Shared Hosting: What Does It Give You, and Is It Enough?
With a shared hosting account, you are given access to a variety of services, which by themselves would be expensive, but due to the “sharing the cost” feature of hosting a website with a common server, you are able to give yourself many options.
These options include such benefits as disk space to store your data, a data transfer feature and email accounts for each website you have on the shared server. The server company also provides you, the user, with a secure site and support from trained staff, who are just a phone call away.
The majority of servers are built around a solid foundation, which revolves around the Linux operating system (this is free, and an open source software collaboration for the benefit of all users) which helps keep your costs down.
You have to be aware of the fact that should the hosting service prove exceptionally popular, you may find all the websites linked to the server have to compete for the available resources from the one server. This may result in a slow download speed for your website.
