shared hosting
Shared hosting is the most affordable web hosting solution. It is perfect for smaller websites and for people who own multiple small sites. Basically, you are sharing the web server with other websites. That means all sites on that server share an IP address (sometimes you may have a unique IP), memory, hard disk space, bandwidth and processor power.
The web server administrator (web hosting company) allocates disk space and bandwidth to each account on the shared server. This is then your allocation. You will pay a price according to how much disk space and bandwidth you require on a monthly basis.
The benefits of shared web hosting are low cost. The down side is that you have less bandwidth and share this with other people or websites. At the point that your website starts to get very popular and you notice the site loading slowly and not being able to keep up with traffic demands, it is then time to get a dedicated server for your site.
Most web hosting companies offer well priced shared hosting plans and you can buy them for as little as $3 per month for small bandwidth sites.
