Shared Web Hosting, Shared Hosting

What is shared web hosting?

Shared web hosting is a cheap way to host your websites if your websites do not need very high performance and bandwidth. In shared web hosting, the web hosting server is actually shared by many websites. Number of domain on one shared web hosting server can be thousands. It is because the web hosting cost is shared by many websites, the web hosting cost is cheap and affordable.

The administrations of shared web hosting are all managed by the web hosting provider with professional skills. Shared hosting web servers are monitored by IT professionals of the web hosting provider to minimize downtimes.

Shared hosting servers are always run on Linux web hosting platform and each website hosted on the web hosting server is given a separate web hosting account. All websites hosted on the same shared web hosting servers have the same IP address.
Advantages of Shared Web Hosting

- Cheap web hosting cost
Since many websites are hosted on the same web hosting server, web hosting price are really affordable when it is shared by all websites. The average cost of shared web hosting is below $5 per month today. Many shared web hosting plans now have unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth, you can also host more domains to fully unitize all resources.

- No technical experience is needed
Since shared web hosting servers are fully managed by IT professionals employed by the web hosting provider, you can focus on your own business without worry about maintenance of your own web hosting server.

- Easy management of websites
In the shared web hosting environment, webmasters can manage their websites by web hosting control panel provided by the web hosting company. Webmasters can upload files, remove files, add database, check web statistic, etc.

Disadvantages of Shared Web Hosting

- Slower Responses time
Since shared web hosting server can host many domains, response time will be slower than dedicate server or virtual private server (VPS).

- Reliability
If one websites hosted on the shared web hosting server install bug program or script, it can bring down the whole web hosting server. All websites on the same shared web hosting server will be down.

- Sharing The Same IP
Moreover, even if just one website in your shared web server got banned by ISP or search engine all websites in the same shared web hosting server will be banned as a result because they are all sharing the same IP address. Although you may solve this problem by just buying a dedicated IP.

Before you decide to purchase a shared web hosting plan, you should understand more of your own needs so that you can find out the best web hosting solution for yourself.