What is Shared Hosting?
Shared hosting is one of the most popular hosting options for those who are building out their first websites. Sared hosting is easily the cheapest and most economical option for your needs, Shared hosting allows multiple websites to utilize a single server. Each customer will usually have a limit on the total amount of server resources they can use which will be defined by your hosting package you are purchasing.
Since most hosting companies are offer the same amount of space and storage. it’s important for you to choose a great company you can trust on. Before you make a decision to use or discard using a shared hosting option, it is important to understand both the advantages and disadvantages of the service.
Benifits of Shared Hosting
Perhaps the biggest advantage of shared web hosting is that it is usually offered at extremely affordable rates. The usual price for this style of hosting will range from $0.50-$2.99.
Most hosting companies have multiple levels of hosting available, so you can upgrade your hosting package as per your future need. This makes shared hosting a great place to start.
As for the options for customising, the resources in shared hosting are divided among several users, however, the website is still managed by the webmaster using control panel tools. The control panel tool is quite user-friendly which helps users to manage a range of features such as uploading files and images, as well as checking site statistics.
No technical maintenance needs to be done on your end to the server, as this is usually included in part of your hosting package. Shared hosting can be a great option for website owners with a small budget, or those just getting started online.
Disadvantage of Shared Hosting
Shared hosting sounds pretty good as it’s very cheap & affordable, has a solid uptime, and is easy to manage. But, it does come with certain drawbacks.
- The load time can be slower than Cloud Web Hosting or dedicated server.
- The server might become overburdened by other sites that are sharing the server.
- As your site begins to receive higher levels of traffic you’ll begin to notice that your site might begin to perform worse.
- There’s a lack of customization options compared to VPS or Dedicated Server to truly get the highest level of performance from your website.
Shared Web Hosting Accounts Limits
We know you are curious knowing about our Infrastructure and limits from the server end. All our Cloud web hosting packages have the following limits:
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R)
- CPUs: Allocate from master plan
- Disk Space: Allocate from master plan
- Bandwidth: Allocate from master plan (unlimited)
- Physical Memory: Allocate from master plan (1 GB max)
- Number of Processes: 100
- I/O Limit: 1024 KB/s
- I/O operations per second: 1024
- Inodes: 2,00,000 or as per plan
* Note: Accounts over 50,000 Inodes or 10GB disk aren’t included in daily backups
Features of Shared Web Hosting We Offers
We build a different wonderful Shared Web Hosting plans which includes everything you need to run your secure website with affordable budget. Details of each component included with our Shared hosting :
- Free SSL (https) – All domains and sub-domains hosted on our Web Hosting Hosting accounts come with free and automatic SSL (https) powered by Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
- Weekly Backups – Our Shared hosting package include with weekly backup of each cPanel account. Restore the entire /home/ directory, email, or a single file without having to submit a ticket! We only keey one weekly backup for our hosting. If you need daily or multiple backup, you can continue with our backup solutions from CodeGuard.
- Multiple Versions Of PHP – While it’s suggested customers run the latest version of PHP, some applications simply cannot support it. That’s why we offer the ability to select multiple PHP versions right inside of cPanel. We even patch older versions of PHP to ensure they’re being used securely. You can also add specific PHP extensions and modify values such as upload limits right inside of cPanel.