Whats the Difference Between Grid Hosting and Shared Hosting?

[orbixhost]

Can someone explain what the difference is between Grid hosting and Shared Hosting? Much Appreciated.

[jimmy13]

Hello Friends.....

The main difference between shared web hosting and grid hosting is scalability. Shared hosts have fixed capacities. It is somewhat ironic that popular sites on the shared host are punished and may face temporary unavailability of web content. There is no such thing as fixed capacity on grid hosting. An unknown site on a grid host may consume fewer resources. Over time, the same site may gain popularity but the site is allowed to increase its utilization of the grid’s computing resources

Thanks

[Lovely]

Grid hosting usually means that the web space you rent is not located on one (potentially shared) machine, but is more like a "virtual machine" (think VMware) which is hosted on a cluster of servers (a grid) and Shared hosting, sometimes called shared services or virtual hosting, is simply when multiple web sites share the same server, thus reducing the cost for everyone.

[kinah1]

An unknown site on a grid host may consume fewer resources. Over time

[addaminsane]

Grid hosting is when you have a site that bounces around several serviers, shared is when you're sharing server space on one server with hundreds of other users typically.

[calvinklein]

Shared Hosting in addition to your primary domain, you can host additional domains on a single Windows or Linux shared hosting account. Our deluxe and Unlimited Hosting plans allow you to point additional domains to any content subdirectory. Domains added to Economy hosting plans can point to the hosting root directory, only.
Due to differences in a Grid webhosting it cannot offer support for some of the technologies that Shared Hosting can.

[sjohn]

The main difference between shared web hosting and grid hosting is scalability. t is somewhat ironic that popular sites on the shared host are punished and may face temporary unavailability of web content.A cost effective alternative to shared web hosting is grid hosting. A grid is composed of over the counter computers connected to a network.

[Rastet123]

Grid hosting usually means that the web space you rent is not located on one (potentially shared) machine, but is more like a "virtual machine" (think VMware) which is hosted on a cluster of servers (a grid) and Shared hosting, sometimes called shared services or virtual hosting, is simply when multiple web sites share the same server, thus reducing the cost for everyone.

thanks for useful info.