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Web Hosting
Shared web hosting service can be compared to a shared cab where a number of passengers use the same vehicle by paying a relatively lower fare. Similarly, in case of shared webhosting, the server's resources are distributed among the accounts for a cheap and affordable monthly fee. You get a predefined chunk of disk space, a fixed monthly bandwidth or transfer quota and a control panel to manage your hosting account. It should be mentioned that the CPU and RAM (speed and memory) resources are shared among all the customers on a single server. So, if one tends to utilize a very high amount of CPU or memory, then the others tend to suffer. But hosts monitor all accounts and ask the over-using customers to either leave or upgrade their plans.
Most shared hosting plans now offer more than 5GB disk space and that should be more than enough for most. Although you may see hosts offering outrageously high disk space, ideally customers aren't able to use them.
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For your website and scripts to function properly, your hosting features should be compliant. What scripting language and database options does it offer? PHP, ASP.NET, Perl, MySQL, MSSQL, Linux or Windows? - Which of them do you want? Also check what control panels they are offering and try a demo to make sure you are comfortable with it. For low to medium traffic websites, a limit of 100GB per month is considered good. Though most shared hosts now offer more bandwidth than that, you should know that it's a marketing gimmick and you cannot even realize that limit in practice. It would be wise to check different forums and communities, popular blogs and read what they say about the different hosts that you have already short listed.
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