Why Shared Website Hosting Makes Sense

By Lela Perkins


In modern day society, business owners are becoming aware of the importance of a robust Internet presence. Most consumers are migrating and depending upon the Internet for gathering information, receiving services, or making purchases. Businesses owners can use shared website hosting to create a website and meet consumers' expectations.

You probably use webpages daily. Think about how many times you have purchased an item online from the same company, subscribed to a company's daily newsletter; discuss subjects on forums, etc. Imagine if there were thousands of people doing that to your website a day. Depending on the nature and size of your business, you would have to decide between a dedicated server and a sharing plan.

In case you are unfamiliar with the subject, a data center that uses servers for websites is the foundation of where your webpages will reside. Your webpages would ideally contain information and list an array of options which your users can choose from. When you create your webpages, they will be stored in a server disk that is interconnected to the World Wide Web.

The server itself is a machine that can hold large amounts of data, much like a computer. It hosts the webpages and responds to user queries by providing the information stored in its disks. It essentially holds the webpages, its interactions, and functions that users see when they browse the internet. A dedicated server is a single machine for a single company's site, and it hosts a wide range of compatibility and benefits.

If a business is the size of an enterprise or government agency, they would benefit from dedicated server. It enables a company website to host a large amount of traffic in a given moment. This feature is only good for a business if it expects to grow tremendously in a short amount of time. Contrary to sharing, a dedicated server can use any operating system and is free from any limitations imposed by the density of traffic of another business.

Sharing a server is ideal for small businesses, small organizations, and start up companies. If a business does not intend on traffic explosion, does not use complex programming, and does not foresee great expansion, then a dedicated server would be for naught. When business webpages are sharing a server, everything is partitioned proportionally and is distributed equally among the businesses.

In a server that is being used by different businesses, all of the server's resources are divided proportionally for each business owner. It basically acts on efficient use of its resources. This type of setup is ideal when business owners only want to pay for the resources they are expected to use without the added cost and excess of resources.

A shared website hosting plan can always be converted into a dedicated server, as long as you contact your service provider about the changes. If your business does not need a lot of options, space, or memory, dedicated plans would be a waste of your time and money. You might think that a sharing plan is not much in regards of data. If you are inexperienced in information technology, it is actually more than you think.




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