Shared web hosting is the most widely used type of hosting and is considered the cheapest and most user-friendly web hosting service. In this lesson from the Best Hosting website, we will explain to you what Shared Web Hosting is and how it works in detail and without complications. We will also share with you some factors that will help you buy the best shared web hosting easily and at the lowest possible price.

Shared hosting is one of the most popular and widely used website hosting products and services in which server resources are shared among multiple accounts or users of the hosting service.

Just as resources are shared, so are financial costs and that is why shared or shared web hosting is affordable and easy to use for most small and medium websites.

In this web hosting lesson, we will explain to you on the Best Hosting website the shared web hosting service, how it works, and its uses, in addition to how to choose the best shared hosting service from among the huge number of shared web hosting services available in the market.

How does shared hosting work?

You must be asking: How does shared web hosting work? Or how does it work?

As the name suggests, shared hosting works on the principle of sharing .

There is no secret sauce or special technical or non-technical issues in shared hosting. A shared hosting user simply shares a server with other users. That shared hosting server runs software that manages the server’s resources such as processing power, storage capacity, RAM capacity, etc. which is set up, configured and maintained by the web hosting company that owns the server and sells the hosting service.

One of the most prominent of these companies is Bluehost, which is considered one of the largest and most famous shared hosting companies. There is also the European Hostinger , which is interested in providing low-cost hosting. It began its journey as a free web hosting company and is still providing this service, but through one of its affiliated companies.

The shared hosting company manages and allocates resources to each account or group of shared hosting accounts separately according to the hosting package that the account holder has purchased. Web hosting (companies) ensure that the accounts are isolated from each other as much as possible and do not interact with each other so that the accounts are not negatively affected by other accounts adjacent to them on the same server.

Shared hosting is like shared living!

At Best Hosting we like to give examples that are as close to the real world as possible. To give you a real life example of shared web hosting, we want you to imagine a residence for a moment and we will explain the similarities between it and this type of web hosting .

A shared hosting server is like a residential tower consisting of a number of floors, each floor containing a residential apartment “unit” or several apartments. In this example, the residential unit is like a shared hosting account.

Although each apartment owner owns his entire unit, the actual structure of the property (the residential tower), the land on which it is built, and the rest of the resources and services such as the elevator, utilities, stairs, etc. are not allocated to one owner alone, but are shared between the owners and residents as a common property.

Just as units differ from each other in terms of their area, location, view, amenities, etc., which results in differences in the unit price and cost, shared hosting accounts also differ in the share of resources and service price of each shared hosting account.

Just as an apartment owner can make some modifications and changes to his apartment as long as it does not affect the shared property or the property as a whole, a shared hosting account owner can also make the modifications he wants to his web hosting account as long as those modifications are within his account only and will not affect his other neighbors on the same server.

To ensure that the shared server runs smoothly and that accounts and users are not affected by each other, the hosting company takes some precautions. Since the accounts share the server’s resources, shared web hosting imposes some restrictions and sets certain usage rules for each hosting account to avoid all accounts being down if a specific account is down.

Uses of Shared Web Hosting

The vast majority of websites run on shared hosting, which is considered the cheapest and easiest to use website hosting service available, free of many of the complications that come with using a dedicated server or virtual private server (VPS) .

In addition to the low price, shared hosting is easy to use and control and often comes with an easy control panel such as cPanel, which is used by many well-known web hosting companies such as HostGator, which is one of the most prominent and oldest names in the market, and we also mention FastComet, which is a relatively new hosting that relies on providing Cloud Hosting managed using cPanel, and many other cPanel hosting companies.

Most shared hosting services are managed services, meaning that the hosting service provider (the company) manages the hosting for users. This includes setting up the server and hosting in terms of hardware and software, protecting the hosting, updating it continuously, improving performance, and resolving errors and problems that may arise.

Managed Web Hosting also comes with a technical support service from the hosting company that answers customer inquiries and solves hosting problems that they may face, and sometimes it may reach the point of fixing errors on the site itself. The most prominent examples of this are some WordPress hosting services that provide this level of advanced technical support to some customers.

FYI, WordPress is the most widely used CMS ever, powering more than a third of all websites. The Best Hosting team has published a comprehensive explanation of WordPress that we recommend you read.

All these factors and advantages have made using shared web hosting the most popular and widely used destination for anyone who wants to create a website on the Internet and wants the easiest and most affordable hosting services.

Shared hosting is not the only type!

Although shared hosting has many advantages and is suitable for a large segment of users and sites, it is not the only type, is not suitable for all sites, and does not meet the needs of all users.

As mentioned above, shared hosting is only suitable for small websites and is not suitable for a large website with tens of thousands of visitors daily or websites looking for the highest levels of security and performance. With sharing resources also comes the problem of bad neighbors who may affect the performance and security of your website hosted on the same server with them.

To learn about the different hosting services, the differences between them, and the advantages and disadvantages of each type, the Best Hosting team has prepared and published a comprehensive guide that compares the different types and services of website hosting in detail. We advise you to review it.

How to choose the best shared hosting?

Choosing a good hosting for your website is not an easy task, whether it is shared hosting, virtual private server, cloud hosting, or any other type. This was the main reason behind creating MYHOST, which is to help you choose the best hosting for your website easily and without hassle, even if you do not have sufficient knowledge of hosting services.

In general, when you are looking for shared hosting, these are the most important points that you will take into account:

• Hosting server resources available to you
  • CPU processing power is often measured in seconds or cores.
  • RAM
  • Disk Storage Space
  • Bandwidth
• Limits on your account usage
  • Number of sites allowed to be hosted on the same account
  • Number and size of databases allowed
  • Number of email accounts and capacity of each mailbox
  • Number of subdomains allowed
  • Number of files allowed to exist (Inodes)
• Customer Service and Technical Support
• The control panel used, ease of account management, and ease of hosting use.
• Hardware and software used in the server (processor type, storage media type, operating system, firewall and protection software, etc.)
• Free gifts and extras with your hosting package (such as free backup, free domain registration , etc.)

Despite the importance of these factors, there are many hosting companies, numbering in the thousands, and most of them offer the same resources at almost equal prices. However, the only fundamental difference and the most important from our point of view is the quality of the hosting service and whether you will actually get what the shared hosting company promises you after purchasing or not?

Therefore, at the Best Hosting website, we try out foreign global web hosting companies and test them for a long time and mention their advantages and disadvantages in the form of detailed reviews that you can find in the web hosting reviews section of our website.

We also compare the same service from different web hosting companies with each other and arrange them in a list for each use and publish those lists and rankings in the Best Web Hosting section so that you have a list of the most prominent companies that provide the hosting service you are looking for with details of the smallest package from each company and the advantages it offers and the disadvantages that may face you after purchasing.

Regarding shared hosting, we have prepared a list of the best foreign shared web hosting companies, the advantages and disadvantages of each company, the price and resources of the smallest package of service packages in detail. If you have any questions or inquiries or need help, you can leave it in a comment below and we will respond to it as soon as possible.