Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Shared Website Hosting And Its Benefits And Liabilities

By Amanda Baird


Shared website hosting refers to a web service where many sites reside in one server connected to the internet. Every consumer is assigned their own space in the server, which may have hundreds or thousands of sites. All the websites use the same operating system, bandwidth, disc room, and software.

These are ideal if you want to create a professional website, but you do not need huge amounts of space, memory or options. The most obvious benefit of this is the price because this kind of service is inexpensive. There is also a lot of competition between different hosting companies that make them very cheap and you can easily acquire enough space.

You can even have a lot of room, up to 40 gigabytes. You will not have to pay upkeep and setup since the amount your paying will include all that. This is very convenient to small time businesses and those still starting up. They are mostly managed by a professional individual who is highly skilled in this aspect and who maintains the systems.

This will allow you to concentrate on your site and your businesses while he take cares of the matters concerning the system. If you avail of their services, your site would be able to go live within 24 hours since they can instantly set it up. This is also to navigate, which is why you do not need to be a technical person to set up your site.

They usually have management tools such as a control panel which makes installing your site easier and less confusing. This helps in making the structure of the pages of your site and makes managing the accounts and emails very easy. With control panels, this also makes customization easier.

They can assist you in posting your pictures and many other images and, other than that, you could even check your statistics. Other than the cost, most consumers will consider the space the company can provide and its bandwidth that will be essential in running the business as efficiently as possible. However, as many benefits as it has, there also disadvantages of this kind of hosting.

It has some issues on stability especially with the number of consumers where it becomes difficult to keep up the bandwidth equal among the users. The performance of one can have an effect on the performance of other websites. For instance, if one of them has a lot of traffic going on, then it might slow down the performance of your site instead.

You also do not have permission to install programs since it is maintained by another individual or company. They may not allow you to download or run any program that you would like to put up. If you really like to install a specific program, there are many servers out there that you can choose from. This type of hosting may not be applicable to those who will need a large space and a lot of bandwidth like Ecommerce.

Shared website hosting has its own pros and cons, but it depends on your business requirements. This might be ideal if you are a novice in web development and your business small to moderately sized. If it meets all your requirements then this may be a good choice for you.




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