Which is better- dedicated hosting or shared hosting?. The answer to this question depends on many factors and points, most of which are client specific. Simply put, what is best for one client may not be best for another client. In this short blog post, I going to compare and contrast these two popular web hosting types, and show the advantages and disadvantages of both hosting service types.
Shared web hosting is mostly and widely used today by many busines or personal websites- and for a few good reasons. A shared hosting is a type of hosting that hosts your website along with several other websites, all websites on the same IP address.
In addition to security issues, shared web hosting servers tend to be the slowest form of web hosting. This is a matter of logistics- if you split the same connection between many hundred websites, there is going to be a performance impact. In addition, if a CGI or PHP script is written wrongly by another website owner on the same server, it can also slow down the performance of your website as well. However, with a dedicated web server, your server will have a direct connection to the hosting service provider’s Internet gateway which will not be shared with other user’s websites. In addition to dedicated server, your server will also have only the workload that you give it- if you use only a few CGI or PHP scripts, your server will run perfectly fast.
The main advantage to having your own web server is that you are responsible for security and maintenance updates, as well as backups. I cannot remember how many times a hosting service provider has deployed an update, and restored and reboot the server without even contacting the users. In many of cases, the users had to contact the hosting company to ask what happened before the Hosting service provider even admitted to any error. Placing this responsibility in your hands allows you to make that all updates are installed, and that system backups are religiously followed.
In addition, with a dedicated web Hosting service, you can also easily install extra server software if you needed. If you want to check out a new Apache module, you have the freedom to install and run that software to try it out. Try doing that with a shared web hosting server! Simply put, shared web hosting providers typically do not install extra software on their server without an act of congress!
Which ever web hosting plan you choose to go with is your choice to make. However, the general requirements that I make is this: if you plan on generating money with your website, the only logical choice is a dedicated web hosting. Given the reliability, security and speed differences, you simply cannot risk the profitability of a website with shared web hosting. Most of web hosting companies in india are providing all of these features and benefits in their hosting offers.
