Know It All Marketing

The World Wide Web is an amazing thing; with just a computer and an internet connection, you have access to millions of websites and all of the information and entertainment they have to offer. Unlike resources in the real world, these sites never close and can be visited any time of day or night, any time of the year. Websites are available at all times because these sites are hosted on web servers; computers which are designed to stay up and running and connected to the net at all times. Since your home computer isnt really made for the job, you’ll need to purchase web hosting services to get your site up and running.

Web hosting companies offer various plans of services which keep your site running and available to visitors. There are free web hosting providers out there, but these services are notoriously unreliable. Most web hosting companies do offer some low-cost starter packages, but they also offer more comprehensive packages including dedicated web hosting.

A dedicated web hosting plan has nearly the same specifications as the shared plan, but the site is stored in its own dedicated server. A dedicated server should be your choice if the following are all true.

You Need Your Site To Be Safe

To make sure that your website is safe, you need to make sure that your database is protected with strong passwords and that any web applications you use are of the latest version to avoid serious exploits. But even if your website is well protected and your site is hosted on a cheaper shared server, you can still feel the impact of any attacks that are made to other sites that are hosted on the same server. But if you have your own dedicated server, there should be nothing to worry about if you keep your site secure because your site is the only one occupying the server.

You Want The Highest Performance For Your Site’s Visitors

When traffic accumulates in a single website, the performance isnt affected all that much if the server specifications are high. But once you have lots of websites stored in that server and all the websites get large amounts of traffic, all visitors will suffer from slower speeds. This may not be very noticeable for simple page loading, but if your site has lots of multimedia content, slowdowns can occur and may frustrate your visitors. With a dedicated server, all of the servers resources are for your website ensuring maximum performance even during heavy traffic periods.

You Need Total Control Over Your Web Server

A shared web hosting server gives you a lot of freedom in uploading websites, web applications, and controlling the privileges from there. However, if you want to change certain server specific settings like VPS and root privileges for multiple webmasters to manage your website, it is better to get a dedicated server. Companies and businesses managing their own websites will find them easier to manage in a dedicated server.

If these statements are not all true for your site, then you may be able to stay with shared hosting; but if all are true, you will need to have a dedicated server for your site. Shared hosting is ideal when you’re just getting started but at some point, you’ll want the security, control and performance you can only get with a dedicated server.