Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Dedicated Servers or Shared Servers

Today all businesses are using the Internet to compete more effectively. They are now able to do this without spending too much of their time and money. PlanetOnline.net has given business establishments, an opportunity to host their website on world class servers at reasonable cost.

Majority of small businesses usually use so-called shared servers, where their website shares a server with the different other websites. Shared servers can cost anywhere between $10 and $100 a month depending on server quality and the hosting plan selected.

Shared web hosting is a cheap solution for small and medium sized businesses. For bigger businesses, “Dedicated Servers” are recommended. Dedicated servers are bit costly affair as compared to shared servers. Choice between dedicated server and shared servers is totally dependent on the web site size, server performance desired and hosting requirements in terms of space, bandwidth desired server security etc. Though shared servers provide a cheap solution for hosting small and medium sized sites, they lack in having access to core administrative functions of server. Server issues are generally handled by a technical support team in case of shared server hosting plans.

Unlike shared servers that hosts thousands of sites of different companies, dedicated servers host just one or two sites of same company. Dedicated servers are considered to be much more safe and fast in comparison of shared servers. When we say fast, it means that in shared hosting environment it is possible that another website is using more resources and thereby rendering your site to be surfed at a slower pace. In case of dedicated servers you may need a server administrator to provide you support. For many companies this may be an unwanted expense and effort. For such companies “Managed Dedicated Hosting” is a great option.

In managed dedicated hosting, the hosting company provides you a dedicated server and their staff manages and administers the hosting server for you. Managed dedicated hosting is bit costly in comparison to simple dedicated hosting.

While choosing any server just be sure that you don’t choose a bad host. Be sure that the server is not banned by various search engines or anti-spam agencies. If the server is banned by search engines, it can be made sure that you won’t get business on that site through search engines like Google. Also, if possible, in case of shared hosting, try to know about others websites that are hosted on the server. If some site is engaged in spamming activities, then it is possible that the whole server gets banned for their miss deeds.

Most of the webs hosting companies provide various plans for web hosting, Depending on your requirement, you can choose them. You may find great plans to suit everyone’s requirement at www.PlanetOnline.net – Number one in Web Hosting.

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