Before starting out as a webmaster one should be knowledgeable about the different types of servers available in the market. The most common and good hosting for starting with web development is Shared Hosting Service. In shared hosting multiple websites are hosted on a single server. It means that all the resources (like bandwidth, Memory, Disk, Processor and FTP etc) on the server are shared between the websites hosted on it.
On shared server there is no limit of websites to be hosted on it. One server could host tens, hundreds or even thousands of websites on it and the maintenance costs for it are very cheap. This is the main reason for shared hosting to be affordable and cheapest of all hosting servers.
Now let's discuss the Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Servers.
Advantages of using Shared Hosting Server
Using a Shared Hosting comes with a lot of benefits, some of which are described below:
- The main advantage of using shared server is the cheap and affordable rates everywhere when you are just trying to publish a website and do not have the capital to use a more expensive hosting service. Best for startups, personal blogger and small business.
- All the technical aspects of the server maintenance are handled by the hosting provider, you are not to concern yourself with any kind of technical details and can completely focus on your website.
- You are provided with an easy-to-use admin panel (cPanel) for the easier management of your website. It is a user-friendly application by with you could manage your website without the need of learning technicalities of the web publishing.
- While in shared hosting different web services are hosted alongside your website and the server administration provides supervision, maintenance and technical support to keep all the hosted sites available with high uptime reliability which is comparable to almost any other hosting server.
Disadvantages of using Shared Hosting Server
Despite having a number of advantages shared hosting servers have many disadvantages too.- The top of the list of disadvantages is the security risks that Shared Servers face. These are prone to hacking attacks. Hacking/Malicious activities on the server effects all the hosted websites.
- Your site will get slow if other sites are more popular and more accessed. Since all resources are being shared by all the websites on the server the more the other sites are accessed the adverse the performance of your website will become.
- The server might stop working due to number of requests coming swamps the server resources.
- You cannot modify the capacities or softwares that are on the server and have to make do with what your hosting provider offers on the shared server.
- If you need to be able to install additional software/apps on the server which might be needed for your provided services you would have to upgrade to different hosting plan and move to more customizable server than shared server.
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