There are various limitations of the shared hosting in spite of it being the most popular among the web hosting services
. These limitations are:
Often the shared website hosting companies are advertised as providing unlimited bandwidth and storage capacity. Many customers are attracted by this offer and therefore do not realize that the bandwidth provided by these hosting services are much lower and there is nothing like unlimited bandwidth. If you ever exhaust the bandwidth then it will affect your website as well as the server too.
The security features and the control panel tools of the shared web hosts are also poor in nature. If you opt for a shared hosting there are chances of security breaches and hacking as there are various users using the same server.
In shared website hosting you would also face the problem of limited resources as the web host is not liable to provide the necessary resources always to the users. Often you would find if some resources are already used by one website you might not be able to use those resources.
The problem of overselling is another limitation of the shared hosting. This overselling does not allow the website owners to enjoy the benefits and the features that you are allocated. This means that the service providers would normally sell one single server to hundreds of different customers in small parts which would lead to overselling and would finally make the websites load slowly.
In shared hosting every user is allocated the same bandwidth and the disk space. Thus, if you want to have extra bandwidth or extra disk space, that is not very easily possible with shared web hosting. If you want to expand your business then it is not right for you to have web hosting.
Also in these kind of web hosting packages you can never install the software or the applications that you want to install in your website. You have to be satisfied with the software that is provided by the web host provider. Thus you cannot design your website according to your wish.