Web hosting is a service that hosts websites for clients on their servers. Web hosts often provide different server types and software, such as a website builder or easy CMS integration, to create sites to get online.

Choosing a web hosting provider that caters to your particular needs and tech skillset is important. For example, the tools you get with Spaceship Web Hosting solutions make it easy to go through the process of domain registration and build your online presence.

Think about what you want your website to do — whether it's a personal portfolio, small business site, online store, or growing blog. Shared Hosting is a great place to start for many types of websites because it offers the essential tools you need, like email, SSL, and one-click installs, all at an affordable price.

Shared hosting is ideal for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and creators who want a reliable platform without the complexity of managing a server. As your needs grow, you can always scale up to a more advanced hosting options, like Virtual Machines.

Shared web hosting is considered the most budget-friendly way to get your website online. It's a great option for startups, local businesses, personal projects, or anyone just starting out. With shared hosting, multiple websites are housed on a single physical server, which helps keep costs low by sharing system resources.

Each user gets a portion of the server's resources, including disk space, databases, CPU, RAM, and FTP accounts. You'll also share core infrastructure like the MySQL database server and LiteSpeed web server. While these resources are shared, they’re carefully allocated to ensure stability and performance for everyday website needs.

Web hosting plans come with control panels where users can manage their shared hosting. For example, with Spaceship you get Hosting Manager, a dashboard where you can upgrade or downgrade your plan easily, check resources, and add domains, SSL certificates, and mailboxes to your hosting account, among other things.

For advanced features and setup, you can use cPanel, which comes with our Web Hosting plans. In cPanel, you'll be able to build your website, upload and manage files and databases, and install scripts.

• Essential plan – Host up to 5 domains or subdomains.
• Pro and Supreme plans – Host an unlimited number of domains and subdomains.

Regardless of your plan, you can create unlimited websites within your hosting subscription by uploading content to different folders in your account. Each folder functions as a separate website. If you start with the Essential plan, you can upgrade anytime to a higher plan in just a few clicks when you need more resources.

Yes, with Spaceship Hosting Manager you can install WordPress in just a few clicks.

WordPress AI Tools is designed to work only with new WordPress installations. If you already have an existing website built on WordPress, you won’t be able to use the AI Launch or Site Assistant features. However, you can still install the plugin to browse the Design Library and get layout inspiration and guidance.

All shared hosting plans include AI Website Builder at no extra cost. AI Website Builder is an AI web builder powered by Sitejet. Just enter your business name and industry, and Sitejet AI will generate a complete site that you can customise with a simple drag-and-drop builder.

On the other hand, WordPress AI Tools comes pre-installed with WordPress at no extra cost for Supreme and Pro plans during the Unbox™ process. This is a native site creation experience built entirely on core WordPress components, maintaining full compatibility with WP plugins, themes, and WooCommerce. The builder includes: AI Launch, AI Site Assistant, and Design Library. For more details, visit our guide.

The number of visitors your website can handle depends on how efficiently it’s built. A well-coded site that uses minimal server resources per visitor can handle significantly more traffic than one that’s bloated or poorly optimized. Other factors, like images, plugins, scripts, and background processes, also play a role.

That said, Spaceship’s Shared Hosting is powered by cloud-based infrastructure, which means better performance and availability than traditional shared hosting. While there’s no fixed visitor limit, our architecture is designed to support high traffic levels for well-optimized sites.

• Free malware protection for websites, including real-time scanning and cleanup.
• Advanced built-in website firewall protection.
• Proactive defense against zero-day attacks.
• Intrusion detection and prevention.
• Reputation management to help keep your domain from blacklists.

Even so, we advise our customers to use secure usernames and passwords, regularly scan computers and websites, use a secured FTP connection, and keep website scripts, plugins, and themes versions up-to-date.

• Rate limiting.
• Blackholing.
• Intrusion detection and prevention system.
• Web application firewall.
• HTTP-sessions pattern analysis.

Note: These measures are used to help protect servers, and do not include individual website protection. If you are looking for individual DDoS protection for your website, please consider purchasing it from a trusted vendor.

• EU and UK Hosting: Ideal for serving audiences in Europe, the UK, and Africa. Hosting in these locations ensures faster website performance and localised data storage, making it a reliable and efficient solution.
• Singapore web server hosting: Perfect for Asia-based audiences. Our Singapore data centre offers low-latency for audiences in this region, reliable service powered by 100% renewable energy, and is certified to ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 standards, ensuring sustainability and exceptional website performance.