Question: What is shared or virtual web hosting?
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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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