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Shared Or Dedicated Web Hosting? What Does Your Business Need
It's embarrassing, time consuming and not to mention costly if
you are missing out on sales.
On the other side of the scale, it can be very costly to be on a
larger web hosting plan or dedicated server and hardly even use
the services it offers.
Good quality web hosting is not cheap, but you need to balance
your business needs with what you can really afford to pay.
So what web hosting service should you be using? Good question!
In this article I'm going to be talking about the pro's and
con's of both shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting
packages. By the end of the article you should have some idea
what your online business needs now and what it will need when
it expands.
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is what most small online businesses use. Shared
hosting means that your site is on one server that also holds
other peoples websites as well. Your website will not be the
only one on that server. Very few small online businesses need
the power of a dedicated server.
Most companies offer a few different types of shared web hosting
services. The only difference usually being how much disk space
you want or how much transfer allowance you need.
The best way to show you what the difference is between shared
hosting services is to show you an example.
Go to http://www.marblehost.com/hosting-plans.php
This is an example web hosting companies shared hosting
services. As you can see they offer two different types of
shared hosting services. Basically they offer a small and large
service.
The major differences between each package really is how many
domain names you can host, how much transfer (how many megabytes
that are downloading from your website) you can have and how
much disk space (how many files you can store) you need.
If you're just starting out online and haven't got a website up
yet and not sure what you are doing exactly, start off with the
small plan. That's more then enough for a small site or blog for
that matter.
Now if you run a larger website and you offer a lot of
downloads, say for example you're selling a rather large ebook,
you might need the large service. Let's say you have a 10mb
ebook for sale, the large service this company offers would
allow you to have roughly 2000 downloads of that package before
you ran out of bandwidth (transfer).
Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting is for the big boys. It's for medium to big
business looking to do a lot of work online. A dedicated server
is just that, you're own server. You get your own server just
for your website which is unlike shared hosting as you have to
share a server.
There are many different packages available with dedicated
hosting depending on how much you want to spend. The more
resources a server has, IE, RAM, Hard drive space, processor
speed, the more it will cost.
You can see that a dedicated server allows you a lot more disk
space and transfer allowance. It also allows you unlimited
domain names. Dedicated servers are also known to be a lot more
stable and allow you more control over your website and are
perfect for a professional image.
There are two types of dedicated servers....
Managed hosting
Managed hosting offers you the support of a technical team
looking after your server. They do all the updates and technical
side of things for you. They will perform routine maintenance
without you even asking. Managed hosting how ever does cost
quite a lot more then un-managed usually.
Un-managed hosting
Un-managed hosting isn't as support less as it sounds. Most
dedicated servers do come with technical assistance and routine
maintenance, but any support questions will more then likely
cost you extra. If you need something added to your server, it
will cost you a in maintenance fee's. Rebooting your server
should also come free with un-managed dedicated hosting.
Multiple Domain Name Hosting
Another thing you should look at is whether or not you want to
host multiple domain names with your one hosting package. Both
shared hosting and dedicated hosting can allow you to do this. A
lot of share hosting services now allow this.
I recommend always using a web host that allows you to have
multiple domain names with your one account. It really does
solve the problem of having multiple hosting accounts for
different domain names.
Other Things To Look For
Other things to think about when searching for a web hosting
company is what you intend to do with your website.
Do you need a lot of technical assistance? If so, look for a
hosting company with live 24/7 support. Do you want to create a
blog, or lot's of blogs? Then you will need to see if your web
hosting company allows you to setup multiple MYSQL databases.
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