When you are first looking into best web hosting, you’ll find there are millions of options for your business website, personal website, or blog website. Shared web hosting is the most common and popular choice for beginning your website, as shared web hosting offers top web hosting features and promotions.

But what is shared web hosting?

Shared web hosting is a fancy term for something semi technical. When you are hosting your website, you are sharing what is called a “server”. Servers are just big computers that have storage space on them so you can store your pictures, movies, music, etc. The servers work just like your home computer, so imagine sharing your home computer with your kids, spouse, parents, friends, or roommates. Shared web hosting works the same – each user has unique access to their best web hosting account, where they can upload their website, store files, and access emails. In essence, there can be up to 700 people sharing the same server with you, even though best web hosting companies will only put 300 or so on one server at a time. None of the other users can access your files, just as you can’t access theirs.

So shared web hosting is often the cheapest, best web hosting option for beginning web hosting customers.

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