By far the most cost effective means to get your web site on the web nowadays is to use what’s called shared hosting. Shared hosting is where a net hosting company rents you a certain quantity of disk space in which to store the files that make up your web site and permit you a certain amount of bandwidth (ie. the data transfered between your web site and your visitors browsers) in exchange for a monthly fee. Generally speaking, the more you pay the more web space and bandwidth you will be given.
There are even deals around where you’re offered ‘unlimited’ disk space and bandwidth for a incredibly tiny sum of cash every month. A lot of individuals are pleased with what they get, however many others have found out when actually trying to use large amounts of space or bandwidth that if it sounds too good to be true then it normally is!
One of the features of a shared hosting account is that, because it’s name implies, you are sharing the disk space and bandwidth with lots of different users. As I’m positive you can appreciate, when an application is thrashing your hard disk on your own PC, or using up a lot of memory, then your PC slows down significantly and will seem to grind to a halt at times. Well, this situation is pretty much the same with shared hosting. You can find yourself on a server with other users who have memory or CPU intensive applications, or popular sites that have lots of visitors, that means heaps of disk activity. The end result is that the responsiveness of your website is impacted.
A further drawback with shared hosting is that you may be unaware of who precisely you are sharing with. If you discover that your website drops suddenly in Google that could be for the reason that you have done something Google does not approve of. On the other hand it might be that the IP address you are sharing with all the other sites on your server has been identified as a source of spam or malware.
So what is the solution?
Well lots of folks are happy with taking the risks related to shared hosting, but for others some type of cheap dedicated hosting provides a low value response to their problems. You’ll would like to make your mind up if you need Linux server hosting or Windows server hosting, but that decision should be driven by the applications that you wish to run, as they will likely be Windows only or Linux only.
A virtual dedicated server is the next step up from shared hosting and will cost you a bit more money. With a virtual shared server you still will not have a physical server all to yourself, but you’ll have far more control over your hosting environment and you’ll eradicate virtually every one of the problems associated with shared hosting, and you will have your own IP address. For the small amount extra (it can be sometimes around $20 – $30 a month extra) that a virtual dedicated server costs this can be a worthwhile investment.
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