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The shared website hosting provider is shared by a lot of users and must include system administration. This is beneficial to users if do not want to deal with it, but an impediment to power users that want more control.

Shared web host normally uses a web-based control panel system, such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Sphera, Ensim, Helm, H-sphere, or one of lot other control panel products. Control panels and web interfaces have been involved in a controversial debate as Web.com claims that it holds patent rights to the hosting technology with its’ 19 patents.

A large wholesale host named Hostopia, recently purchased a license to use that technology from web.com for 10% of retail revenues. Web.com recently sued Godaddy as well for similar patent infringement.

The provider, in shared linux website hosting, is in charge of installation of server software, management of servers, security updates and other features of the service. Servers are often based on the Linux operating systems because more Control Panel products are created for Linux. Though, some providers offer Microsoft Windows or FreeBSD based solutions. The Plesk control panel, for instance, has two versions – for Linux and Windows, both with very alike interfaces and functionality, with the exception of OS-specific differences (for example, supporting ASP.NET, or Microsoft SQL Server on Windows).

There are multitudes of shared web hosting providers in the United States alone. They come from home shops, to small design firms, to multi-million dollar providers with hundreds of thousands of customers.

A great part of the shared web hosting market is driven through Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) or Affiliate programs. Shared linux web hosting can also be done privately by sharing the cost of running a server, this is called cooperative hosting.

Implementation – Shared web hosting can be accomplished in two ways: IP-based and name-based.

IP-based – In IP-based shared web hosting, also called dedicated IP hosting, each virtual web host has a different IP address. The web hosting is configured with multiple physical network interfaces, or virtual network interfaces on the same physical interface. The web hosting software uses the IP address the client connects to in order to determine which web site to show the user. Name-based – In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address.

When a web browser requests a resource from a web server using HTTP/1.1 it includes the requested hostname as part of the request. The server uses this information to determine which web site to show the user.