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Question: What is shared or virtual web hosting?

Answer by BestHost Ratings

Shared web hosting is when several web site are being hosted on the same server. This is the most common way (99% of the sites across the Internet are using shared web hosting servers) to host multiple sites on one and the same physical server. Unless your site is resource heavy and consumes a lot of bandwidth, space and CPU usage a shared hosting plan will be just fine for you. Although on a shared hosting server you will still be able to have your own IP if needed. Other options to host your site is going for a dedicated, manager or co-location hosting services.





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