Disadvantages Of Shared Web Hosting

Although many websites run on shared or virtual hosts, this type of web hosting is not necessarily the best solution in all cases. If your web application requires an excessive amount of CPU, RAM or other resources, or you need special software plugins and drivers, a shared hosting environment may not be the best solution for you. The hosting company has to consider all the clients hosted on a computer and would not appreciate someone hogging the resources, nor will they install foreign software as it could have a detrimental impact on their other clients. If your website needs to have guaranteed or very high rate of uptime, you wouldn't want to take chances in a shared environment as it might be possible that other clients hosted on the computer could cause problems for everyone.