The main drawback of a shared web hosting plan is the fact that you are in reality sharing a single server with other websites, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of them. As you may imagine, when you are sharing space with this many websites, performance may take a hit. If you are on the same server with another bandwidth-hungry website, yours could actually be affected by it. If you find your website constantly loading slowly, you may want to try a different web host, because their server may be overloaded.

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According to a recent survey, shared web hosting is what about 90 percent of websites on the Internet use as their web hosting choice. The reason for this is the low cost of shared web hosting. Some web hosts offer shared hosting plans for as little as $2 per month, although most are around $10 per month. Shared web hosting plans are probably the best value when it comes to web hosting, because you typically get a nice chunk of bandwidth, control over your website, a good amount of storage, and plenty of email addresses. For most small websites, shared web hosting is the best value in terms of price and performance. The shared web hosting marketplace is so aggressive among web hosts that they are frequently offering new freebies and other incentives for you to select their company over the opposition.

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