When deciding on which hosting service to utilize, you will find yourself mulling over whether you should get shared hosting or dedicated server hosting. These two have quite a number of ideal uses and pros as well as cons attached to them. Before you start choosing between these two, let us first understand what each one offers and why you should (or should not) opt for it.
In a nutshell, a shared server is just that, a server that is shared with other websites. Along with the bandwidth and the storage space, the sites that use this particular hosting service also share an IP address. If any of the sites on this shared server were to over-use the space and bandwidth that is equally allocated to all users, problems could arise. Although such over-users are charged for such an act, some of the repercussions you might get from such activity include server crashes, delays on your own site and lack of space for what you need.
For dedicated servers, you have no such issues since you are on it alone. You have your own IP address, and you can do whatever you want with the bandwidth and storage space. The chances of your site crashing or slowing down because of too much activity is also removed since you are the only one using such a server, giving you the freedom to enact whatever changes, additions, fixes and the like you want on it.
Most people argue that dedicated server hosting is not a good idea if you are a fledgling e-commerce site since these are more expensive that shared hosting. While these dedicated servers are indeed more costly than shared ones, the advantage one gets from it usually outweighs the added cost of using one. There are many added costs to having your own dedicated server, such as the need to hire your own webmasters (if you do not have the technical knowledge needed to run the server yourself) and installing your own security programs to it.
These are rather small problems that you encounter with dedicated servers as compared to the issues you are bound to run into when you use a shared server. For one, shared servers can open you up to the possibility of an IP block. Since you all share one IP, if one or more of the sites that share the server with you violate certain rules on the web, search engines can block not only that particular site but also the IP of the site in question. Since you share that same IP, your site will also be blocked by that same search engine.
Another con that comes with the less expensive yet more troublesome shared server hosting is the slow response time and problematic server performance. As mentioned earlier, when one or more of the sites that share the server with you drain the server’s resources, you will find yourself with slow loading times and less storage space. Dedicated servers don’t have these issues.
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