Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Hostiing

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In shared hosting, you can get your website a domain name and be hosted by a server together with other websites (usually 80-120 websites, average of 100 websites), thus, called “shared hosting”.
Advantage:
1. Cost-effective. Cost is shared with others.
2. Advisable for small business.
3. Low to medium traffic.
4. Multiple Software sharing.

Disadvantage
1. Security is at risk due to many websites in only one server.
2. Limited traffic volume. (only low to med).
3. No control on software installation.