Hosting Small APIs on Shared Hosting: What’s Possible?

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The Challenge of APIs on Shared Hosting

Shared hosting environments are optimised for serving pages, not high volume API traffic. You share CPU, RAM and network resources with many other customers.

When It Might Be Acceptable

  • Low traffic internal tools.
  • Simple forms that pass data to other services.
  • Prototype APIs for testing concepts.

When to Upgrade

If your API handles sensitive data, requires strict uptime or receives heavy traffic, it is time to consider VPS, containers or managed API platforms that provide isolation and scalability.

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