| Web hosting is a very competitive market. There | | | | of processes you will be able to run |
| are many companies that offer cheap hosting | | | | simultaneously. In general this is not a problem. If |
| services. Prices are low and choosing the best | | | | you will use static HTML web pages then this will |
| hosting company is not an easy task. Of course, | | | | not be a problem at all. Even if you will use scripts |
| the price should not be the primary criteria. You | | | | like WordPress or Joomla you will still be able to |
| need reliability and support at first place. But even | | | | hosts many websites. |
| when you have such high standards you can find | | | | The problem you will encounter are the processes |
| many providers that offer high reliability, have | | | | which run when a visitor requests a web page. |
| great support via forums, email and telephone and | | | | Their number is very likely limited. It means that |
| offer competitive prices. Many offer also the so | | | | at any given moment there can be only a |
| called "unlimited" shared hosting. You can host as | | | | specified number of requests for your websites. |
| many domains as you would like, you can use | | | | You can host few hundred domains but only, for |
| unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. All of | | | | example, 25 websites can be accessed |
| this for a small monthly fee. Too good to be | | | | simultaneously. In general this is not a problem |
| true? | | | | because each process lasts for only a short |
| It is true if you understand the physical limitations. | | | | period of time. The number of processes is limited |
| You will still be able to host many domains and | | | | because there are also other users that have |
| use quite a lot of disk space, but at some point | | | | websites on this server and each user expects |
| you will reach physical limitations of the web | | | | some responsiveness of the web server. Of |
| server. Web server is a computer, a machine | | | | course, this applies only to shared hosting. If you |
| with limited resources. And those resources are | | | | are using a dedicated server then you can use all |
| shared among many websites, not just yours. | | | | of the available resources. |
| This means that you have to understand that | | | | The conclusion is that "unlimited hosting" really |
| there are some limits but in most cases your | | | | means hosting of quite a lot of websites. If you |
| hosting will not be limited. | | | | will run standard websites which will not have |
| The number of domains you will be able to host is | | | | heavy traffic you will never have problems with |
| pretty high. This number itself is limited by the | | | | any limitation. |
| physical size of the server disk and the number | | | | |