2 of 6

Write now Article Tools

Dedication is the word in dedicated web hosting. Dedicated hosting is one in which a client has an entire web server committed to its hosting needs.Large companies with outstanding daily page views will go for dedicated hosting. On the other hand, shared hosting is a type of web hosting in which the available server is distributed among many end users. The end users are maintained on a single Internet Protocol (IP) address. Server resources are splitted among many users. Each business or web site competes for resources in what looks like bidding for an auction. Shared hosting is the toast of many small business outfits. Just starting out small means there are very few hits on the web site and webpages may be as few as one or two. However, both dedicated and shared hosting are forms of reaching out to customers for businesses via the web.

How well then does dedicated hosting compares with shared hosting? The following information serves to give more insight into the two worlds that are paradoxically the same:

Reliability

Generally, in web hosting, problems do arise. But what noise does anyone make when you are using a shared hosting package. Many end users of shared hosting watch perplexed and endlessly as the server generates problems with nothing to do. In fact, the limits to your control are nowhere. Get back to re-read the agreement that comes with it. You should be convinced your web host is not a cheat. However, with dedicated hosting, a more reliable business package is offered, and this include the lease of an entire server. Again, there is unlimited access to the operating system, software and database applications.

Customizability

If your company is growing fast, many aspects of your web presence will change along with it. You may regularly need to tweak your disk space and bandwidth and experiment with using different applications to better serve your changing needs. On a shared host, upgrading in such a way usually involves leaping from one "package" or "plan" to another. These packages are generally preset and may or may not serve your immediate needs. They may be riddled with programs you don't yet need, and yet lack the one singular program you do. Or the next leap up from your current plan has many more disk space and bandwidth than you need at the moment. With a dedicated server and a dedicated web hosting package, you can make changes incrementally, step forward, step back, heck, step sideways if you need to and when you need to.

Speed

If the traffic

• 1
• 2
• next page >>

Add your voice

Know something about Dedicated hosting versus shared hosting?
We want to hear your view. Write now!