When looking for a web hosting company, you may wonder what type of hosting to choose: shared, VPS, dedicated, etc.

If your site is not going to contain a large number of very big images (think BIG; like Flickr; not just some images to enhance mostly textual content), a lot of video, or audio, or for gaming, and is mostly going to be text, then you should probably start with a shared account. Shared accounts split the space and resources of a server among many different people, which can be a serious problem if you are going to be a heavy load.

But if your site will consist mostly of text with some images thrown in, and you don't expect a huge amount of visitors, then shared will work fine for your purposes.