How in the Tech

Determining who shares your shared hosting

By Adam Myers ⋅ October 6, 2009 ⋅ Tags: Internet

How in the TECH does enough traffic where it isn’t feasible to host the site on a server out of my basement but not enough traffic that warrants the costs associated with a dedicated server at a hosting facility. This is a scenario that many websites fall under and the solution for all of us is the idea of shared hosting.

Shared hosting is relatively cheap – as low as a few dollars a month and scales upwards in cost depending on the amount of hard drive space or data transfer necessary, generally. Logically, shared hosting means multiple websites are hosted from the same server, with all of the server’s resources shared amongst the websites hosted. It’s reasonable then to conclude that fewer hosted websites on a server equates to higher performance per user – sharing 101. Furthermore, it is often the case that the cheaper the shared hosting the more sites you can expect on the same server. It’s all about the volume after all.

It’s not hard to see that it may be beneficial to know what other websites are hosted on the same server as yours, or really any website. myIPneighbors.com is a website that lists all the domains associated with a user provided IP address, since, by nature, all shared websites share the same IP. You may be very surprised just how many sites are hosted in parallel to your own!