Shared hosting is a hosting service where your website and related components are kept on a server which is shared by multiple numbers of users. This is one of the most economical hosting services, most suitable for individuals and small businesses since all clients are sharing the cost of server maintenance and a single hard disk is partitioned and also shared between several clients:

What is Shared Hosting ?

It is a hosting service where a number of website are hosted in a single server is called as a shared hosting . This means that all the resources of the shared hosting such as bandwidth, space, database, FTP accounts and email accounts, is shared by a number of websites hosted by that particular server. There is no definite number of websites that a single server may host, the number could be in the tens, or hundreds or thousands. Shared hosting plans are offered at affordable prices and cheap prices because of sharing the resources of a single server. Apart from the resources mentioned , you have to also share the computer processor, memory and maintenance costs of the server.

Other Advantages

• Shared hosting is cheaper as compared to dedicated hosting and VPS which means that even websites like personal blogging and small businesses can afford it.
• The maintenance and administration of the server is taken care of by the hosting provider because of which you don’t need to concern yourself with the technical issues of the server.
• You don’t need to posses any special knowledge in website and server administration as the administration chores to takes care of the hosting provider.
• You will be provided with a cPanel or other user-friendly application that are designed to make your website management easy.
• You will get multiple email accounts with your domain and option to have more than one database.
• You will also get MySQL and PHP support.
• There are number of websites share the same resources, in which most of the shared hosting plans provided for around the clock supervision, maintenance and technical support which gives you uptime reliability almost comparable to dedicated plans.