R.ARTICLE 0.1 — Dedicated hosting and shared server hosting are perhaps the 2 most used hosting services ever for running an online business. Dedicated web hosting comes with many benefits, and the biggest one is completed freedom to use every single resources of a single server dedicated to the entire website. Unlike shared hosting, this hosting has one server assigned to a particular website, which the website developer uses to upload his/her website files with complete control and freedom.
Who needs such type of hosting?
Those companies and websites having gigabytes of data with thousands of images pictures, videos and multimedia content along with hundreds of pages require faster loading times and the best server uptime guarantees. Dedicated hosting has one server with customer defined specifications put to the entire website usage.
For other websites having huge volumes of data that need good and reliable hosting but cannot afford buy dedicated servers, use shared servers for their websites.
Listed below are the main differences of these two services:
1. Dedicated hosting holds only one website dedicating all resources of a fast server to the entire website, whereas shared hosting had many websites run on a single server.
2. The webmasters would be provided wit dedicated IP that is different from every single IP of the world, whereas in the case of shared hosting webmaster would be given an IP shared with various other websites running on that single server. There is a high risk of sharing IP address against various other websites. Many websites have got themselves black listed by the search engines. Other websites running on the same server might get affected by such policies o search engines where the legitimate websites might get banned as well form various search engines. In other words if one shared IP is banned, every website having that IP would also get banned from the internet.
3. Dedicated web hosting although comes with various benefits, but not without high price. Dedicated hosting is as expensive as 15 times the cost of shared hosting. If shared hosting costs $5 per month, good quality dedicated hosting starts at $100 per month. The main reason for such a big price difference lies in utilizing the company resource's the company would charge higher prices from the website owners using dedicated servers because only one server would be up and running the entire website.
4. Computer, routers and firewalls in shared hosting would only get managed by hosting company, whereas in dedicated web hosting one gets dedicated customer support services, along with complete control over the entire server. Dedicated hosting comes with various packages like hard disk space, server memory (RAM), server speed (CPU) and the types of software and tools to be installed. In other words it is a completely customized solution for website owners. In shared hosting, the websites are being provided with ready made tools, software and equipment without any further advantages of customization. Furthermore dedicated hosting has benefits of choosing from the type of operating system of servers, like window, Linux, and Unix etc.
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