Simple Explanation: What is Shared Hosting?

Shared Hosting is the basic hosting service where most of the people choose. In general words, it is called as webhosting. Name itself says 'Shared Hosting' that means the hosting service which we are buying is shared by many other customers who buy shared hosting service as we bought.

A single server is shared by many people by which cost of maintaining the server is reduced and shared between other customers and eventually low price for everyone.

Pro's of Shared Hosting:

• First and important pro, less hosting charges. ( Hostgator and Bluehost are offering Shared Hosting for minimum charges)

• Easy to understand Control Panel for controlling our Bandwidth, Programs, Email accounts, Database and Other important factors.

• All are easy to setup and easy to use with one click installation of programs and scripts.

• No need of performing Technical maintenance.

Con's of Shared Hosting:

• As it is Shared Hosting, all the features are limited to the shared customer.

• We will have limited Bandwidth, Limited Storage, Limited Email accounts (We can buy later!), Limited traffic.

• RAM, CPU of a server are shared between many users so, sometimes our hosting service may be slow. Sometimes only!

Who Should Buy Shared Hosting?

• If you starting a new blog or website with low budget.

• For small and medium companies.

• Most useful for Personal blogs.

Who Should not Buy Shared Hosting?

• If you are Starting BIG!

• From starting on wards you will get high traffic.

• For Large and Extra large companies.

Conclusion:

If you are planing to create a personal blog like me, you have to choose Shared hosting. Best hosting for average person with low budget and no knowledge about hosting or any other information related to blogging.

Note: Even in Shared Hosting you will get Unlimited Domain Hosting, Unlimited Storage, Automated Backups, 24/7 Customer support and many more for Bluehost, Hostgator and DreamHost webhosting services.