Shortcomings of Shared Web Hosting

The procedure of online web hosting is widely dependent upon its web hosts. It is advisable for the users to be assured about the services a specific web host is providing. The efficiency of a website is dependent upon the quality of hosting plans. VPS hosting, Co-location, Managed, Reseller and Shared hosting are some of the widely used Categories of web hosting.

These hosting plans are reasonable, as a result they are considered quite beneficial to a numerous users. As a small or medium size websites are very much affected by price, hence this sector considers web hosting as a popular means of website growth.

As, on one hand, there are a large number of users who consider online web hosting as a gift and on the other hand, there is a crowd which considers this as in-convenient.

Certain disadvantages that a Shared Web Hosting Plan follows are mentioned below. See for yourself :-

Firstly, as a single server is used, in order to keep the online existence of many websites, hence the security issues of personal information might be not acceptable. Sharing of personal information, through a single server, may result in its exploitation and lead to extensive loss in both personal and professional areas.

Secondly the single server, catering the queries of a number of websites, becomes slow and delay in response to the websites hinders the growth of the web hosting. The simple reason of this delay in response is because of the dependence of all the shared websites on a single server, resulting in congestion. A good scheduling of the activities of the server assures less delay in response to the web hosts, and the websites become more efficient.

As various websites are hosted by a single shared server, this jamming may result in improper working of websites among each other. For every server there is a specified value, considered as its limit, of the number of websites a server can host. Overloading in server might occur when this limit value is crossed, further complicating the working of websites. Also in some cases this overloading leads to shutdown of the server as well as all of the websites.

Most authenticated and secure frameworks avoid any risk of attack from a spammer. As the shared plans are quite common among large masses, hence they can be easily targeted.

Further complicating the use of shared hosting plans is the improper access of the websites to the server. The user cannot get to take advantage of the server effectively as he will not be able to gain complete control over it.