Have you ever wondered which is the real difference among different offerings besides the fact that your applications run on a shared server? In fact, most of the times, this seems to be a tricky question because most service providers describe the boundaries and limits of their services based on the following common parameters:
- The resource type and quota: storage, bandwidth, mail boxes, mail lists, FTP accounts, database instances, etc.
- The underlying platform: Windows (IIS/Apache) or Linux (Apache) under whichever version.