Shared Website Hosting

A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service or derive host refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site "sits" on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites. This is generally the most economical option for hosting, as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance.

With shared web hosting, the service provider is generally responsible for managing web servers, installing web server software, security updates and technical support. Most web servers found are based on the Linux operating system and LAMP software bundle because of the low operating cost associated with open source softawre.
But some web hosting providers offer Microsoft Windows-based or FreeBSD-based web hosting solutions.
For example: the Plesk and Ensim web control panels are both available for two operating systems, Windows and Linux. Versions for either operating system have very similar interfaces and functionality.

Shared website hosting has it's disadvantages as well such as sharing the same Internet protocol (IP) number and do not properly support their own "HTTPS" security however they may share a digital certificate by the web hosting provider.