Shared Hosting: advantages and disadvantages
Let’s clear up doubts with this article to know in depth what a Web Hosting can provide us.
The shared hosting service is mainly recommended for new projects, blogs, corporate websites and online stores that do not require massive data storage or special server configurations.
What is shared hosting?
Shared web hosting is the type of service in which both software and hardware resources of a server are shared.
That is, you use a private and exclusive space within that server where you are assigned a percentage of resources to use depending on the service you have contracted with your hosting provider.
These shared resources are: operating system, server IP, RAM memory, disk space, bandwidth, monthly transfer and availability (Uptime).
Let’s see an example: A hotel with many rooms = Server with many hosting accounts.
In that hotel you buy a space (hosting) that has its own advantages: having a room and in that room you can host more than one person depending on the benefits you have available (multidomains).
You can scale according to your needs since there are small and large rooms.
Your hotelier has to make sure that you are comfortable and safe in your room.
In elastic hosting the same thing happens: your provider has to foresee infections, attacks and give you a fast service (fast servers) so that you can sleep peacefully.
BENEFITS
Advantages of shared web hosting
Easy to use
It is not necessary to have advanced knowledge to start with your web project because this type of service makes it easy for you to manage the applications through control panels or private client access where you yourself will have full control of your files and services.
Affordable price
It is the most economical type of service we have in Webempresa.
With it you can start with the development of your website at a very affordable price really hiring what you need to work with your digital project.
Don’t think about it too much!
Scalable
The shared hosting service allows you to start with a basic plan and scale according to your needs without any service interruption. If it is a new project you do not necessarily have to hire a plan with many resources, as your project grows you can go scaling.
Technical support
Most hosting providers offer a technical service for the management of your shared web hosting service, emails and domains. In addition to that, some offer support on the applications for which their servers are optimized.
They are multi-domain
This feature will depend on your provider but most of them allow you to host more than one web site in the same hosting plan taking into account the disk space, monthly transfer and resources allocated in your contracted plan.
Management and maintenance of the server
In this sense, you don’t have to worry about anything, since both your hosting provider and Webempresa will take care of the maintenance and updating of the server so that you can work on your project with complete peace of mind.
INCONVENIENCES
Disadvantages of shared web hosting
Excess consumption
Or bad intentions of other users. Some providers do not have the necessary security measures in place (such as the account isolation that exists in Webempresa), so that if there is any failure or excess consumption by other users, this can affect the rest of the accounts hosted on that server.
Software y hardware compartido
Shared software and hardware
the operating system, the disk space, the monthly transfer or the server IP (among many others), are shared with the rest of the users that use the shared web hosting service to host their web projects.
Limited resources
Most hosting providers do not allow you to customize a plan according to your needs.
Each provider has resource limitations on RAM, CPU, email accounts, databases, database size, disk space and monthly transfer..
Security Failure
It is possible that in a specific event there is a security failure at the server level, power outage, hacking, among others.
In this case, all the websites hosted on the server will be affected.
Configuration customization
This option to customize the settings of the server you use to host your website is not available to you because any change made on the server may affect other users.
Responsibility
Responsibility does not always depend on your hosting provider, you must take security measures on your own so that your website is not vulnerable to attacks through the installation of plugins or malicious code.
Conclusions
In short, you should take into account a series of characteristics when hiring your shared hosting provider:
- Excellent quality/price ratio.
- Automatic installation of web development applications.
- Backup system.
- You must make sure that it is an elastic hosting service, where you do not have to worry about the growth of your project.
- 24-hour technical support: it is very important because at any time an incident or failure may occur with your website and you need help from a professional.
- Security measures implemented at the server level, such as the caging of accounts (serves to ensure that the consumption of resources does not affect the other hosting accounts), antivirus system, installation of SSL certificates.
- That incorporates SSD disks to minimize failures and increase the speed of your website.
- That it provides you with extra tools for the optimization of your website and allows you to get the most out of your project.
- Documentation: it is very important that your provider has its own blog, guides or tutorials so that you can look for solutions on your own.
Remember that before hiring your shared web hosting service it is very important that you define the needs of your web project and which hosting provider meets the necessary resources, mainly disk space, monthly transfer and support.
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