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Why is cheap web hosting so cheap? What do you sacrifice to have this lower price? Almost all cheap webhosting packages are shared webhosting. This fact alone means that you will sacrifice a number of options in terms of reliability, security and speed. Users who purchase cheap, shared hosting packages are lumped together on the same server. Therefore when one of the other users does anything with their hosting that interrupts the operation of the server such as running a faulty CRON job that continuously pulls resources away from the server, your site(s) will be affected by it. This could mean that your websites could be offline for an undetermined amount of time because of the negligence of a single user. Since there could be dozens of users sharing hosting on one server the odds are against you when it comes to possible crashes. Sharing web hosting with a number of other users also means that your speed will be greatly diminished as you are sharing the overall bandwidth with every other user. If one of the sharing users hosts a high traffic site, and/or a website that hosts a lot of video or flash that take a lot of bandwidth to load, your website will suffer as a result. If you had the intention of hosting a site like that yourself, you probably don't want to do it on shared web hosting. If one of the users that shares your hosting has security flaws within their account there is a good chance that any potential damage that can be done will be done to the server itself, not any of their sites alone. This will cause your websites to suffer any limited bandwidth or crashes that may result. Cheap web hosting is the right option if your plan is to host small content based sites and you are not worried about possible downtime or slow loading times. Just remember that cheap web hosting is not always comparable to affordable webhosting.
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