Shared Hosting Showcases
Shared Web Hosting, otherwise known as virtual hosting, is were more than one customer is sharing the same server. Shared Web Hosting is usually more economical than going Non-Shared since all the customers on the server are splitting the servers maintenance and upkeep costs.
Shared Hosting is split into several sub-categories. We call these sub-categores hosting communities. Currently, Web Host Magazine & Buyers Guide recognizes twelve Shared Hosting communities. They are Budget, Unix & Linux, Reseller, Windows, Enterprise, E-Commerce, VPS, ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, FrontPage, and Family Hosting.
Hosting plans found in these communities share like attributes and features and often times these communities overlap. Although they overlap, each community has its own specific criteria that has been forged over the years.
For more information on each of the Shared Web Hosting communities click on the Overviews found below.
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What To Look For:
As an example of overlaping communities the Unix & Linux Hosting communities covers all Shared Hosting plans that run off of the Unix family of operating systems. Generally speaking, the bulk of them contain support for the PHP programming language. However not all PHP Hosts use the Unix family of operating systems. Some are configured to use WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP) therefore a separate community has been made. Also PHP Hosts understand all of the inner workings of PHP has a prerequisite while, Unix & Linux Hosts only need to run the Unix family of operating systems.
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