Making this decision will give you a bundle of features for a reduced fee. This may include having access to a number of email accounts, which is beneficial for a small or medium sized firm. This makes it easier for a firm to run their business site.

It is not all positive with a shared web hoisting system however. It can lower your costs but there are negative issues involved too:

* There is no facility to have a secure website (HTTPS) and this is because name-based virtual hosts are unable to do this because they share the same IP address and digital certificate.
* If there are times that the DMS (Domain Name System) is unable to work as it should then it is extremely difficult to use a website that is virtually hosted.
* There is a lack of functionality with browsers that are unable to process the host name as part of the request. This is shown in the example of incompatibility between the previous HTTP/1.0 model and the newer HTTP/1.1 model. This is due to a lack of host field feature on the old model.