Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is a cheaper hosting option for businesses with new websites and web applications.

If you don’t know how many users (web traffic) will be accessing your website, rather than purchasing higher end hosting like dedicated servers and cloud hosting you can set up your website and web application on Shared hosting.

These days the options available are usually pretty good with regards to bandwidth allowance, the hosting company will allow unlimited access to your website for a small but reasonable price. However, from a performance point of view at some level of use you will need to move to a better hosting option.

With shared hosting you get various options in terms of how many websites you can host within the hosting package as well as limitations on the amount of database etc. You don’t get as much control over what software is installed on the server and there are some administrative restrictions as well.

Email hosting is usually as standard but there will be limits on how much storage space is allowed. With email though, you can usually setup the hosting so that you download your emails to a client like Microsoft Outlook. After download, you can setup the email hosting to delete the emails on the hosting server. This will help keep the storage space usage to a low level.

Other facilities like FTP and Admin systems are usually included. Hosting companies usually have their own web-based admin systems available, so you can administrate your website, domain name, and email settings.

You should always check whether the scripting and code components that you require to help your code base work are available within the server setup before purchasing the hosting.

We can help move you to a suitable shared hosting platform and offer you advice on how best to get this done to suit your business needs. We can setup your domain and business email addresses as well.

If you would like to discuss shared website hosting for your business and how we can help with your needs, please send us some information about your requirements using our contact form.