The greatest advantage that shared hosting has is cost. The cost of maintenance is shared among a number of accounts, given that a number of websites share a server.
This brings end-user costs down considerably!
There is another advantage. The web host is responsible for managing the server and support is available if issues occur with the server. This means that people with relatively few IT skills can still set up a hosting account and a website.
You will find leading-edge support available through abdicar.com's Customer Portal.
Some of the disadvantages are:
If traffic to a particular website spikes, this means that it will utilize more of the resources available than the other websites because in shared web hosting, server resources are shared between a number of accounts.
Therefore, the performance of your website is often at the mercy of other, better performing web sites on the same server. Additionally, since you are “sharing” the server, hacker activity, malware, viruses, and any disruptive activity (DOS attacks, etc.) directed at a particular web site could impact all the accounts on a server.
abdicar.com has industry-leading security on its servers to prevent intrusions! We are on watch 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so that activity to your website is not disrupted. We try to catch suspicious activity before it even has the opportunity to cause problems.