| After designing of website next important thing is | | | | after around the clock by IT professionals, who |
| to get it hosted on the internet. The task is not | | | | are experts in their respective field, one can |
| at easy as there are so many companies offering | | | | concentrate more effectively on his/her web |
| various types of web hosting packages like | | | | business and the problem of downtime and |
| shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting, | | | | maintenance will not bother him/her any more. |
| managed web hosting etc. Now the problem is | | | | 3. Utility options: In case of shared web hosting, |
| which one to use? | | | | though web resources are shared, utility options |
| In general it is considered a good idea to go for | | | | are provided by the hosting company so that |
| shared web hosting if the user is in a small | | | | user can manage his/her website using control |
| business and wants to save cost. However | | | | panel or similar tools. User is having an option to |
| before finalizing the deal it is good to know what | | | | upload files, modify /remove web pages, add |
| is shared web hosting service and what are the | | | | database, check web statistic etc. Not only that, |
| merits and demerits of shared web hosting. | | | | user is also provided facility to create domain |
| Defining shared hosting: | | | | name specific e-mails accounts. |
| If extremely high performance and high | | | | 4. Efficient: Now-a-days shared web hosting |
| bandwidth are not the points in question, then | | | | service usually comes with web space and |
| shared web hosting service can be a most | | | | bandwidth that are more than sufficient for small |
| convenient and economic way of hosting web | | | | business websites. Efficiency lies in the fact, that |
| sites.. As name implies, in case of shared web | | | | in addition to above, one can add more resources |
| hosting service, the web server that hosts the | | | | and can even overrun the web space or |
| web pages is shared by several other websites. | | | | bandwidth usage. |
| Talking about number of websites on a shared | | | | Demerits: |
| hosting server, they can be in thousands. Now | | | | 1. Problem with response time: As the web server |
| due to the fact that just one server is fulfilling the | | | | is shared, websites in the shared web hosting |
| requirements of many other websites, the plus | | | | have to face problem of slower server response |
| point is they can offer cheap prices for their | | | | time as compared to dedicate server hosting. |
| server. | | | | 2. Problem of Reliability: In case of shared web |
| As there are so many websites hosted on a | | | | hosting, problem of reliability remains as usually |
| single web server, still there is no pint of worry | | | | web hosting providers may take care of the |
| for the user as the web hosting providers will not | | | | security and performance of the shared server |
| compromise on any kind of security and | | | | but it is also possible that some of websites |
| performance issues in case of shared hosting | | | | hosted on the shared server run a nasty program |
| servers. Not only that, shared hosting web | | | | or script or over-utilize the resources, resulting in |
| servers are operated, monitored and look after | | | | bringing down the web server. Thus due to fault |
| around the clock by IT professionals, so as to | | | | of one all websites have to suffer downtimes and |
| minimize server downtimes. | | | | inaccessibility in case of shared web hosting. |
| Shared hosting servers run on UNIX or other | | | | 3. Problems related to sharing: As discussed above |
| multi-user operating system and each website | | | | also, due to fault of one all users have to face |
| hosted on the web server is provided a separate | | | | the problem for example if there is any one "bad" |
| account in the operating system. These websites | | | | website in shared web server, due to it all |
| hosted on shared servers are provided unique | | | | websites on the server can be banned altogether |
| shared IP addresses and are provided with a fix | | | | by ISP or search engine due to shared IP address. |
| amount of web resources. | | | | However it is worth to note that one can always |
| The following are some of the merits and | | | | pay extra to get a dedicated IP address to avoid |
| demerits of shared web hosting: | | | | the above problem. |
| Merits: | | | | 4. Problems related to Security: As many |
| 1. Cost effective: Due to the fact that many | | | | websites shared one server, problem of security |
| websites are hosted on a single web server, web | | | | always remains in case of shared web hosting as |
| hosting providers provide economic shared web | | | | it is quite easy to hack one’s sensitive datas |
| hosting services. Generally, the cost is as low as | | | | by another on the same server. |
| $5-10 per month for shared web hosting services. | | | | Thus in conclusion it can be said that before |
| Now-a-days due to cut throat competition in web | | | | deciding to deal with shared web hosting, one |
| hosting industry, one can find several web hosting | | | | should consider all the merits and demerits of |
| companies offering huge web space and | | | | shared web hosting as highlighted above. One |
| bandwidth with as high as 1000 MB disk space and | | | | should not forget the success of his/her business |
| 40 GB bandwidth. | | | | depends upon his/her website which in turn |
| 2. Feasible: Due to the fact that shared hosting | | | | depends upon good host provider. |
| web servers are operated, monitored and look | | | | |