Hosting – Shared Server or Dedicated Server

If you’ve chosen for your webdesign to go with a paid website host rather than a free one, you may feel that now you only have two choices for the type of hosting you have: a shared server or a dedicated one. But there’s actually a third way as well, whose advantages fall between those of the other two choices. You might decide to go with a virtual private server instead.

In a shared server arrangement, you and several other websites are all hosted on a single server, sharing all its resources. This is less expensive than other options, but it does raise the specter of your own site operating sluggishly because a neighboring site has a spike in traffic and is currently hogging a high percentage of the resources.

A dedicated server, on the other hand, devotes all its resources to you alone. You can choose to manage it yourself, or have the web host do so, with the different prices those plans would involve. Yet even if you don’t want to share resources with several other websites, you still might not feel you need quite all the resources and power that come with a dedicated server.

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