| You have designed your web site, and have all your | | | | providers are able to offer very competitively priced |
| content ready to be hosted, now all you need to do | | | | shared hosting plans. For shared hosting you can |
| is decided on the type of hosting required for your | | | | expect to pay $3-$8 per month for shared hosting |
| site, but with so many hosting companies offering | | | | services, with some providers offering up to |
| various types of web hosting plans based on shared | | | | 20,000MB of space and 1TB of bandwidth within in |
| hosting, dedicated hosting, mangaged hosting, and | | | | this price range. This is amazing value, thanks to |
| virtual private server hosting, which type of hosting | | | | competition web hosting is now within the reach of |
| do you choose? | | | | the personal web designer or hobbyist, and not |
| Shared Web Hosting - What is it? | | | | reserved for just businesses with large budgets. |
| Shared hosting is an economic way of hosting web | | | | Shared hosting web servers due to their nature need |
| sites where you do not require high performance | | | | to be maintained round the clock by highly skilled IT |
| (CPU workload) and high bandwidth. As the name | | | | professionals, this lets you concentrate on managing |
| "Shared Hosting" suggests, the server that is hosting | | | | your web site, you can leave all the other things |
| the web pages is shared between many users, this is | | | | related to web hosting to the professionals. |
| how web hosting providers can sell web hosting | | | | Shared hosting web masters can manage their web |
| space at affordable prices down to as low as $3-$4 | | | | site using what is commonly known as a control panel |
| a month, many accounts on one server spreads the | | | | to manage their hosting, this allows you to add |
| cost of the server among many users. Whereas a | | | | domains, monitor statistics, create databases, |
| dedicated server can cost upwards of $100 per | | | | manage email addresses and all manner of other |
| month. | | | | things. Each web hosting provider varies what |
| With many web sites hosted on a web server you | | | | facilities are made available to you in their control |
| can be sure that web hosting providers will not make | | | | panel, but thanks to fierce competition between web |
| any compromises on performance issues, they will | | | | hosting providers these days the differences |
| also not make any compromises on security, as one | | | | between each providers feature set is decreasing. |
| web site with a security issue could affect all other | | | | Todays shared web hosting service comes with |
| sites on the server, for this reason shared servers | | | | enough disk space and bandwidth to be more than |
| are monitored and maintained 24 hours a day, 7 days | | | | sufficient for small businesses, and if you ever need |
| a week by IT professionals to ensure minimum | | | | resources than what your current plan offers you |
| downtimes. | | | | can always upgrade as your web site grows in size |
| The Advantages of Shared Web Hosting | | | | and popularity. |
| As many web sites are hosted per server, hosting | | | | |