A shared web hosting is a type of web hosting which is suitable for the users who do not have much budget to own a server of their own, nor are they able to afford the expensive cost of leasing the server from the hosting provider at this stage.
Normally a shared web hosting is cheap because all the necessary cost such as the administrative and setup cost are largely bear by the large number of the users who are sharing the same server for their websites with you.
No doubt that the cost of a shared web hosting is cheaper than a dedicated web hosting, but the price should not be the only criteria when it comes to select the suitable web hosting service for your website use. While knowing that shared web host service is one of the most widely used hosting providers in the world today, we still cannot rule out the many drawbacks that this type of web hosting had.
a. Vulnerable against virus corruption – with hundreds and even thousands of users sharing the same server with you, if any of these websites get corrupted, there is a very high chance that your account will get affected because of the limitation of this kind of hosting with low privacy and lesser security control over this type of web host services.
b. With this type of hosting, never expect to get the same level or amount of bandwidth or data space features as from any dedicated web hosting provider. Because of the vast amount of the users that are sharing the same server with you, it is extremely difficult to get any additional bandwidth or disk space or a new domain name in time of needs.
c. In the case with a shared web hosting, there is a clear lack of flexibilities for any users in adding any new features or software for your websites. No one can simply add any applications to further enhance their websites or to the benefits of their online business. Any request for this will need to go through the approval process of the respective web service policy.
d. Through a shared hosting provider, no user has the anatomy to freely upgrade their applications at all and many people deemed these as a great road-block in improving their online business for they face the constraint in upgraded their websites with improved security features, install additional user-friendly tools, highly accessible features and lots of high technology tools and features which is the favorite of those who are computer savvy.
e. With shared web hosting, neighboring with many different web users may cause another potential risk as if any of these users do not pay close and well deserved attention to the guidelines and procedures of the server operation, you can anticipate for more unexpected downtime of the server which may impact thousands of others on the same server as you are.
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