How to choose a shared hosting plan in Pakistan
The four shared plans are built around how much a website stores and how many people use it. Web Hosting Gate is enough for a personal website, a CV or a small brochure site with a few pages and a handful of email addresses. Professional's Pick is the most popular choice for companies, because 75 mailboxes and 60 GB of monthly bandwidth cover a typical office and its daily website traffic. Host Everything adds more space and an addon domain, so a business can run its main site and a second brand from one account. Multi Host is for image-heavy portfolios, catalogues and stores, with unlimited bandwidth and email and room for four additional websites. To decide, check how much disk space your current site uses, count the staff who need email, and estimate monthly visits. When in doubt, start smaller and upgrade later, because moving up a plan keeps your website and email exactly as they are.
Business email on shared hosting: limits and good practice
Shared hosting includes email on your own domain, and a few habits keep it reliable. Because many accounts share each mail server, there is an hourly limit on outgoing messages to stop one user's mass mailing from getting the server blacklisted, which would affect everyone. That limit is generous for normal business correspondence but not intended for newsletters or bulk promotions; for those, use a dedicated email marketing service and authenticate it with your domain. Keep mailbox sizes under control by deleting large old attachments, and use IMAP so mail stays synchronised across phone and computer. Protect each mailbox with a unique password, because compromised accounts are the most common source of spam sent from shared servers. If customers report your messages arriving in spam, ask support to check your SPF and DKIM records, which prove to receiving servers that your email genuinely comes from your domain and hasn't been forged by somebody else.
Keeping your website secure on shared hosting
Server-level firewalls and malware scanning protect every account, but most website break-ins start with something inside the account itself. The biggest risks are outdated software, weak passwords and pirated themes or plugins. Keep your CMS, themes and extensions updated, and delete any you no longer use, since inactive plugins can still be exploited. Use a strong, unique password for your control panel, FTP, database and website admin, and enable two-factor authentication wherever it is offered. Never install nulled software: it is a common way for attackers to hide backdoors, and it can lead to suspension under our policy. Make sure your site loads over HTTPS everywhere by redirecting all traffic to the secure version once your SSL certificate is active. Finally, limit who has access: remove former developers' logins, and give each person their own account instead of sharing one password, so access can be withdrawn cleanly if someone leaves.
Backups: what we keep and what you should keep
Regular server backups mean a mistake or a failed update rarely becomes a disaster, and our support team can restore files, databases or email from recent copies on request. Even so, it's wise to keep your own copies, because no single backup system should be the only protection for years of business data. In cPanel, the backup tool lets you download a full account archive or separate copies of your home directory, databases and email forwarders. Download one every month, and before any major change such as a redesign, a plugin overhaul or a CMS upgrade. Store the files somewhere independent, such as cloud storage or an external drive, not on the hosting account itself. For WordPress sites, a backup plugin can send copies to Google Drive or Dropbox on a schedule. Test a backup occasionally by restoring it to a sub-domain, so you know it actually works before the day you need it.
Hosting more than one website on a shared plan
Many businesses run more than one website: a main company site, a product brand, a campaign page or a site for a sister company. The Host Everything and Multi Host plans include addon domains, which let you host additional websites with their own domain names from the same hosting account. Each addon domain gets its own folder, and can have its own email addresses, databases and SSL certificate, while you manage everything from one control panel and pay a single renewal. Sub-domains offer another option for related sections, such as shop.yourbrand.pk or blog.yourbrand.pk, and every plan includes them. Keep in mind that all websites in the account share the plan's disk space, bandwidth and server resources, so a busy store can affect a smaller site on the same plan. If one website grows significantly, it's usually better to give it a separate plan or move it to a VPS of its own.
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