Shared hosting is a type of web hosting where a single physical server hosts multiple sites. Many users utilize the resources on a single server, which keeps generally the most economical option for hosting, as the overall cost of server maintenance is spread over many customers. Users each get a section of a server in which they can host their website files. Shared servers can hosts hundreds of users. This is recommended only for Small Size Informative Websites and not recommended for huge content webs such as – ecommerce sites, News Portals, Web Applications etc..
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