Common Shared Hosting Issues

1. Crowded server

This is one of the most common problems of the web hosting industry (as it relates to shared hosting). Although this is not an inherent problem of shared hosting. Usually this problem is associated with poor management of server resources, poor business planning and more responsive than proactive behavior of the hosting company.

This is one of the first problems that you should pay attention to when choosing a hosting. If the buyer (and I think that it’s you) chooses before buying, and at the same time knows what to look for, and, no less important, knows what to watch out for, everything should be in order.

2. Security Issues

In an ideal world, all that web hosting companies need to do is connect the server to the Internet and see that the server works without problems. But the Internet cannot be called a peaceful place. There are many different "Internet terrorists." Sometimes they are also called hackers. It does not matter what you call them. The important thing is that they make the life of every decent hosting business more difficult than it should be.

However, hackers and crackers are extremes. On the net, ordinary people behave differently than in real life. When hundreds of people have access to a computer (server), it is likely that one of them will not be completely honest.

In addition, in a shared hosting environment, you can often find that you can easily access other people's accounts (an account with shared hosting is actually a directory (folder) on the server’s hard drive). Fortunately, the situation is not threatening, since in most cases what you save on the server is in any case intended for the public.

3. Problems associated with the neighborhood

What I call neighborhood problems are complex problems, but they all have one thing in common: they all relate to what other people do on the server. These people (and their websites) are your closest online neighbors and they are just as important as the neighbors in your real life.

If one of these neighbors uses an account to test a new script (and he is far from a master of his craft), then for you (and everyone else on such a server) there is a risk that one day one of these poorly written scripts can disable the server.

There is also another thing related to the neighborhood, but for the most part this concerns the internal work of the Internet, not people. This is due to the principle of the search engines and web hosts.