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!