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A shared hosting plan provides the user with space on the host’s shared server for a monthly fee. Users are responsible for setting up and running their own sites, and a single account can include multiple sites, as long as the total package doesn’t exceed the allotted space on the server.

The hosting provider is responsible for providing customer support, maintaining server hardware and software, including security protocols and updates, and safeguarding against crashes and downtime. These provisions are set out in the hosting contract, which establishes what users can and can’t do with respect to their sites, and under what circumstances the host can suspend or terminate a user’s account.

Shared hosting isn’t for everyone, but this kind of inexpensive hosting can help new businesses, entrepreneurs and independent creatives get a web presence quickly – even if funding is tight.

To get your website online, you will need to upload your files (i.e. your website) to your hosted web space on our servers. To backup your site files you will need to download your files from our web servers.

How to upload a file through File Manager

  1. Login into your cPanel. Click the File Manager button in the Files section.
  2. Navigate to the directory you want to upload a file to and click the Upload link at the top of the File Manager. This will open an upload page in a new tab.
  3. Drag and drop your file into the window, or click Select File to browse your computer for the file you want to upload. Check the available box if you want to overwrite files that already exist in the upload folder.
  4. Your file will then upload. You will see a “100%” message when the upload completes.
  5. Click the Go Back link to return to the File Manager.
  6. Refresh your File Manager by clicking the Reload link at the top middle of the File Manager. You should then see the file listed in the File Manager now.

How to upload With FTP using FileZilla

  1. Download Filezilla, visit  http://filezilla-project.org/ and click the “Download FileZilla Client” link for FileZilla Client. Once you complete the straight forward download and installation process, open the application.
  2. Connect to your server with FileZilla.
  3. Navigate your files in the third window on the left underneath the “Local Site:” box where its says”Filename”.
  4. The Window to the right of it is the “Remote Site” directory. Navigate to the folder where you want to upload the file/folder to in the “Filename” Window underneath the “Remote Site” window. Drag the file you want to upload to the server from the “Local Site” to the “Remote Site”.
  5. The File will upload and you will see the file in the list of files in the directory where you dragged the file to.

There are two things that could possibly happen after purchasing a web hosting service from us:

  1. If you paid via Paypal, your web hosting account will be provisioned automatically in a few minutes. You will receive a welcome email with the details on how to access your account. If you also purchased a domain name, the domain name will be activated within 24 hours. While waiting for it. You can start using our service via a temporary domain/access provided on that email. If you are a beginner, we suggest you view this video to get yourself familiarized with our control panel.
  2. If you paid via bank deposit as instructed on the invoice, you need to send to info@hostime.al the scanned copy of your validated deposit slip. Once we receive the proof of payment, your account will be provisioned within 24 hours together with your domain name. A welcome email will be sent once the account is ready containing all the details of your account.

If you have registered a new domain, expect an ICANN verification email. The verification process needs to be followed otherwise failure to verify your domain ownership will result in suspension of your account.

For additional help, you can search our knowledge base or send us a ticket for support.

When you purchase our shared hosting you will get c-panel and installatron for one click installation of software.

To see the price of shared hosting you can go to https://hostime.al/shared 

or you can buy the shared plan in client area https://hostime.al/client/index.php?rp=/store/shared-hosting-c-panel-tiranaalbania 

You must select the hosting plan and in second page you must check the option Own Domain 

There are many web hosting options available nowadays: free web hosting, shared hosting, dedicated server, and the list goes on. All these options serve the same purpose, which is hosting your content so that it can be accessed and viewed by people on the Internet. The major difference is how each is structured as well as the benefits they offer.

Let's have a closer look at each of them.

SHARED HOSTING

As the name implies, shared hosting is an environment where you are sharing space on a web server with other users. As clients are sharing the cost of the server, this is the most affordable and popular solution for personal users and small businesses as companies to set up blog, e-commerce and other advanced applications. However, when hosting on a shared server, you are exposed to all the activities of your neighbors. If someone makes a huge scripting error, the entire server can suffer. If someone experiences a sudden burst in traffic, your site might run slower. If the server goes down, so does your website and ultimately, your business.

DEDICATED HOSTING

When your business takes off and requires more than the typical sharing server resources, it's time to move up to the dedicated server. Now you're in the big leagues with an entire server dedicated to your hosting needs. However, without any experience, succeeding with this hosting option is nearly impossible - those who require a dedicated server but don't know a thing about server administration can get by with managed hosting. In this scenario, the hosting service provider handles all the management tasks which frees you up to focus on other areas of the business. Keep in mind that a managed service requires is generally more costly.

WHAT IS THE BEST HOSTING FOR YOU?

The best advice we can give about hosting is to know what you're getting into.Shared hosting is suited for small businesses and a dedicated server is designed for larger hosting needs, yet is far more expensive. By knowing what your site requires, it will be much easier to determine which is the best solution.

A virtual private server (VPS) is created through the process of virtualization, by which a virtual replica of a physical server is created. VPS is for hosting  websites and/or software applications, particularly web based ones. Unlike shared hosting, this data is isolated on a single virtual machine, with resources solely dedicated to its user.

A virtual private server provides you a complete isolation on a physical server for your hosting. Your Virtual Private Server will be unaffected by other users. The CPU, RAM, HDD, and Bandwidth allocated to your  VPS Hosting package will always be available for your applications. A VPS server gives you all the features of a Dedicated server at an affordable price.

VPS hosting is technically a combination between both shared hosting and dedicated hosting. With dedicated servers, you rent out an entire server, which can get pretty expensive fast. With shared hosting, you end up renting a portion of a server that’s shared with other users. Read our blog to learn  which type of hosting is best for your business.

There are no limits to how many services,  domains or applications you can run from a VPS server. However, you need to make sure that you allocate enough resources to deal with the services you expect to provide.

With VPS hosting you have much more control over the software that your server is running. Typically, the only limits placed upon the software you can run are the  operating system the server runs on and your total memory allocation.

For first-time site builders and owners of small websites, shared hosting can fill the bill for an affordable price, but that option may not be able to meet the needs of larger, more complex sites and those with high traffic volume. For those users,  dedicated hosting  offers a scalable, highly customizable alternative that bypasses the limitations and risks of shared hosting in favor of sole occupancy on a server reserved exclusively for a single website.

In all web hosting models, account holders’ sites are hosted and maintained on the servers of a remote provider that is also responsible for essential maintenance and some site management, depending on the type of hosting plan. To keep costs low, shared hosting providers put many accounts on the same server, where they draw from the server’s shared resources.

In this environment, any site can be affected by the behavior of its neighbors on the server. A surge in traffic on one site can cause others to run slowly or experience interruptions in service, and the basic security measures put in place by the provider may not be able to stop malicious activity that infects sites through shared technology. And, since shared hosting is designed for smaller sites with low traffic, when a site’s monthly traffic volume exceeds a cap set by the provider, the account can be terminated.

Dedicated hosting avoids those issues by providing a more flexible, efficient, and safe alternative for growing sites with an ever-increasing volume of traffic, as well as the established sites of large companies. In this hosting model, a provider makes an entire server and all its resources available to a single client, with varying levels of support and maintenance available depending on the provider’s hosting plans.

Although dedicated web hosting can cost considerably more than basic shared hosting, this kind of hosting environment offers far more flexibility, privacy and user control than other kinds of web hosting solutions. The benefits of dedicated web hosting include enhanced performance, better security, complete customer control, and a spectrum of support services from the hosting provider. If these are the kind of features you are looking for,  get started with dedicated hosting today.

Dedicated hosting is not for everyone. This kind of  hosting can be expensive, costing hundreds per month, although some providers offer self-managed economy plans for less. For new users with small sites, or longtime sites with small amounts of traffic, shared hosting at a lower cost might be the right choice for both short and long term needs.

For sites that have, or expect to have, significant traffic, dedicated hosting provides the needed resources to accommodate site visits numbering into the millions. Dedicated hosting also supports complex sites that require extensive customization, such as those sponsored by large ecommerce businesses and other kinds of enterprises. This kind of hosting may also be right for sites that demand strict security, such as those involving financial transactions or the handling of medical data and patient information.

Shared hosting options may be all a small site needs for the duration of its life, but with exclusive server resources and extensive user support, dedicated hosting provides the flexibility and scalability that can sustain a website’s growth and development now and for the future.

Enhanced Website Performance

In a dedicated hosting environment, all resources such as bandwidth, RAM and CPU output on a user’s contracted server are dedicated to supporting that user’s single site. That ensures maximum uptime with no “competition” from other sites on a shared server, so that a site’s performance can’t be affected by shifts in the use of those shared resources. With all resources available at all times, dedicated hosting can also offer enhanced speeds and added stability for businesses whose computing needs involve sensitive financial transactions or the handling of personal information.

Superior Security for Unique Needs

Dedicated website hosting avoids many of the security issues that worry users of shared hosting services. Depending on the hosting plan, dedicated hosting users may be able to install security measures designed to meet their specific needs alongside – or in place of – those that are provided by the host. Because sites on dedicated servers don’t share space with others, they face no risk of becoming “infected” through shared technology by malware or malicious activity directed at a neighboring site on a shared server.

Each server used for hosting has its own IP address and, in a shared hosting environment, that IP address is also shared by all the sites, both legitimate and questionable, that are using that server. Because no other sites share a server in a dedicated hosting situation, each site has a unique IP address, which eliminates confusion and adds additional layers of security that can be essential for processing financial and medical transactions.

Flexibility for Customization

Dedicated hosting makes it possible for users to have virtually complete control over all aspects of their sites – or leave some or all of its management in the hands of the hosting provider. With managed hosting plans, the host handles ongoing site management along with maintaining the server itself, while self-managed hosting allows site owners complete control of all aspects of their site, with only server maintenance and support provided by the host. In both models, though, users are free to install software packages and security features of their choice to meet the specific needs of the site and the company behind it.

Dedicated hosting also provides scalability for the life of a site. Though a site can outgrow the limited resources of a shared hosting environment fairly quickly, the resources of a dedicated server make it possible to scale a site to just about any size – and to add the additional features and functionality it needs at every stage of development. Dedicated hosting packages allow for scalability, too, with tiered pricing that reflects added RAM, bandwidth, and other features as needed.

Ongoing Technical and Server Support

Dedicated hosting providers typically offer around the clock technical support from a well-trained staff with the expertise to resolve issues of all kinds – an important aspect of this kind of hosting, since users can opt to handle all aspects of site management on their own. Hosts also provide ongoing server support, including maintenance and installing upgrades and other features as needed for optimum performance and uptime. All costs for maintaining the server are assumed by the provider, but users can purchase and install any software they choose.

Fully Managed Dedicated Server Hosting is an isolated hosting environment where the provider handles the setup, administration, management, and support of the server or platform application. The resources are specific to the user ensuring that your data alone is hosted in your environment without being affected by the issues that arise from sharing resources.

What is a domain name? In the simplest of definitions, a domain name is your website’s address on the internet.

However, while technically correct — the best kind of correct — there’s actually a lot more to the story you need to know!

First off, the power of domain names goes far above their ability to ‘address websites on the web’. In fact, selecting the right domain name can have a very serious impact on your website’s — and, therefore, your brand’s — success.

But let’s start with the technical details of what a domain name is (we kind of need that part to explain that other stuff).

What Is a Domain Name from a Technical Point of View?

Like I mentioned above, a domain name is your website’s address on the internet. Exhibit A:


In other words, if you want to find your way to WinningWP, all you need to do is fire up your web browser and put the site’s address — the winningwp.com domain name — into the address bar.

But there’s a lot more cool stuff going on under the hood with domain names, so to speak.

First of all, a domain name consists of two parts:


SLD (Second Level Domain): When registering your domain name, this part can consist of any number of alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) and hyphens (permitted if surrounded by other characters or digits). No spaces are allowed.

For example, if your business is called Joe’s Extra Diner, you may want to make your SLD  joesextradiner.

TLD (Top Level Domain): Back in the day, this part used to indicate the purpose of the whole domain name, or the entity that the domain belonged to. There’s only a finite number of TLDs you can choose from (you can’t input your own as you can with an SLD).

The most popular TLDs to choose from, along with their originally intended purposes, are:

  • .com — all commercial purposes
  • .org — organizations (often non-profit)
  • .net — network projects (whatever that means)
  • .edu — educational institutions
  • .gov — the US government
  • .biz — everything business
  • .info — universal

Right now, though, no one pays too much attention to those intended purposes for TLDs, and there’s surely no one forcing you to use a  .org when launching a website for a non-profit. There are no rules you need to adhere to when picking a TLD — you can go with whatever seems to fit your future website. That being said, except in exceptional circumstances, it’s no longer possible to get your hands on  .gov or  .edu domains.

In the end, however, what everybody wants is a  .com: It’s the most recognizable and the most prestigious TLD.

Alternatively, there are also hundreds of local/regional TLDs, such as:

  • .uk — for the UK
  • .ca — Canada
  • .pl — Poland
  • .it — Italy
  • etc.

You can consider using one of these instead of  .com if your website will only operate locally. (Note: Always try to own the .com as well if possible — primarily because a lot of people will assume your domain name is a .com when typing it into their web browser, but also because you don’t want your site being confused with another. You can then redirect the .com to the alternative domain that you’ve chosen.)

Just to recap this part of our answer to what is a domain name:

The SLD and the TLD, when combined, make up the complete domain name. So, for the site you’re reading right now:  winningwp is the SLD,  com is the TLD, and together we have  winningwp.com as the complete domain name.

As long as a domain registrar is accredited by ICANN, there is little difference in the functionality different domain registrars provide.

Yes, you can. Even if you are not Albanian you can still register .al domain. However the regulation mandates that the administrative contact of your domain must be an Albanian residential. If you do not have any, we can represent you as administrative contact.

For the 3rd level domains the following apply:

  1.  Company ID addition field is mandatory.
  2.  .com.al requires as additional documents company registration certificate. Only Public Limited Company or Trading Person can have legal status.
  3.  .org.al requires as additional document the license that company ID be provided. Only Public Limited Company can have legal status.
  4.  .edu.al requires as additional document the license from the Ministry of Education in Albania. Only Public Limited Company or Public Entity/Organisation can have legal status.
  5.  In some cases the Registry (AKEP) can ask for ID card. This is mostly in cases when the domain is a trademark.

A domain name transfer is the process of changing your domain name registrar from the company that maintains your domain registration to a new registrar. At hostime.al, we ensure the process is simple and painless so you can get on with your day.