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What are the disadvantages of Shared hosting? and please mention its limitations?
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Despite the number of advantages that shared hosting plans bring to their clients, it also has its share of disadvantages. These are the common disadvantages of shared hosting plans:
- The biggest disadvantage of shared hosting is the security issues that the server faces.
o Shared servers are usually prone to hacking attacks.
o Any malicious activity that the server suffers affects the whole network of websites using the server. - As you need to share the resources of a single server, your website my often experience sluggishness brought about by the request for resources by other sites.
- You may experience resource limitation as everybody else in the network uses the same CPU, memory and hard drive.
- Server may get swamped by requests or overloaded which might cause it to stop.
- Your hosting plan may have lesser features compared to dedicated hosting plans.
- You do not have the choice over the software and application that you want to use as you cannot use any other software aside from what is provided by the hosting provider.
- The customer support may not be as good as those of dedicated plans.
- Because of security policy, some available port and connections may be limited.
- The biggest disadvantage of shared hosting is the security issues that the server faces.
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A shared hosting plan hosts multiple accounts on a single dedicated IP address. They are usually used to save costs and space for hosting. Shared hosting is not very recommendable as they do not provide data security as the same space and IP address is shared between multiple clients.Comment
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Tnx for this great information.Comment
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First disadvantage of shared hiringh is lack of security, when you use shared hosting then there will be more chances of website hack like injecting malicious code.
Shared housing lies on single server so it is limited to a particular Geo location. Shared housing can withstand till to some extent only, once it reaches bandwidth meeter then it does open.Comment
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There are various limitations of Shared Hosting are as follows:
1. System Crushes
2. Performance Problem
3. Security
4. Security issues that the server faces.
5. The server may get swamped by request or overloaded which might cause it to stop.Comment
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The biggest disadvantage of shared hosting is the security issues that the server faces. Shared servers are usually prone to hacking attacks. Any malicious activity that the server suffers affects the whole network of websites using the server.Comment
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Shared hosting is just like sharing a room. You do not have much say about a lot of things, and when the room gets crowded, you will feel it.Comment
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will you tell me the disadvantages of Shared hosting? and limitations?Comment
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As you rightly said performance is the biggest drawback in shared hosting and most of the times it will not open, takes too much time to load because of server response time is high.Originally posted by damponting44 View PostComment
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Nice postComment
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What is nice post?Originally posted by Alexferguson View Post
You should answer the question, not just say nice or thanksComment
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I also don't know about disadvantages of shared hosting? and limitationsComment
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There are a few disadvantages that Shared Hosting has some of which have been mentioned below
1. Security Issues
2.As it is a Shared resource it results in frequent crashes
3. If the server gets overloaded then there is a possibility that your site may get affectedComment
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