This
is the most common Types of web hosting. In the previous section we talked
about cheap web hosting; this is more of shared web hosting offered cheap
through some compromise on features or tech support. Here we are
looking at standard shared hosting with full features.
With shared hosting, your
web site is hosted on a powerful server along with many other web sites. On
a shared host it is common that each web site have their own domain name.
You might or might not be allowed a static IP address and the features and
the price vary widely.
Shared solutions often offer
multiple features like email, database, and many more options.
Technical support tends to be good.
Shared web hosting example hosts:
Tierranet
| Webhost4life |
Lunarpages
Advantages /
disadvantages of shared web hosting.
|
Good: |
Bad: |
|
Low cost. As we
mentioned wide variation is seen in the cost. An evaluation is often
needed to ascertain the right host. |
Difficulty in judging
the tech support quality is the primary issue here. It’s great with some and
very hard to obtain with some others. Landing in the right host can be
plain lucky. |
|
Good for small
& large businesses and traffic. Price vary widely as per traffic &
features chosen. |
Often they impose
restrictions on traffic volume.
However, this is not an issue for most moderate
traffic sites. |
|
Multiple feature
options. |
Database support is not
wide ranging. |
|
Own domain name
can be used to host site. |
Security may be
compromised due to many sites being hosted on one server. |
|
Tech support is
available and it is often very satisfactory. |
Since all sites are
hosted on one server if any site has a bad code etc... Whole server may
be affected. If any site has huge traffic, others can be
affected. However with good hosting company’s everything is monitored
and remedial action taken, round the clock. |
Summary:
You must understand that shared web hosting is what you are
buying most often when you are in the market for web hosting schemes. This is, as we
mentioned the most common and popular method for web hosting. This is also a
simple method as buying and beginning the process of web hosting is made
very simple.
There are literally thousands of providers for shared web hosting. It is safe to
go with some well known names and we urge you to gather basic idea about
reputation through
alexa tool bar rank of the site.
However they can only tell you
the sites popularity on the Internet. However that’s often a good enough
indication of how good the organization could be.
Next :
Dedicated Web Hosting
