What You Should Know About Shared Hosting.

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Downtime
Your hosting is the foundation of your website, and if your host isn’t reliable, neither is your site. Shared hosts generally don’t suffer from long-term outages because they have a lot of redundant capacity, but every once in a while, one of their servers might die and take some sites with it. When you rely on an uptime guarantee for your site to be available for users, customers, or clients, downtime can cost you a lot more than just a few hours of missed visitors.

Security
With shared hosting, there are often thousands of websites running on the same server. That means that any security hole that is discovered on that server can potentially be exploited against every website on it. There’s also a chance that other customers’ websites will be insecure and vulnerable to hacking, which might compromise your own website as well. It’s generally up to you to ensure the security of your own website, but having good neighbors can help too!

Customizability
With shared hosting, you’re generally limited to using whatever operating system the provider has chosen for the server. You also might not be able to install software or configure settings like PHP versions without going extra mile.
 
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