What Is Shared Web Hosting?

[Matt]

What Is Shared Web Hosting?

Shared web hosting defined

Shared web hosting is one of the many types of hosting that companies may offer. In a shared hosting environment, many different clients share the same server and the same resources. While each client has their own limits on certain things (storage space, allowed email accounts, allowed bandwidth per month, allowed FTP accounts), the same Apache server, MySQL server, and even physical memory are shared.

What are the advantages of shared hosting?

While it may sound like sharing resources with other clients could be a disadvantage, shared hosting is a popular, economical and resourceful solution for many clients. Because you are sharing resources, it's possible to use the server's hardware and resources to it's full potential, translating into affordable web hosting for the client.

Another advantage to shared web hosting is that the client is responsible for little, if any, server maintenance or management. So things like routine maintenance, tuning, and upgrades are handled for you.

Is shared hosting right for my needs?

Because of the limited resources and economical price of a shared web hosting plan, it is often the first place people look when they are looking to get started with hosting. Shared web hosting is often a good place to start, especially when you are unsure of exactly what your needs are, how many visitors you will get or how much storage space you need. With a shared web hosting account, you can start out slow, and upgrade your hosting plan to meet your needs as they arise. As your needs grow and as your website becomes more popular, as it most certainly will.

[itsgreg_x]

So Shared hosting is like... 2 or more people use the same hosting account, they pay for it together, and share the the space on half?

[Matt]

not the same hosting account but the same server. Each person will have there own hosting account (control panel) Basically the host sells off sections of the server to people. Sometimes hosts oversell and have too many people on the same server and then the server becomes really slow since so many sites are using the same resources.

[itsgreg_x]

not the same hosting account but the same server. Each person will have there own hosting account (control panel) Basically the host sells off sections of the server to people. Sometimes hosts oversell and have too many people on the same server and then the server becomes really slow since so many sites are using the same resources.

Oh, but they pay it together, right?

[jesu]

yeah i think they will share the amount of what they pay because they sharing right?