Web hosting is the basic requirement for any
business to have a fair multi-marketing strategy, even if it’s not completely
online-based. When it comes to your online presence, it becomes essential how
you want to prioritize your expansion plans. Your expansion plans decide what
infrastructure you’ll need.
Unfortunately, not many start-ups entrepreneurs
today have deep insights when it comes to taking a call on infra requirements.
One of the topmost important decisions involves picking the kind of hosting.
The two basic models available commercially are – Dedicated
server hosting and Shared server hosting.
As a transition from one model to another may have
disruptive impacts of seamless business operations, it is important to think
well ahead of time so that you face no problems in later stages.
Let’s see what the major differences are in these
two models of hosting so you can easily choose one over the other:
1.
Sites
Hosted on the Server
Most
of us may know but it’s good to reiterate this primary difference between the
two. In a shared hosting package, there are other sites that are hosted on the
server along with your website while in a dedicated hosting plan, it’s yours
and only yours website on the server. No physical sharing at all!
2.
Security
More
than anything else, security is one aspect many companies are thoughtful of
when it comes to putting the valuable data on cloud. Practically seeing, either
of the hosting is nothing but putting your data on a cloud based environment.
In case of shared hosting it is the hosting company that installs firewalls and
server security applications and programs. When it comes to dedicated servers,
you are the boss. You have all the rights to install whatever you want to,
double assured of your data security. No wonder, there is definitely more
concerns of data security when it comes to shared resources compared to
dedicated server.
3.
Costs
The
other major difference that could affect decision making is the cost involved.
Naturally, with all the resources in your hand, dedicated servers come at
significantly higher costs. In a shared hosting, server resources are shared
among several users, the operating costs are thus lower as they get shared.
4. Blacklisting Of Website
A very important point here
which many of you might not now! In case of shared services, you run a
considerable risk of your side being blacklisted
by search engines because some other side on the server your sharing has been engaging
illegal internet practices such as spamming may get the entire IP address
blacklisted. When it comes to dedicated server, the risk of blacklisting is
solely dependent on how your site is operating and not others’.
5.
Server
Performance and Response Time
It’s very common
to see in shared hosting environment that due to high peak traffic at some
hours of the day, the server could experience overall drain of resources
leading to high response time to your site. A high traffic on one of the sites
sharing the server could choke the bandwidth leading to slow response time and
slow loading time. In case of dedicated servers, you sit on the saddle of
resources!
Conclusion
No wonder a
dedicated server offers more control than shared hosting model, you need to
equally make sure that you have the resources and manpower to have an effective
utilization of this control. Also, the kind of hosting you may want to choose
will depend on your budget, server requirements and website needs. The decision
has to be well thought through!
Click to Read in Detail- Which
is better for you : Shared or Dedicated Server?