Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is the most common or basic form of hosting which is least expensive when compared with other forms of hosting. As multiple clients and their websites share a single server, it is termed to be “shared hosting”. For instance, Shared hosting is like renting the houses in an apartment as each and every house could be rented by different individuals. Shared hosting allows many accounts to be hosted on it and the number of hosting accounts can range from few to few hundred. A particular amount of space is allocated to each account and all the accounts would have to share the resources like disk space and bandwidth. If you need to host your website in a server and don’t want to pay much amount, you can choose Shared hosting. Moreover if you are having a small business website, Shared hosting is an ideal solution for you since you can get shopping cart software and multiple email accounts which in turn improves your business.

As the web host itself manages the shared hosting account, you don’t need to have a separate administrator for the account. Shared hosting free plans allow you to generate new ideas and execute them without paying. If you get shared hosting for payment, you can have your own domain name, emails, support for programming languages like MySQL, PHP, and .NET. Advanced shared hosting providers can provide their clients a user friendly control panel called cPanel, which helps you to manage your account without any risks. Shared hosting is highly recommended for small to medium websites including personal web pages and websites that use less than 1 GB of bandwidth a day.