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Shared Vs Dedicated Hosting
When you first start thinking about building your first website you are confronted with a lot of choices. You must choose one domain, but also somebody to register that domain name. You must decide on whether you use a CMS tool like Joomla or a blog engine like Wordpress, or maybe you buy a nice template and use that. One of the most important choices you'll have to make is your hosting service. The right hosting service can be the difference between spending time installing and configuring your site and spend time adding content.
Once you've chosen your hosting service you will ask yourself one important question. Should I opt for shared hosting or dedicated hosting? There is not an easy one or the other answer. In fact, I even have problems with the generic phrasing so you can size your situation and decide, but I will set a few rules and gotcha's and see where we finish.
On the surface looks much shared hosting. For example, use of Go Daddy shared hosting plan only $ 3.99 per Mon The plan will 5GB of disk space and 250GB bandwidth. For a little more, $ 6.99 you get 100GB disk and 1000 GB bandwidth. Now, I just used Go Daddy as an example, but Host Gator and others are similar, some with slightly higher prices and some with slightly lower, but all have the same rules.
Hidden somewhere in your shared hosting agreement will be a clause about not hogging system resources. What that means is that even if your site is not occupied 99% of the time, if you have a large peak they You have the right to close. You see, the factor to be concerned not with the bandwidth or disk storage, the CPU cycles. It is not the average CPU cycles over the months, if you spike even for a short time all your shared hosting services will be closed.
How do I know about the shared host shutdown? It happened twice to me. I'm not complaining, that is the price of a successful website while paying for the bargain basement hosting. In my one case I stopped because I've had 8000 hits in about one hours. My daily average is about 500 hits. It seems that the blog engine I was in too much CPU time was used on my shared host, so they shut me down. Okay, so you think you can go at it and if you about 7000 you can switch to dedicated. Maybe that will work, but in another case, I ended with only 346 hits. Now for the 346 hit case my host sent me the log file and in my eyes it seems that I made use much CPU at all. It showed my account with 100% for CPU, 2 seconds. It also showed (in another case) my process 29 seconds, but with 0% CPU. I think this was a case of mistaken identity. They saw that their server was slow and looked long running processes, but did not look at the actual proposed cycles. The long wait by the way was due to a YouTube vid running on my site.
So, after a full two years on shared hosting accounts, from two different companies, it was time to try my hand at dedicated hosting. One thing you should know about dedicated hosting is that you use and responsible for all aspects of the profession. This means that you "root". There is no other control processes hanging, nobody else installing software for you, but the best part is nobody kicking you out for the use of too much CPU for 10 seconds of the Mon
My shared hosting accounts $ 6.99 and $ 10 (total of $ 17/month). My new dedicated hosting account started at $ 79/month, but I pushed the memory and CPU on the box and the final price is $ 111/month. This is a huge difference when you start out, and the first year I saved $ 1200 going on that way, but now I feel ahead of my websites I have the freedom that allows dedicated hosting. Freedom have a busy day, freedom succeed.
I would not to the way you shared hosting if you're just starting. It is a great way to get your feet wet, make a proof of concept and build your knowledge as your budget low. Many small business or personal pages may never need more than a shared hosting account. For me, one years on shared hosting gave my small company sufficient time to grow enough for me to justify paying for dedicated hosting.
As a final comment, I continued moving my shared hosting accounts on my dedicated hosting account has about two weeks. The first few days was experimenting and learning, followed by a few days moving my best performing sites and has spent the last week moving the rest of my web sites, cleaning and security do more learning. Eventually I chose Go Daddy as my dedicated host. I thought she deserved, at least when they close me down to 8000 visitors it was possible that I was over stressing my shared account. As for the other company, person close to me down the log when nothing came to 350 hits, sometimes you you just one error in the Web site if your company is having the best day ever and your host close you down without good reason, it is time to move on.