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Dedicated Hosting vs. Shared Hosting
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Whether you decide to use dedicated or shared web hosting
will depend on your Personal or company's individual requirements. The
type and size of your company and what your website will be used for
will affect which type of hosting you should go for. Websites vary in
size and the amount of interactivity for the users. New websites often
develop from simple static pages with information to fully interactive
sites allowing users to perform tasks, log-in, download, upload and
send emails. To choose the right web hosting, you should consider what your site is for and what it needs to be able to do, now and in the future.
Dedicated
hosting services mean that your company will literally have its own
server and all the space on it. All the connections going into the
server will be your traffic alone and when any problems arise they are
more likely to be resolved more quickly. For large companies with huge
amounts of traffic then a dedicated server makes sense because the
server can cope with a high number of visitors to your site at any one
time and the website works more quickly. Dedicated servers for your
website also mean that the server downtime will be a lot less, and
ideally up and running 100% of the time. For a large website which has
more interactivity, a dedicated server will provide a higher speed,
less errors and better overall performance.
Shared web hosting
servers often have a greater down-time, and all the connections will be
shared with all of the other sites that it hosts. Errors and technical
issues may take a long time to resolve and the slow connections or
timing out of pages may send potential customers elsewhere. Shared web
hosting can have its advantages though and will be the better option
for some websites. The cost of shared web hosting is considerably less
and there are also free services available for websites under a certain
size.
For small and personal websites with little or no
interactivity, shared hosting is by far the better option simply due to
price and the ease that they can be set up. Shared web servers are also
useful for new websites that may have limited traffic or are still
under development. However, as a website grows, many medium sized
businesses find that their sites soon don't perform to the level they
want it to, and so switching to a dedicated server makes sense.
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