Are you looking to start your own website? Do you want online space? A web host can give you the online space you need for your website. Web hosts provide web space on a server they own themselves. Such a server will thus have many individuals sharing the web space. You can thus make use of the online space and create your website. Web hosts provide different kinds of web hosting services such as shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting, managed web hosting, reseller web hosting, etc.

As the name suggests, with shared hosting online space is shared between individuals on the same server. Many such websites will be placed on a server and you will be a part of them.

Shared web hosting is in two main types:

Free shared web hosting: Such a type of shared web hosting gives you online space for free. For someone who wants to experiment new ideas and learn details about website building, free shared web hosting is a good option. However such a web hosting kind may not provide you with MySQL databases and PHP support.

Paid shared web hosting: Here, you are given web space for a cost. Unlike free shared hosting, paid shared hosting almost certainly comes with MySQL and PHP features. One thus gets web space on a powerful and well administered server.

Let us have a look at a few advantages and disadvantages of shared web hosting.

Advantages:

- It costs you less

- You get an administered server

- It comes with multiple e-mail, MySQL and PHP support

- You are not required to have technical knowledge. The web host company administers the server

Disadvantages:

- The web space you get and your site is less secure

- Sometimes you might encounter limited connectivity based on the other websites bandwidth usage

- You can not use your own software and can use only the one provided by the web host.

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