People who are building a website will always come to a point where he or she needs to get a web hosting service to host the website. Confusions strike in when they find out there are different type of hosting including shared hosting, dedicated hosting and reseller hosting. People confuse wondering which type of hosting should they go with. This article will tell you more about shared hosting and its specialty in order to give you a better idea in your decision making.
For your information, shared hosting like what the name speaks is shared among subscribers. For example when 2 people sign up for a shared hosting, they will host in the same physical server sharing the same IP address however their accounts are separated using software. Each of them will not be able to access the other account. So it looks like the account is independent. The service providers have kind of partitioned the storage space into 2 slots for 2 different accounts. Same theory applies when the same server has 1,000 subscribers.
You will wonder how the computer identify the correct website when internet users want to access the website hosted in shared hosting since there is only 1 IP address. When a user requests a website by typing the web address in to browser, it will send the request to the server through IP address and the catch is hostname of the website will be sent together as part of the request too. Therefore with IP address and the hostname the browser can determine which website you want to access. Shared hosting definitely has its strength and weakness.
Strength
In term of strength, shared hosting has very strong stand in pricing. As many people are sharing the same physical server the cost has been distributed evenly. The monthly subscription fee can be as low as $4.95/month and this price is easily available everywhere. This definitely fulfills the cost effectiveness of a website. Although shared hosting is cheaper than other type of hosting that does not mean it has low quality. Instead it is an ideal hosting for many webmasters. They build websites on shared hosting to run their business. Of cause the quality still rely on the proper management of hosting providers. As discussed in most of the articles, the reputation of a hosting provider is very important in this case. Thus I always go with big hosting companies like Hostgator, Lunarpages and Bluehost. Their organized management is powerful enough to maintain the quality of their shared hosting.
Weaknesses
In term of weaknesses, users share the server among themselves. Sharing is still sharing. When there is irresponsible user in the sharing group, the way the fellow uses the hosting will jeopardize other accounts too. For example if a website that has very big traffic volume is hosted, the access of other website in the same server might be affected because that particular website has drawn most of the resources of the server. Although you do not know which website or account that is causing the problem, the negative effect is still visible. Therefore in this case a good hosting company will kick in and warn the users on the usage. Shared hosting has no dedicated IP for your website too. Therefore if the Domain Name Server is down (your domain name is not functional due to whatever reasons) you will not be able to access your website using just IP address like [http://127.0.0.1] because the server will confused not knowing which website to show up. Also it is not possible to have dedicated SSL to your website because SSL works on IP. Since your IP is shared, the same SSL scripting will be shared among other subscribers too. However SSL sharing does not mean it will degrade the security of SSL but instead you have less control on the script.
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