How Shared Website Hosting Functions

If you are seeking a cheap hosting service, the service for you is called hosting.

What Is Hosting?

Over the years, the need for web hosting solutions has increased enormously, but customers also want low prices. The service web hosting providers have devised is called hosting. These web hosting companies accommodate lots of clients on one and the same web server, making sure that they do not intervene with each other by setting restrictions on the resources each hosting account is allowed to use. This allows for both dependable performance and lower operational costs in contrast with a dedicated server, which is utilized by just one client, and allows hosting firms to offer modest prices to their clients.

What can you accomplish with a hosting account?

The hosting accounts typically include various web site, e-mail and database management features - a Control Panel, a File Manager interface, a File Transfer Protocol client, a phpMyAdmin tool, and usually webmail - to access your mail accounts. At Merlin Internet Services, we provide all these features at low rates. We offer both monthly and annual invoicing options and also offer a cheap domain registration with each of our shared hosting plans. You can also administer everything from a single place with us - our intuitive hosting CP offers all the tools you need to manage your web site files, DNS records, register and renew more domain names, create electronic mail accounts and mailbox aliases, enable e-mail forwarding and automatically configure your electronic mail client software. How many domain names you can host in your hosting account is determined by the web hosting plan you have, but traffic and web hosting server storage space are unlimited - you are only restricted when it comes to the CPU usage quota and the amount of hosted domain names.

Backup

Aside from all the standard features, it is very important when the web hosting company makes certain that your hosting content is protected. So, the presence of periodic backups is crucial and you should make sure in advance if the hosting solutions provider of your preference is offering such. We perform everyday backups and maintains backups for the last seven days. The backup consists of your website files and databases and to have it recovered, you have to speak with our tech support department. They answer in less than an hour, so if you deleted those web site files by chance - do not come apart at the seams, hope still survives!