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The Fierce Data Battle Between Shared Servers And Dedicated Hosting

There are several benefits and drawbacks to owning and running your own servers as opposed to running your site on shared servers, but either strategy will work for businesses and individuals running at different levels. Consider some of these comparison points to determine what’s best for you.

Shared Hosting

Sharing servers saves on overhead costs. You pay a third-party service provider, with their own rack server, to host your site on their equipment. You won’t need to buy routers, firewalls or backup hardware, which can be a hefty expense for small companies. This setup is great for small businesses just starting out because the hosting company pays all the hardware costs to maintain the servers, security measures, bandwidth, backups and any other services you contract from them.

Hosting companies often have better resources. Larger companies can often afford costlier, high-performance equipment that will serve your web-pages faster than your own hardware ever could. Large data-centers are usually located on a backbone-connection, too, which comes with also enhances your site’s response times. For some businesses, better performance can translate into significant gains in revenue.

Shared services often come with limits. Your provider may throttle your bandwidth at a certain level or limit your disk-space on their hardware. And if you share a server with a high-traffic, high-bandwidth site, your site’s traffic will be competing for RAM and CPU time.

Dedicated Hosting

You’ll have more control. On your own rack server, you control every aspect of site operation and resource management. You also manage your bandwidth, so you don’t have to compete with other sites using the same server. When you own the hardware, you can run demanding applications, like e-commerce software, without restrictions.

The benefits come with a price tag. Dedicated servers and their associated equipment are a big up-front cost that needs to be budgeted for. Depending on the size of your implementation and how many rack servers you maintain, you’ll need skilled personnel to maintain and troubleshoot the equipment. A server environment has to be maintained, and the larger your site and traffic, the more potential problems you’ll have monitoring bugs and pulling the best possible performance from your hardware.

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Teresa Dahl is a stay at home mommy, who enjoys writing about technology.

8 Comments

8 Comments

  1. Pingback: Data Battle: Shared Servers vs. Dedicated Hosting

  2. Jasmine

    October 30, 2011 at 3:12 am

    Shared hosting is definitely most cost effective and is the best option for individual bloggers and small businesses. Dedicated hosting is always much more expensive and requires a lot of manpower to maintain.

  3. Abu

    October 31, 2011 at 6:51 am

    Sharing is good. thank you

  4. Addy Miller

    October 31, 2011 at 7:24 am

    Very vivid comparison. I had some issues with how a shared hosting and dedicated works, but they are clear now. Deciding on the hosting depends on the requirements and resources needed.

  5. jorge

    October 31, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    hardly ever notice that battle though.. 😉

  6. Fortunato

    October 31, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    Nice post!Shared hosting is definitely most cost effective and is the best option for individual bloggers and small businesses…

  7. kevin

    November 1, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    I definitely agree, the cost is what makes us choose between them.

  8. Max

    November 1, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Why does shared web hosting offer unlimited bandwidth but dedicated servers or VPS hosting does not?

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