Pros and Cons of Shared Hosting
The basic plans you would find on the websites of hosting companies are all shared hosting. The other option is dedicated hosting. Dedicated hosting is expensive and it is also more secured. It is an exclusive service. Shared hosting is the more realistic option for most small to medium businesses. Let us explore the pros and cons of shared hosting.
Advantages of Shared Hosting
• You can host a website for less than ten dollars a month. There are some plans that cost just a dollar per month. Such hosting plans exist because of shared servers. Else, you would be expected to pay exponentially more.
• Small to medium businesses don’t always need dedicated hosting. When we talk of a typical server or hard disk, small business websites will almost never use the entire infrastructure or the specifications at its disposal. It is better to utilize the unused infrastructure and reduce the costs in the process than to have it go waste compelling one company to pay an exorbitant fee for it.
• Shared hosting meets the demands of small businesses and there is a plethora of options pertaining to all features. Shared hosting doesn’t limit the availability of a website, it doesn’t affect the email support, website templates and building tools are there, databases and plug-ins along with content management system, control panel and all such necessary features are ensured. Shared hosting is not a compromise by any means which will affect a website or how a company runs its website. Shared hosting offers administrative access to the control panel. Depending on the plan you have, you could make unlimited changes or updates to the website as well.
Disadvantages of Shared Hosting
• The biggest shortcoming of shared hosting is security. Your website will have the same level of security or lack of it as other websites hosted on the same server. Shared hosting is not unsecured but it is less secured than dedicated hosting.
• There is a tussle for space and bandwidth. Since the same server and the same net bandwidth would be used by multiple websites, one heavy website will create space crunch for other websites, a very active site or one that is incurring a lot of traffic at the moment will squeeze the bandwidth and affect the performance of the other websites using the same infrastructure and there are other accessibility issues as well.
• Shared hosting is not exclusive and hence there is no special attention. Customer service and uptime are among the two most important issues with shared hosting. However, if you opt for a good plan and a credible host, then you can avert all these shortcomings.
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