What is shared hosting
A definition for shared hosting plans
A shared hosting plan refers to a hosting service that serves multiple web sites from one physical server. Shared hosting space, bandwidth, memory are shared between the web sites served by the server.
Almost all hosting providers offer shared hosting plans, this type of hosting is the cheapest hosting type.
Having a site hosted on a shared server, upgrades, permissions, security are managed by a system administrator, so you don't have to bother with them.
Servers offering shared hosting can run on both Unix or Windows operating systems