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Can I run Magento on shared hosting?

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Last Updated: September 17, 2013 9:19 AM

You can run Magento® on Linux shared hosting, however, shared hosting will not give an optimal user experience. To get the best performance, you need a VPS or Dedicated Server. Running Magento on shared hosting may result in the site running slowly and may affect your customers' experience.

Further, if you want to run Magento on a shared hosting account, you must disable FastCGI.