Shared Host vs. Dedicated server

Posted on July 16th, 2009
A blog post by DN (1 Comment)

There is a lot of talk about what kind of hosting you should choose when you decide to get your website up and running.

One thing that you need to know up front is that many of the leading web hosting companies is shared hosts. They are the ones in which you can get access at around $ 5-10 per month. The surprising thing is that a majority of the customers don’t even know that they are on shared hosting, as the servers are very well managed and super-powerful. For small businesses, you don’t need a dedicated server, and almost all the leading hosting companies offer tremendous perks like unlimited bandwidth, unlimited data transfer, unlimited number of domains, unlimited email addresses and so on. The single server is so powerful that you don’t need more than that. Think about choosing shared hosting if your business does not expect more than a few thousand visitors a day.

Dedicated hosting is the other side of the coin. When your business is real big, and you have a lot of add-on applications like e-com capabilities, lots of videos and stuff that needs to be hosted, and other resource intensive plug-ins running on your website, you need something more than shared hosting. And more importantly, you are in a business that cannot afford any kind of a downtime, and you are ready to spend extra money for that; then you should think about dedicated hosting. Though the cost might run up to a hundred dollars or so a month, you should be in a position where your business recovers that extra amount spent.

Make an informed decision, and you won’t regret it later.

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