samedi 12 novembre 2016
How to Decide Between a Shared and Dedicated Hosting
One of the most important decisions you have to make if you want to expand your business into the World Wide Web is choosing the right web hosting for your Web site.
This doesn’t just involve picking the right company, though. You’ll also have to be able to decide whether you’ll get a shared hosting or dedicated hosting.
A Quick Introduction
Before we talk about the pros and cons of each of these, let me define web hosting first. You cannot go on the Internet without paying for the services of a web hosting firm. These people are like landlords. They own servers, which they lease out to clients, or tenants, who are willing to pay for the available space on the servers.
Now, moving on with this analogy, we can describe shared hosting and dedicated hosting like renting an apartment and owning a house.
A shared hosting is like…
Choosing a shared hosting is just like renting an apartment and sharing it with other people. You share the same basic resources—space, electricity, water, appliances, etc. This translates to sharing the same bandwidth, processor, web space, memory, and the like. Some people call shared hosting virtual hosting. I’m gonna use these two terms here interchangeably.
A dedicated hosting is like…
With dedicated hosting, you have your own web server to yourself. It’s just like owning your own house and enjoying your own resources without other people squeezing in to get some of their own. And just like owning a house, its way more expensive than virtual hosting.
The Imperfect Beauty of Sharing
While on the surface, getting a dedicated hosting is better than sharing a server, there is a single, very compelling advantage of virtual hosting—the price. These days, you can
But that’s another story. Today, we’re talking about shared and dedicated hosting.
Beside this extremely low price, though, are some glitches that usually go with shared servers. I’ll give you a quick once-over.
Possibility of getting banned from the search engines If you’re sharing a web server with several other Web sites, it means you’re also sharing the same IP address. At least, that’s what usually happens. If you happened to share the same address with a spam site and the search engines find out about this particular spam site and ban it, you’re doomed because they’re gonna ban you too. Yep, even if you’re not the spam site. There are some companies, though, that have different IP addresses for different sites on the same servers, so try getting that one if you want to have virtual hosting.
Slower server response If you share the same apartment with different people and you only have one bathroom, then it’s most likely that most mornings you have to line up outside the bathroom before you can use it. That’s what happens with a shared hosting. You need to wait in line before your request is served. So, for example, if someone is looking at your site and they want to view your products, but it takes your Web site forever to load because the server is busy serving up the requests on other Web site, that person might just get fed up and leave your site.
Compromised security Even if you’re behaving well and not tinkering with the sensitive components of the system, if you’re neighbor starts roughing it up, everyone is affected, including you. Especially you. This leads to errors and server crashes and, generally, pandemonium on the system.
The Advantages of Stay-On-Your-Own
You must have figured out by now the pros of having your own dedicated server, but we’ll talk them over nonetheless.
Better Performance This one’s a piece of cake to work out. Since there’s no one else needing to be served, you have all the resources to yourself. It’s like being able to go to the bathroom whenever you need to, without waiting for others in line to finish up. Users browsing your Web site have a more pleasant experience because they have to wait less for pages and images to load.
Better Security Common sense has it that a dedicated hosting poses lesser risks for system crashes. If that happens, you have no one else to blame but yourself.
Unlimited Bandwidth Let’s face it folks. Paying more means you get more. If you pay a lot to get your own hosting, then you must have a lot to put up on your own Web site. So that means companies will provide you with practically endless bandwidth to put up your pages, images, videos, forums, blogs, etc.
More Customization You can choose and install whatever software or hardware you want to use on your server. That means you can design your Web site any way you want and provide the most unique experience for your viewers. That means a lot when you’re marketing a business and want your product to stay on top of you customer’s minds.
Wrapping Things Up
Weighing the pros and cons of shared hosting and dedicated hosting isn’t enough, though. It seems like dedicated hosting sounds far better than shared hosting, but most companies have solutions that address the problems of shared hosting. If this is your first time to get your own Web site — I assume it is because what are you reading this for if you’ve already had experience with web hosting companies? — then you might want to try out a shared hosting first*. See if you can build up traffic first and if you will want to expand your site’s features for better viewer experience. Then you can get your own dedicated server.
* In case you need help, check out my
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