Most webmasters, bloggers or Web Designers started off their career with a Shared Web Hosting Account. It’s the most economical way to get started with the building of any website or blog therefore most people choose to go with Shared hosting until they start getting thousands of visitors each day.
Under Shared hosting account, many users share the resources of a single web server and are responsible for paying the cost of that server’s maintenance. Normally several hundreds or thousands of Websites can be hosted on a same server. With most of the sites getting a few or few hundreds visitors each day.
Normally Shared hosting account costs less than US$10 per month, and Most of the shared hosting account come with famous CPanel which is the basic control panel to manage the tasks under your account and Script installer like ‘Fantastico‘ which would install any CMS Like Wordpress or Joomla on your Shared hosting account with a few mouse clicks.
Since Shared hosting account does not cost much so it is an ideal way to get started with to build a website or blog until it reaches the mark of thousands of visitor each day and outgrows the shared hosting environment. And Later you can of course migrate to VPS (Virtual Private Hosting) which we would explain in another article.
So Shared Hosting is ideal for small or new Websites because of low costs as well as it’s totally managed environment by your Web hosts, in case you run into any sort of issue you can get it resolved by opening a ticket. BlueHost, HostGator and DreamHost are some of the Most popular Shared Hosting providers with hundred and thousands of websites hosted on their servers. So if you are looking to get into Webmasters world and want to start a Fresh New Website or Blog i would recommend you shared hosting to get started with which would help you learn further and grow your site while keeping your cost low.
Further Reading: What is VPS or Virtual Private Server hosting account ?
