The Dilemma of Choosing Between A Dedicated Server and Shared Server
I have come across many web site owners, who are pretty much new to IT and its terminologies and have hard time in choosing between a shared server and dedicated server for their site. By writing this blog I hope to make life easier when it comes to choosing between a dedicated server and shared server.
In a typical shared server concept, your web site will have to share server space with many other web sites. This essentially means that your web site will not consume the entire bandwidth, which translates into a “not so good” user experience for your site’s visitors. The data transfer rates will be low and impatient visitors may leave your site without even waiting to get the information they wanted. In other word you stand to loose a lead or a potential customer. A poorly built website will consume and tend to utilize the servers resources like CPU and memory for a longer time. Imagine a scenario where the server your website shares is also hosting a poorly built website. A dedicated server on the other hand will only be hosting your website and thus eliminating any of the above mishaps.
Security is a major concern while opting for a shared server. Your website becomes an easy target if any of the other web sites running on the server that you share gets affected with virus or is hacked. There is every possibility that when your web site gets affected your visitors too get affected. This will not help in maintaining a healthy reputation. What good will it do to your business if virus infects your site visitors because they stopped by your web site? Hence a dedicated server is always better when you want to build a good online brand image and boost your business.
Users these days are highly impatient and your reputation will take a hit if there are issues like page rendering being slow or frequent error messages due to the slow bandwidth etc. Browsing through your web site must be a pleasant experience. Navigating through various pages of your website must be seamless. Only a dedicated server can provide a high quality browsing experience making sure all your site visitors leave your site feeling happy!
For any business to succeed there must be a strong customer care team. The team must be equipped with relevant skills to handle any customer questions or queries. Here again a dedicated server will help your cause. Shared servers tend to be slow as data transfer rates are split and accessing your own business data might become a tedious process, wasting valuable customer time. A dedicated server will help fetch your business data faster leading to quick turn around times for customer service. The reason being only your team will be utilizing the server’s resources leading to faster query and response time.
That said, for top web hosting, you need to consider reliable stable web hosting companies that offer more value to hosting services. A list of good dedicated web hosting companies always help.
Did this blog post give you enough inputs that will help you choose between a shared server and dedicated server? Did I miss any critical point? Let me know by leaving a comment below.
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