Shared hosting is the cheapest type of hosting around. It is efficient, and gives you a great amount of disk space and bandwidth for your site. However, shared hosting is not for all sites.

For example, shared hosting can easily be used on a site like this. (This site does not use an extreme amount of Bandwidth and/or disk space.) However, for a site like YouTube that gets an enormous amount of visitors, uses dedicated servers.

Shared hosting is quick, cheap and reliable. In my opinion, the best place to start off with shared hosting is Hostgator. Hostgator is great for starters using Shared hosting. It’s clean, and has a very user-friendly interface. It uses cPanel, which is a great application to manage your files, bandwidth, disk space etc. The cPanel application looks like this. When purchasing Shared hosting with Hostgator, you can enter in coupon codes to get you a little discount. These coupon codes can be found all over the place, but my best suggestion is this website. All of the codes from this website should work, and they are very helpful to save you a few extra bucks. However, keep in mind that if you just want to test if a coupon works or not, and enter it in, but do not use it, it will not work later on in your account. So be sure you have chosen what you need and are ready to checkout before entering coupon codes.

Shared hosting can be registered with many other hosting companies. Most of the hosting companies nowadays use cPanel, as it is very well known and easy to use. There are some hosting companies that do not use cPanel, but I do not recommend them, because when you have shared hosting, and you do not have cPanel, you are going to be in trouble unless you somehow find a big tutorial on using their other application. Hostgator has the cheapest prices of shared hosting out of every single hosting company. I have done research on this, and yes, it is true. I know people who currently use Hostgator to host their websites. Hostgator is great, and there are many companies in competition with Hostgator, one of them is Fatcow, which is also a great company.

A lot of the big web hosting companies (main providers) will offer a reseller web hosting package so they can increase the revenue coming in for them and the incentive that it offers potential resellers is very high. There are thousands of web hosting companies that are managed under reseller accounts of the main players. Now, you will want to focus on information about the actual accounts at the reseller web hosting service provider.

With reseller hosting, you are put on a reseller server and there are a lot of benefits in your position. The fact that it is a server based on a top player (like GoDaddy) will give you the security you need and there will be incentives to make going through a reseller worth your while. If you are the reseller, you have the ability to profit off of offering hosting and the hosting for your own web sites is virtually free.

Financially, a main provider may be a little more cost efficient but the difference may barely be noticed. Usually, the services will be the exact same on the reseller plans as the main provider plans but there are usually extra features. There is a variety of features exclusive to reseller web hosting companies like web design, programming, and much more. Main hosting companies do not have the time to assist clients in that manner.

With reseller hosting, the owner is usually very friendly with the clients and in some cases will even go to the extent of adding you on a private instant messenger program like MSN because of the small clientele at the particular hosting company. The key to success for reseller companies is to be communicative with their clients.

If the whole direct customer service is a very important factor, you should look for a reseller web hosting company to get your hosting plan with but if your web site has very advanced e-commerce assistance needed, you have a large amount of traffic coming to your web site, or you have a lot of web sites running, you should stay away from a reseller hosting package.