyfreehost’s name all over it. The advertisements, too, are likely to crowd out everything you have to say, since you have no control over where they go. By sacrificing quality for your site, you sacrifice dedicated traffic to your site. By sacrificing dedicated traffic, you sacrifice far more money than you end up paying for 600Host UK’s shared hosting.

Finally, support. 600Host UK is simply the best UK web hosting service out there in this respect. Free hosting services won’t give you the 24/7 customer support that we offer. You’re lucky if they respond to your queries within the month. That month is time that your site could be up, running, and making you money.

Hence, free sites don’t actually save you money. 600Host UK is here to help you make your money with your website - all we ask is a small fee each month, and we are at your service.

Jess Taylor
Sales - 600Host UK

http://www.600host.net