Shared hosting

Shared hosting is one of the most common and popular forms of Web hosting service. It is generally provided by Web hosting service providers, which usually have multiple Web servers on-site. Shared hosting may also be referred to as virtual shared hosting.

Shared Web Hosting means that one physical server and its available resources hosted are shared among many users. Actually, on the shared hosting platform each customer has his own limit on particular services like disk space, monthly traffic, email accounts, FTP accounts, databases etc. On the other hand, all performance resources on a physical machine (server) are shared. The RAM and CPU, the single Apache server, the single MySQL server and the single Mail server are on a shared basis.

Shared hosting is Web hosting in which the service provider serves pages for multiple Web sites, each having its own Internet domain name, from a single Web server.

Upon sign up with the provider, each website’s logical partition/space is created on the Web server, which houses data for that website only. Other websites are also present on the same Web server, simultaneously sharing the storage, computing power, network and other resources. Because it is a shared service, shared hosting is a cheaper alternate to dedicated hosting.

Shared hosting is recommended for websites that are smaller in size, don’t have a large amount of web traffic, have considerably lower security concerns and require cost-effective solutions for website hosting.