Shared hosting is sufficient for small blogging sites but once your site grows you may not see all the performance you need to provide the best experience for your visitors.
When you decide to invest in a hosting plan, shared hosting options are the most cost-effective solutions. Shared hosting does give value for money but it can affect your website’s performance.
There are things that you need to consider which generally affect your website’s performance in Shared hosting plan, such as:
1. Page Load Speed
Shared hosting plans have lesser page load speed. If your website loads faster, your users will spend more time on your website which will increase the average engagement time and also your search rankings. There’s nothing worse than a slow loading website.
If your website takes too long to load, your visitors will head elsewhere. A slow website is a sign that your shared hosting is not coping with the size and traffic of your website. Another website hosted on the same server might be consuming more power and space.
2. Server Location
You have to analyse where your targeted customer base is and where your server needs to be located. Having a web host with its server particularly in the location where your targeted customers are will surely push up your search engine rankings.
Servers far away might suffer from bandwidth congestion and route optimisation might be poor. This will impact the speed of your website.
3. Uptime and Downtime
If you pick a shared web hosting services plan, your site might get down due to server issues and your users won’t be able to access your website.
If another site is using all the bandwidth of the server yours will go down. The site may get flagged by Google which will impact your search rankings negatively.
Downtime is a major web hosting issue associated with shared web servers. If you own all of the resources on your server – virtual or dedicated – you will not have this problem.
4. Your content is duplicated
Some hosting providers create a subdomain of your actual domain automatically. This duplicate contains your entire website’s content, so in effect, your website will be crawled twice by search engines.
As the search engines favour original content and penalize duplication, your site’s ranking could be affected.
5. Shared IP address
If your website shares an IP address with a blacklisted domain, that could impact your rankings.
How could anyone even find out who shares your server. Getting an individual IP address on top of your hosting package could help.
6. Server Quality
Sharing the bandwidth and the disk space with other domains can decrease the server quality. Your site’s performance will also depend on their site’s performance on the web.
You always need to stay aware of the impact server quality can have on your website.
7. Database Connection Issues
Database connection failures generally happen when your site receives a lot of traffic, and your server is not able to handle it. The server will crash because of this.
This increases the downtime of your site and will have a huge impact on the website’s performance.
Always be aware of the web hosting issues you might need to deal with, with a Shared hosting plan and pick the one that provides rock solid facilities.
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