Web Hosting Overview
cPanel® Shared Hosting From Equentity LLC
Use the following menu to select the Web hosting information you need. If you're new to Web Hosting, you may want to read our brief introduction to Shared Web Hosting below.
Shared Hosting - What It Is and How It Works
= 1 Web siteIn order for a Web site to be seen, it must be hosted on one or more servers. Think of a server in terms of a city. If you purchase or build a house (your Web site), you must also find a suitable plot of land on which to place it (server space).
Servers are assigned numbers, called IP addresses, which are used to locate your Web site. So, if your Web site is a house, the IP address would be the street address. Your Web site domain name would be akin to referring to your house as the Smith residence. We (EquentityHost) own the city, and we sell plots of land (hosting space) on which to build your house (Web site).
Many Web hosts oversell their server resources. When a host oversells, it is relying on its customers not to use all their allocated resources. Imagine if you were sold a plot of land, only to discover your neighbor was building his garage on a portion of your land. Maybe there's enough land to go around, but it becomes the responsibility of the host to manage the allocation of overpromised resources carefully, and this introduces an inherent element of risk into the hosting equation.
EquentityHost does not oversell. The activities of one client will never compromise the ability for another client to access his or her disk space or allocated data transfer resources.
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