What are the pros and cons?

[alexander]

What are the pros and cons of shared hosting.

Any suggestions appreciated.

[pingpipe]

Advantage: relatively inexpensive webhosting, server administration is done by the hosting provider

Possible disadvantage: no root access to the server

[Google]

You know much depends on the company you are using shared hosting services.
Say if you stick to dayanahost or godaddy or marblehost, you get many resources at competitive rates with high uptime.
I'd like to know, the OP what purposes do you bare in mind asking about shared services?

[maahiwilson]

Hello
Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) have always bored me. They're unexciting, they usually offer puny returns, and they take some time to understand.

But there's a time for every investment, and now is the time to add TIPS to your portfolio. They're outrageously cheap, and they protect you against inflation, which is virtually certain to pick up in the coming years.

Bill Gross, manager of Pimco Total Return (symbol PTTDX) and other similar funds, notes that although the market has punished TIPS lately, their prices could quickly reverse course once investors begin to anticipate an economic recovery. Gross says a sharp rally in TIPS prices is likely within the next six months.

Here's how TIPS protect you against inflation. Every six months, the government resets the value of your TIPS based on the rise in the Consumer Price Index. TIPS immediately start paying interest on that higher amount of principal.

With the government running the printing presses 24 hours a day in an effort to ward off deflation, it's hard to believe the U.S. won't see a pickup in inflation once the financial crisis abates. "We like TIPS as an insurance policy on inflation," says Mark Kiesel, head of investment-grade bonds at Pimco.

But today's TIPS prices seem to suggest that future inflation will be practically nonexistent. A ten-year TIPS note currently yields about 2%, while a regular ten-year Treasury note yields only one-half percentage point more. That means that over the next ten years, TIPS will do better than regular Treasuries if inflation is more than a mere 0.5% a year. A five-year TIPS note yields 2.25% -- slightly more than regular Treasuries. In other words, even if there is no inflation over the next five years, TIPS will earn more than standard Treasury IOUs.

[stone.sharon]

See if you can talk to some of their references and get some real life stories and type sample websites on google and yahoo and measure their results.

[eric_pu]

Pros:not cost you enough money;user friendly;assist you in almost everything you need.
Cons: you may be limited to use applications due to the short space available.

[d2hsean]

I can think of only one Con: you cannot give separate control panel to your clients. Need to manage it from the one single control panel.

[WHUK]

Originally Posted by alexander

What are the pros and cons of shared hosting.

Any suggestions appreciated.

The main advantage of Shared hosting is that it is very cost effective Its always recommended if a user wants to start a new website or if he is not sure of the resources which he needs. The main disadvantage of Shared Hosting is that all the accounts are setup on a single sever. So all the users share RAM, CPU and port speed. If any user's website is using more resources than allocated and is overloading the server than your website might get hampered. You might experience a slow loading speed. Moreover you cannot install any 3rd party applications on the server or customize the server as per your requirements in Shared Hosting.