Shared Hosting: Key Points to Consider

Posted by Sunder Singh on June 7th, 2017

I am the small business owner, and I have a small website to host, which hosting should I go for?

Or

I am a lawyer who has a simple site which hosting will be the most suitable for me?

Or

I have a small blog which I want to put on the internet, will share hosting suffice?

These are some common questions which any small firm owner or any individual will like to find answers for before hosting a website on the internet. In this article we’ll get to learn what shared hosting is all about and some points to consider before going for it.

Shared Hosting

It is the type of web hosting that allows many websites to share the same physical web server and its various resources. It is one of the most common hosting provided by the hosting service providers. When the customer signs up for this hosting the service provider creates a logical partition on the web server.

There are other websites which are also present on the web server which shares the computing resources. Here are some points which you need to consider before going for the shared hosting service.

Disk Space

With shared hosting the amount of the disk space is limited. You must take into account what is the disk space is being offered by the service provider.

Bandwidth

In the shared hosting, the bandwidth is also limited as it is shared amongst many service providers.

Transfers

There are many web hosting web service providers that will provide up to 100GB of data transfer.

Costs

When you go with shared hosting, the server resources are shared amongst several users. Thus the operating expenses are lower making it more affordable for the small business owners.

Security

In shared hosting, the responsibility lies with the hosting company & it installs the firewalls and the server security applications and programs.

Performance

In shared hosting, the performance of the website is slower as there are many sites which share it.

There are two kinds of hosting which is usually provided:

Linux Hosting

In this hosting, the web server is hosted on the Linux-based physical server. There are many pre-installed applications. Tech support is available 24*7*365.

Windows Hosting

In this hosting, the web server is hosted on the Window based physical server. You can find many applications installed as technical support is available round the clock throughout the year.

Thus when looking for a shared hosting service provided understand the plan offered and see if some free emails are delivered as well.