Written by Rack Alley
One of the many choices when it comes to hosting your own website is shared web hosting. Basically, shared web hosting is one server shared amongst hundreds or even thousands of accounts. Each of these accounts can have many sites/domains run by them. While this does sound problematic, and does have its share of issues, it also comes with some benefits:
Cost
Shared web hosting is cheap. You will most likely be paying less than ten dollars a month for an account that lets you host a few domains, websites etc along with some email accounts. For a site starting out it means not having to shell out hundreds of dollars for capacity that will not be used.
Growth
These shared hosting services are limited by the amount of resources you can use. Although they do state that most are unlimited, it is not so and you will eventually have to upgrade when the site grows. But this is not a bad thing. As your site gets bigger, you have the option of upgrading the package in place. You can go to a higher shared package or even go to dedicated or virtual hosting or colocation at an la data center.
Support
Services like la colocation have a lot of flexibility but it also means a lot of more work. You will almost certainly have to do everything on the server yourself. Shared hosting comes with support where a lot of the leg work can be done for you. Certain levels of support are provided and anything additional can be paid for.
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Rack Alley is a provider of colocation services, including server hosting los angeles.