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Why You Should Choose Shared Hosting – HostNamaste.com<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019re planning to start a website, then you\u2019re probably looking into the different options for web hosting. There are a number of articles on this that you can read online. However, most if not all of these articles will recommend an option called \u201cshared hosting.\u201d But what exactly is shared hosting?<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll discuss the basics of shared hosting and how shared hosting differentiates itself from other web hosting options. By the end of the article, you should be able to have a thorough understanding of shared hosting and learn why it is considered by many to be the best web hosting option currently available.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Web Hosting?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Web hosting is a service that provides website owners with a virtual space to store and access their data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Literally, every piece of information on the internet is stored on a server somewhere on the planet. Web hosts own and maintain these servers, incurring all the trouble and costs related thereto. However, there is a limit to how much data each server can store. Every bit of data occupies a piece of limited virtual space. This makes virtual space valuable. Thus, web hosting is often provided for free, so that web hosts can have enough money to maintain and upgrade their servers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that sense, web hosting is very similar to renting out a piece of property. Website owners pay the web host to store their data on its servers. \u00a0The website owner is the tenant; the website data is the tenant\u2019s property; the web host is the landlord; the virtual space in the server is the leased property.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that you know what web hosting is, let\u2019s talk about shared hosting<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Shared Hosting?<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

There are a lot of choices when it comes to web hosting or getting your website online.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first option is self-hosting. This basically entails buying, maintaining, and operating as your own web host. While this gives you full control over the web hosting process, the sheer amount of resources involved in this option makes it less cost-effective than the ones that follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second option is dedicated hosting. In dedicated hosting, one particular server of the web host is \u201cdedicated\u201d to your data. In other words, you\u2019ll be leasing out an entire server operated by a web host, so that you can enjoy exclusive rights to all the virtual space on that server. This option provides you with increased control over the web hosting process (more particularly, it improves the security of your data), but is still rather pricey when compared to the next option.<\/span><\/p>\n

The third option is shared hosting. Shared hosting, as the name implies, means that you share the virtual space with other people on one or more servers of your web host. Although you\u2019re sharing storage space, every user will only have access to the data they stored. Other highlights of shared hosting are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n