Shared hosting
Is the most widespread type of hosting solution on the market.
This kind of hosting is achieved by dividing a physical server into partitions and spreading them among the users. Being the cheapest due to the limit set on the number of resources any one user can use at the same time. For small projects, with traffic of 1000 users or less, it’ll be more than enough. But in turn, you get a fully operational hosting account. When choosing a provider, you should take notice of those that include useful and vital tools like:
- Control panel - a common way to manage your hosting service package. With it, you could manage domain addresses, install additional features, create and manage email accounts, upload website files. These are the most popular control panels: cPanel( Linux), Plesk (Linux/Windows), DirectAdmin (Linux), ISPmanager (Linux);
- СMS (Content management system) - Platforms that allow you to create, change and manage a website with its content. The main feature of CMS is the ability to show how would a site look from a user's point of view. Well-known CMS are WordPress, Magento, and Drupal;
- Safety - Using software like Cloudflare provides a defense against DDoS attacks and ensures stable site function. By installing an SSL certificate on your website or antivirus software that scans for viruses, malware, or any unauthorized access you can provide your project with various levels of security.
It is also one of the well-used hosting types due to relatively low skill requirements to work with. The provider is responsible for managing your server, setting it up, monitoring, updating databases, checking and improving accessibility status, providing security, maintaining antiviruses, preventing unauthorized access, and keeping the database secure.
You should understand that you’re only “renting” a part of the server, and you’ll share it between other users no matter what type of website you run, be it a blog, database or just a business card site. There must, and will be limited to that type of hosting, because, should a user with whom you share a server decide to use too much of its resources, they will cripple the productivity of each and every website that is currently running on the same server. So beware of providers that promise a shared plan with no resource limitation, instead, what you should look for is a provider with a clear and reasonable resource margin. This is the only way to regulate resources in use, making the life of everyone sharing the server easier. It will be even better if the provider offers you a trial period so you could get an estimate of service quality and speed.
