Moving from Shared Hosting to a Dedicated Server

February 2014

There are many popular sites that advertise shared hosting for $10 per month. But how far does that $10 stretch and what is covered? It means that there are literally over a thousand sites using the same machine for hosting and here are some issues that you may face as a result:

Slower Responses: Given that a physical web server is shared, websites in the shared web hosting have to accept slower server response times when compared to dedicate server hosting.

Reliability Issues: In many cases, web hosting providers take care of the security and performance of the shared server. But, it may happen that some websites hosted on the shared server run a malicious program/script or over-utilize the resources which can bring down the web server. As a result, your website can suffer downtimes and inaccessibility, making you look unprofessional and cause you to loose credibility in the eyes of potential clients.

Sharing Issues: All you need is one "bad" website in your shared web server to get your website banned altogether by ISP or search engine due to shared IP address. It is not enough to merely have a website, but having your website show up in search engines when certain keywords are entered is critical. Not knowing which other sites are hosted by your shared web server, and therefore having a "bad" site negatively impact SEO is unacceptable, and costly to reverse.

Security Issues: Shared web hosting is more risky and opens up potential security issues because other web masters have an account on the same web server. You could run the risk of someone hacking to your sensitive data.

Robust sites: Many of the sites we build have advanced functions to enhance the user experience and improve client's business process. Such sites would not be able to be supported on shared hosting machines.

With all of that being said, who is shared hosting good for?

Shared hosting works well for hobby/personal sites, where security and reliability is not crucial. Because it doesn't matter if your personal site is down for a few hours. However, it does matter for a business site!

Due to the misconception on the lower cost of hosting, the IDS team has created a model to provide hosting as part of our support. When our clients spend a certain amount of money and time on a website they need the most reliable infrastructure. Our servers are dedicated servers; they are significantly more powerful than the highest shared hosting servers being advertised online and on TV.

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