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Web Hosting in Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh

There are a number of web hosting services in Pennsylvania that can accommodate you. Your first stop in your Pennsylvania web hosting search will probably be Philadelphia. This "City of Brotherly Love" has the fifth most populated metropolitan area in the U.S., and when you're looking for cheap web hosting, you're often looking in heavily populated areas that usually have secure electric power sources and dependable Internet connections. If Philadelphia doesn't offer the cheap web hosting you're looking for, you can try Pittsburgh, the second biggest city in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh has a thriving technology industry so there's a good chance the right web host for you is located there.

Pennsylvania Cheap Web Hosting

If you're looking for Pennsylvania web hosting on a budget, you will most likely want to go with a shared server. With a shared server you can get as much or almost as much disk space and bandwidth as you can with your own server, but at a greatly reduced price. The reason that shared server web hosting is so much cheaper is that the web host can rent different parts of the server to different companies. In effect, you are sharing the cost of the server with the other companies who are using it.

More About Pennsylvania Shared Servers

While your part of the server is your own and no other company can use it, all companies on the server are operating with the same control panel and under the same tech support, somewhat limiting your flexibility with how you can manage your web pages. In addition, you share an IP address with other companies, so if someone blocks one of them, you will be blocked as well. For a company with basic Internet needs however, a shared server is usually more than sufficient.