| When it comes to picking a hosting for your website, | | | | allocated resources other website will be affected; in |
| there is always a general confusion especially for | | | | term of SEO aspect, your site will be affected if |
| newbie. "How come there are so many different | | | | your website is hosted together with banned sites; |
| type of hosting like shared hosting, dedicated hosting, | | | | and etc. However, these disadvantages can be easily |
| reseller hosting and etc?", the newbie asks. Well, | | | | solved by you picking up a responsible host. |
| those are different products serving different needs | | | | Dedicated Hosting |
| of websites. The next question pops up, "what are | | | | When you subscribe to dedicated hosting, a |
| my needs?" | | | | dedicated and independent server computer with be |
| Generally, when you want to host your website, it is | | | | purposely set up for you. You own the total space |
| going to be either shared or dedicated hosting. 95% | | | | and resources. You have flexibility to do anything |
| of the people decide within these 2. | | | | with the hosting. The actual benefits you get from it |
| Share Hosting | | | | are numerous, including dedicated IP, dedicated |
| Shared hosting is shared among other users. A web | | | | bandwidth, dedicated computing power and etc. |
| host provider will divide a big piece of hosting into | | | | These are things really important for a huge website. |
| smaller partition and will allocate the storage to each | | | | However, with more flexibility, that means user will |
| user. There might be up to hundreds of website | | | | need to make more decisions in deciding how the |
| sharing the same resources. Besides, there is only | | | | hosting should be. More technical knowledge will be |
| one internet connection linking all the different | | | | needed to maintain the hosting. Although the staff |
| partitions to the internet. That means all websites | | | | from a web host company is willing to help but most |
| hosted under that same big piece of hosting share | | | | of the actual work has to be done by you. Also in |
| the same IP address. | | | | term of pricing, as opposed to the shared hosting, |
| The biggest advantage of shared hosting is their | | | | dedicated hosting is expensive. The price can go up |
| price. Since the hosting service is shared among | | | | to a few hundred per month. |
| users, the cost follows too. Therefore it can be very | | | | In conclusion, you need to understand what your |
| cheap, as cheap as $2 per year. Also, it is meant for | | | | needs are. You should go for shared hosting if you |
| user-friendly where most of the settings are made | | | | have a small to medium size website; you should go |
| default and managed by real veterans. Shared hosting | | | | for dedicated hosting if you have a huge size |
| is perfect for beginner. | | | | website. However, the price for dedicated hosting is |
| Although shared hosting sounds great with low pricing | | | | not easily bearable for new website. Therefore I |
| and big resources it has disadvantages too. Websites | | | | suggest them to go with shared hosting first and |
| hosted under the same hosting will impact each | | | | upgrade to dedicated hosting along the way. Hints: |
| others. If a website exceeds the usage of the | | | | Get a shared hosting provider that allows upgrade. |