What is Shared Hosting?
Shared hosting is the entry-level way to put a website online: dozens or hundreds of websites live on one server and share its processor, memory and disk. Because costs divide across all tenants, plans are cheap — but a traffic spike or badly-behaved site elsewhere on the server can slow yours, and resource limits cap how much load your site can handle.
For most Indian small-business websites — a brochure site, a blog, a booking page — shared hosting at ₹1,500 to ₹4,000 per year is entirely adequate, handling thousands of visitors daily when paired with caching. The upgrade path is a VPS (virtual private server) from around ₹400 to ₹800 monthly, which suits SaaS applications, high-traffic stores, or anything needing guaranteed resources and custom server software.