In the world of web hosting, the starting step is the shared hosting, which is meant to include many small and medium sites on one server, so that the hosted sites share the resources of the hosting server, from memory, storage capacity, data processing capacity and data transfer rate.
Depending on the average size of those sites and the strength of the hosting server's specifications, hosting companies can service hundreds and thousands of clients on a single server.
This sharing leads to reducing the total cost of hosting, and reducing the cost in turn leads to an increase in the number of users, and this in turn leads to an increase in the popularity of this method of hosting among the general user
Shared hosting features:
1 - Low cost, as sharing server resources makes the one site share of the cost small.
2 - The ability to subscribe for a short period and to upgrade to the top or bottom according to the need of each customer.
3 - It does not require spending a long time managing it, which makes it the best choice for busy website owners.
4 - Does not require monitoring the server or operating system or upgrading and solving its problems, the hosting company handles all of this.
5 - In general, the problems of shared hosting are simpler and can be solved faster compared to other hosting methods.
6 - Does not require having advanced knowledge and previous experience of the techniques necessary to understand the mechanism of hosting plans.
Disadvantages of shared hosting:
1 - The administrator of the system cannot be obtained, which is necessary to install and run some applications.
2- It sets limits that cannot be exceeded in terms of storage capacity, processing, memory consumption, or monthly data transfer rate.
3 - Because the resources are common, in the event that these resources are misused by a site, this negatively affects all sites hosted on the server.
4 - Because of the sharing of the IP number, if a site on this server obtains an entry ban for some countries, all sites hosted on the same IP number will automatically be blocked, and this problem can only be solved by changing the server or changing the hosting company.
5 - The hosting company promotes all versions of applications running on the server periodically, and these upgrades may stop the work of some old scripts, which means the need to upgrade all scripts used by customers to avoid compatibility problems, which is not always available.
6 - It is not suitable for sites that deal in large files such as high-quality images, videos, or forums with medium numbers of topics and subscribers.
