As a business owner, the importance of an effective, functional and engaging website is critical to actual brick and mortar business as well as for ecommerce sites. Determining if a shared server web hosting or dedicated web hosting is an important decision as it will impact website performance and the company’s ability to optimize their site.
Determining if your company can get by with shared hosting, where several companies share a server and use a pool of resources, is a matter of understanding the differences between this option and dedicated hosting. There are several advantages of dedicated web hosting that are well worth considering, particularly for a company that is growing or planning to expand their online presence.
Predictable User Experience
With shared server hosting, no matter how carefully you plan the end-user experience, the other companies also on the server are going to have an impact. This is because they can use large amounts of CPU or RAM on the server, resulting in slow loading pages and problems with displaying specific components of your website.
With the dedicated server, all resources are used exclusively by your website. This allows you to prioritize tasks and to even address peak usage times to avoid any issues with the website.
Specified Security
Through the use of dedicated web hosting, you are in control of the security on the server. The hosting company will maintain basic security on the system, but you can add or enhance security without any complications with other sites.
IP Address on Dedicated Server
With a dedicated server, the company is the only owner of the IP addresses on the server. In other words, there is no risk of a spammer or blacklisted website causing issues for sending or receiving emails or even in displaying your site on specific browsers or devices.
While not every company requires a dedicated server and hosting service, is it an important consideration for many small businesses and a requirement for most mid to large sized companies.