Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is the cheapest and most common option: many customer websites sit together on one server ✕ A server is a powerful computer that provides data or services to other devices — for example serving a website or storing your cloud files. More in the glossary → and share its resources, such as computing power and memory. This greatly lowers the cost, and the provider handles all the maintenance. The downside: under heavy traffic ✕ Traffic is the amount of data your website transfers, determined by visitor numbers and page size. Some hosting plans cap monthly traffic. More in the glossary → or with a resource-hungry neighbor site, your own site can slow down. For blogs, small business sites, and beginners it's usually enough; as traffic grows, moving to a VPS ✕ A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a partitioned slice of a server with dedicated resources. It offers more power and control than shared hosting. More in the glossary → or cloud hosting ✕ With cloud hosting, your website runs not on a single server but spread across several — providing more resilience and flexible scaling. More in the glossary → pays off. See the best web hosting comparison.