Find Out The Benefits Of Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting Compared To Shared Hosting
By far the most cost effective means to get your website on the internet today is to use what is called shared hosting. Shared hosting is where a net hosting company rents you a certain amount of disk space in which to store the files that make up your website and permit you a certain quantity of bandwidth (ie. the information transfered between your website and your visitors browsers) in exchange for a monthly fee. Typically speaking, the more you pay the more web space and bandwidth you’ll get.
There are even deals around where you’re offered ‘unlimited’ disk space and bandwidth for a absurdly small sum of money each month. Lots of individuals are happy with what they get, however many others have discovered when actually trying to use substantial amounts of space or bandwidth that if it sounds too good to be true then it normally is!
One of the features of a shared hosting account is that, as it’s name implies, you are sharing the disk space and bandwidth with heaps of different users. As I’m certain you will appreciate, when an application is thrashing your hard disk on your own PC, or using up a lot of memory, then your PC slows down dramatically and can seem to grind to a halt at times. Well, this situation is pretty much the same with shared hosting. You’ll find yourself on a server with other users who have memory or CPU intensive applications, or well-trafficed sites that have tons of guests, that means heaps of disk activity. The end result is that the responsiveness of your web site is affected.
A further drawback with shared hosting is that you’ll be unaware of who exactly you’re sharing with. If you find that your site drops suddenly in Google that may be for the reason that you have done something Google does not like. On the other hand it could be that the IP address you’re sharing with each and every one the other sites on your server has been recognized as a cause of spam or malware.
So what is the solution?
Well many folks are happy with taking the risks related to shared hosting, but for others some kind of cheap dedicated hosting provides a low price answer to their problems. You’ll want to make a decision if you wish Linux server hosting or Windows server hosting, but that decision ought to be driven by the applications that you would like to run, as they will almost certainly be Windows only or Linux only.
A virtual dedicated server is the next step up from shared hosting and can cost you a touch more money. With a virtual shared server you still won’t have a physical server all to yourself, but you will have much more control over your hosting environment and you will eliminate just about all of the issues related to shared hosting, and you’ll have your own IP address. For the tiny amount extra (it will be usually around $20 – $30 per month extra) that a virtual dedicated server costs this is a worthwhile investment.
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