If you’re looking to have a website built, there’s a good chance you’ll need to setup and pay for a web hosting. Web hosting is a service that stores your website files so that visitors can access your site. Without it, your website will not be accessible online. However, choosing what type of website hosting suits your business the best can be a challenge. Today, we’re going to be discussing shared web hosting, which is the most common form of website hosting available.
Web hosting accounts store your website on what is known as a server, and each server is designed with a specific set of finite resources. A shared web hosting account means that your website will be stored on a server with several other websites. In this case, you receive a partitioned portion of the server with limited resources. This differs from dedicated web hosting, which stores only your website on the server.
Shared Hosting Advantages
Shared hosting accounts have one main advantage: the cost. Dedicated web hosting from a reliable provider is expensive (sometimes hundreds of dollars a month), while shared hosting accounts can be purchased for just a couple dollars a month. As such, the cost is a common reason to avoid dedicated web hosting.
Disadvantages
Unfortunately, shared web hosting comes with several disadvantages as well. First, if one of the other websites that is sharing your server gets hacked, it can impact your website. This makes shared hosting accounts less secure than dedicated ones. In addition, the shared allocation of resources means that performance is significantly decreased. This can lead to long loading times and significant lagging.
While shared web hosting is a good starting point for new businesses, dedicated web hosting tends to be a better long term solution. Having developed websites for businesses of various sizes, we’ve worked with a variety of hosting providers. If you’re interested in our website development services, contact us HERE!
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