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Shared Hosting And Its Major Weaknesses

February 3rd, 2010 by Security Guru · No Comments

Nowadays shared web hosting is one of the most popular hosting plans, because its price is low and it is now available for any average web-users. Shared web hosting comes with many of the main and important features which are important for web users. Shared web hosting became favorite web hosting for most of the web users today.

Now let’s review some of the main weaknesses of shared web hosting;

1. With shared web hosting monthly fee is lower in comparison to a dedicated web hosting plan as users need to share the same server with many other users. Therefore, shared web hosting does not enable you with complete privacy because any possible slackness of data stored can lead to potential customer personnel data leakage.

2. The amount of allocated disk space on the shared web server for every customer is determined and limited. If you would like to share or install big files for your web site, you can easily run out bandwidth and disc space and this make it difficult to support your online business.

3. If there are some problems in the online traffic to any of the website which is located on the same server, other users on the same server will be affected because a definite web site should hog on to extra bandwidth form the server to assist the increased online traffic. When it occurs, the performance of other web sites will be also influenced. These users` websites will experience downtimes. However, most of the web host will repay a proportionate of the monthly fees to their clients as compensation for eventual server downtime. But, nothing can substitute the loss in customer’s satisfaction and their trust to the web hosting they have chosen. In the end, increasing number of customers will terminate their contract with the web hosting company and shift to other web hosting provider.

4. The set amount of CPU will be probably not enough for your web site in the future, if you use this web site for your online business because you need a greater CPU cycles if the amount of your online traffic increases together with your developing business.

5. Many of these shared web hosting limit the number of emails to be sent by any single account owner each hour. It is a significant constraint for users who want to generate often emails automatically to their vendors or business associates.

6. With a shared web hosting, no user is allowed the shared server to install or run any software or applications that you may need for your used web site. You can only use the software and applications provided by your web hosting company.

So, think over all the advantages and disadvantages of shared web hosting and make your own choice.

Make sure you do not drive your website into big troubles. It is your duty to choose the best web hosting.

This website hosting review blog will show you a fair picture of hosting industry: what hosts we used, where we failed and what we consider to be the best web hosting.

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