If you decided to get a professional website for your business, you probably want to turn first to a hosted way out. Considering a free website might do the job for you that is, if you can bear not having a dedicated domain name and having competitive advertising listed together with your own content. There’s another option that would be shared web hosting, which is very inexpensive, and still provides more benefits than free hosting. Like some other things there are disadvantages to shared hosting, but if you carefully choosing your hosting service will allow you to avoid the cons. Shared Hosting is inexpensive because you’ll be sharing your web server with other contract users. One disadvantage of this is when the hosting administrators decide to place all the hosted files on separate directories of the same server. This can lead to possible security matters, especially if the file permissions are not properly configured and maintained. You can avoid this to happen by contracting with a shared web hosting service that maintains each hosted site files on their own hard drive partition. Through this it will maintain the correct file permissions much easier, and will also make certain that the file space that you’re leasing is never impinged by another user. Another disadvantage is that implementing and supporting secure websites. Nowadays, hacking and hi jacking a site is becoming popular. Many shared webhosting companies use name-based virtual hosting or shared IP hosting, meaning that all the sites on the server share or having the same Internet address, and are eminent by the site name following the IP address. By requiring this dedicated IP hosting, you’ll be distinguished from all other sites hosted on the server, and can employ a security certificate particular to your site. Another basis to insist this shared webhosting service using dedicated IP hosting is to make sure that your website is always accessible, if the Domain Name System is not working. If you’re using this dedicated IP-hosting, the Internet will regress to the IP address of your site, and still send your content to the customer.
