Shared Web Hosting

Shared Web Hosting is by far the most popular way of website hosting. When many clients of a web hosting provider share one server of this provider it's called: "Shared Web Hosting". You as a customer rent just a piece of a complete server. So, hundreds or even thousands of websites will be hosted on one server. You not only share the server itself, but maybe more important for you and me, you share also the cost of the whole server with the other clients on the same server. This is why web hosting providers can offer affordable web hosting plans for anybody. The best web hosting providers with the best services can offer shared web hosting plans starting at $4.95 per month.

Is Shared Web Hosting the best option for me?

In 99% of all cases Shared Web Hosting will be the best option for you. If you only want to host personal websites or blogs, small business websites or even medium sized business sites, Shared Web Hosting will offer in most cases what you need to get and keep your website on the Internet successfully.

You share the same resources like RAM, disk space and CPU with all the other users of the server. Each website uses what it needs. When you are at the point that your website needs more RAM, disk space or CPU, you can upgrade to a higher level of shared web hosting. The better hosting providers will allow you to subscribe to shared web hosting plans that are "scale-able" or upgradeable.
This makes it possible for you to start small and cheap and you can grow step-by-step at the moments your website needs more RAM, disk space or CPU.

What can a Web Hosting Provider do for me?

As already mentioned you can rent a piece of a server from a web hosting provider to host your website. But the better web hosting providers can do a lot more for you.
The better providers will offer you a very easy to use Control Panel to manage your complete website.
You will have full control of your website hosted on the server but the web hosting provider will take care for the maintenance of the server.
The very most important service a web hosting provider can offer is the 24/7 technical customer support. Sure you will get moments that you don't know what to do. It's important to know that you have a good web hosting provider that will offer you help at any time.