Pros
and Cons of Shared Hosting
By
Olga Elizarova
There are a lot of various types of web
site hosting. They can be classified by different indexes.
There is Paid and Free web hosting; Linux/Unix-based and Windows-based (and
other but they are no that popular); shared, dedicated and VPS. Every hosting
type has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The key aim of this article is to acquaint you with main merits and drawbacks of
shared hosting.
First of all we must give a definition of the term "shared hosting". So, what
is shared hosting?
Shared hosting is such kind of providing space for web sites on the
hoster's server when you share this server with other customers' web sites. All
web sites use the same software and operating system. But unlike free web
hosting which has the same conditions, with shared web hosting you have much
more benefits.
Shared web hosting can be divided into two subtypes:
Free Shared Hosting is the best choice for trying some new ideas and not
paying for hosting. This type of web site hosting provides you with everything
necessary for floating your site. Of course you should not expect the best
conditions for your site. Bandwidth and Disk Space is limited. This type of
shared hosting may not ensure you with MySQL, PHP support. Web statistics is
also poorly provided
Paid Shared Hosting provides such necessary features, as multiply e-mail,
MySQl, PHP are supported. You may use it if you want to host small business web
site, intermediate or large professional site but don't need the whole server's
space.Using shared hosting you get a good possibility to host your site on a
powerful, well administrated server at a low monthly cost.
Shared hosting is in first-time webmasters' great demand, 'cause it can provide
reliable web presence without having special technical skills.
So now we can pick out pros and cons of shared
hosting:
Pros
•
Low cost
•
Good server administration
•
Multiple e-mail, MySQL, PHP support
•
You don't need some unique knowledge in
web site and server administration
Cons
•
Low security level
•
Resource limitation - everybody uses the
same memory, CPU and HardDrive.
•
You can use only the software which is
provided with your hosting company, and correspondingly you can't install
your own.
•
Some available ports and connections can
be limited because of security policy.
The main feature of shared hosting is that you
don't need to worry about about possible server problems. Your hosting company's
support service is to fix all troubles. So, when choosing shared hosting you
must carefully look at company support's quality, the better quality of support
- the better conditions for your site.
With shared hosting you can also place several sites in the neighbour parts of
the server.
Now when you are acquainted with all special features of shared hosting you can
decide whether this type of hosting is appropriate to your needs and
requirements.
More hosting articles you can also find here http://www.web-site-hosting-reviews.com,
http://www.web-hosting-review.net and
http://www.cheap-web-hosting-directory.com.
Olga Elizarova is a webmaster and articles
editor of hosting reviews sites
http://www.web-site-hosting-reviews.com and
http://www.web-hosting-review.net.
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