Shared hosting

Shared hosting is the entry-tier hosting product: multiple customer websites run on the same physical server, managed through a control panel (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk), with disk and bandwidth quotas per account. Customers don't get root access; the host manages the underlying OS, web server, PHP, MySQL, and security patching. Pricing typically starts at $3-15 / mo.

Shared hosting is the right product for static sites, basic WordPress installs, small business websites, and other low-resource workloads. Where shared falls short: anything that needs custom server software (ssh-only deployment, custom Node.js / Python services, hardware-specific tools) or that draws more traffic than the per-account quotas tolerate. At that point, customers move to a VPS.