Getting a website off the ground
is a balancing act. Whether you are running a business directly from your
website or simply want proper online presence, it is important that you invest
in the right services to make sure that you have all the resources you need in
order to keep the site working as it should. Hosting solutions are many and
varied and they also come with differing price tags. You can pay cheap for a
shared server host or invest a bit more on a dedicated server. But the question
remains—how do you know whether you need to pay more for dedicated web hosting
or stick with a cheaper shared server?
In web hosting, just like in many
other aspects of business, higher performance speeds and greater freedom
naturally come at higher costs. If your website requires much running power
such as a huge e-commerce store, dedicated web hosting will be much
advantageous. However, it might be an overkill for something static and built
as a mere informational site.
A dedicated web server is a lot
more powerful than a shared network or a VPS. While shared server lets you use
the same resource pool as several other different websites in a single machine,
many websites kind of arrangement, dedicated web hosting provides you with an
entire physical server machine that solely works for your site. This means that
resources within that server, bandwidth and all are reserved entirely for the
functions and services of your website.
Many business owners and
developers on the other hand, opt
for VPS or virtual private server, which for most is a safe middle ground.
VPS is a web hosting solution that allows you to share a physical server with
several other sites, but with the advantage of your own set resources. It
offers the best of both worlds, in that it allows dedicated allotment of
resources within a shared server, with minimal impact on your site performance
due to neighboring sites.
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