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Shared web hosting has several alternative names. Some are referred to as virtual hosting services or derive host. Shared web hosting is a provider that supplies a common web server where a number of websites share a portion of space on a common web server. Each website has its own personal space on the same host server and the occurrence of data being mixed is minimal. This type of Web Hosting is extremely popular in recent times because of the cost of this service. The service is economical because instead of one web site shouldering the cost of server maintenance, several users share the weight. With multiple users sharing the cost the hosting provider of service is charging each customer is a portion of the cost one customer would typically pay. With enough websites on one server many can offer free web hosting. In this day and age, shared hosting is offered to 98% of the customers provided with web hosting service. Shared web hosting is one of the most reliable and economical web hosting services on the market today. There are some things that come with Web Hosting as a given. All shared hosting retailers deliver system administration. The only drawback to this type of arrangement is for those web designers that would like to have control over the web server for certain types of extensive development work. Many website owners couldn't care less about the wide ranging or all-encompassing workings of the web server housing their website and are happy to leave this job to the hosting provider. As long as their website is working for them and their customers they are satisfied with their web hosting service. Every provider enables the user or website owner to use their files found on the web server through an administrator control panel. Most of these panels are either Plesk, Ensim, DirectAdmin, H-Sphere or InterWorx. The most popular and widely used is cPanel for the administrator control panels. CPanel is prevalent for web host customers because of the ease of use. When electing which shared hosting provider is best for you consider three things; uptime, storage space and control panel. The control panel as discussed earlier in this article should be user friendly and easy to use. You should have no trouble navigating your web site and designing around the space. There are many shared web host providers that will supply a free website designer tool for you which make creating your space a breeze.