Shared web hosting also known as virtual hosting or derive host. It deals with a web hosting service that has got many websites that reside on the web server that is connected to the internet.To separate the sites from one another each site has its own section or place on the server. This is one of the most economical way of hosting, as allot of people share cost for maintenance of the server and thus,system administration is very important. Although this kind of hosting is not much beneficial to those who has the requirement for software development outside what a hosting provider provides. Here, the provider is basically responsible for managing the servers, security updates, installing software, technical support, and other services as well. Implementation is done in two ways: 1. Name-based:Here, the virtual hosts with a single IP address serves many host names. 2. IP-based:Here, web server with multiple physical network interfaces on same physical interface is configured. Some of the drawbacks are that they don't work for very old browsers like HTTP/0.1, they also don't support secure websites.