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Shared Hosting: What You Need To Know - By: Bill Wilson, Posted on: 2007-08-08

As ever increasing numbers of people, and businesses, begin to establish themselves online, an increasingly large number of hosts are becoming available. However, as with any other rapidly expanding market, it can be quite hard to determine which host is most suitable for your use.

Once you complete the process of domain name registration, you will necessarily turn your attention to web hosting options and alternatives. At the present time, a great number of individuals and businesses are turning to and utilizing shared hosting services when it comes to their Internet websites.

Like anything else online, or off, there are good points and bad points to consider when trying to decide whether or not to use shared hosting. You really need to learn what both side are, so that you can make an educated decision as to whether your business needs are best met with a shared host.

To start with, have a look at the different prices, as this may ultimately be a determining factor. Shared hosts are much less expensive then dedicated hosting, because you are only using a small part of the servers ability. I strongly advise against free hosting, for reasons of reliability, and so if you want good value shared hosting is the way to go.

Besides price, there is the issue of technical support. All shared hosts have good customer support, as this is one of the cornerstones of their business, and a major issue of competition between them. So if you don't have a lot of experience hosting a site, you might want a shared hosts, just because then you know it is run by someone who knows what they are doing.

Moreover, when it comes to shared hosting, you generally will be able to access supplemental services such as multiple email options and PHP support. Finally, you personally do not need to have extensive knowledge in regard to website hosting and server administration when you take the shared hosting approach.

There are, however, some negative aspects of shared hosting to consider as well. Maybe the biggest of these, is that a shared host will have less security, then is possible on a dedicated server. Because multiple individuals all have access to it at any time, there is a much increased risk of problems and security breaches.

Also, linked again to the fact that there are multiple users, is the problem of resource allocation. If there are a lot of high-power users on the system, this will have a detrimental effect on the ability of your site to run. As the memory and CPU of the host are limited, this naturally places some restrictions that are beyond your control, although they are usually not a problem.

Last, there is the problem of choice. While there are a lot of hosts to choose from, not all of them will have exactly the software you require, and if you later find you need a particular piece you will not be able to just install it, which you could if you owned the host yourself.

Having said all this, there are still a lot of people who choose shared hosting. This includes a significant proportion of people who use alternative systems, such as windows web hosting, virtual private servers (VPS), or exchange server hosting. So there are plenty of pros and cons to consider.

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