QandAs: Tech

What is Shared Web Hosting?

Answer:
Shared web hosting is a basic type of web hosting.

Various websites are shared on a single server. Each site has a specific location on the server to separate it from the rest of the sites. This type of hosting may be less expensive than dedicated server hosting; however, it’s generally not capable of handling large amounts of storage or traffic.

The person responsible for the overall technical support of the service is usually a systems administrator and is employed or contracted by the hosting provider. Some hosting providers develop their own “in-house” control panels; however, most shared web hosting services utilize commercial control panels available for various operating systems such as Linux and Windows.

There are thousands of shared web hosting services available. Marketing for many shared web hosting providers is through affiliate programs and pay per click (PPC) advertising. Through cooperative hosting, a hosting service can share costs of running a server by colocating their equipment in a data center.