Sometime a user get confused while buying hosting package for their website. And he has to face many question about them. Few of them questions are:
- Either he should buy VPS hosting or shared hosting?
- What is the major difference among these two type of hosting?
- What is best hosting package for them?
If you also encounter with same type of questions then this article is for you. This article will cover all type of these questions.
Which hosting type is the best?
Answer of this question is very simple neither shared hosting nor VPS hosting is better than the other. It all depends on the unique requirements of the website. Here are some considerations which will determine your hosting package and these are performance of hosting, strict security resources, extremely fast speed, low cost, or scalable resources. Details of these important consideration are below:
Performance
Website performance really matters and its page should upload within seconds it should not take more time. According to research, internet visitors can quit if website take more than 3 seconds to load. It does not have much time to lose. A survey shows that 79% of online shoppers do not return to the website if performance issues occur during use.
Your VPS hosting plan will almost always be faster than your Web hosting plan. This is because users do not need to access and queue with visitors to other sites.
Reliability and Stability
Reliability of any hosting company is related to server availability and frequency of up and down. The availability time is expressed as a percentage, usually equal to or greater than 99.9% for any hosting company.
Server and VPS hosting plans can cause problems with the server. This largely depends on the quality of the server hardware and software, as well as vendor expertise, support, and management practices. However, because there are fewer clients on each server, you can usually reduce the problems of your VPS hosting plan. Each partition can be configured and customized to the most efficient settings for the needs of a specific website or application, and each VPS hosting is typically more secure and reliable.
Think of the wall. If each brick is solid and safe, the walls are strong and fortified. If the brick is broken or missing, the entire structure is in danger. The Web (shared) hosting servers include hundreds of bricks. And each brick is different so reliability is in more danger and stability for such networks will be quite tough.
Security
In the Web (shared) hosting environment, there are usually more security vulnerabilities because there are more sites. More websites offer more opportunities to attackers. In addition, shared hosting clients typically have no experience with web hosting precautions, so hosting vulnerabilities can create server vulnerabilities.
Websites that process a large amount of user data or payment information can help by choosing VPS hosting. This option offers powerful security features, normally managed by experienced professionals. So you do not have to worry about the security of sensitive information.
Price
In general, you can expect to pay more for VPS hosting than shared (web) hosting because the cost of shared hosting is shared among many shared server users. VPS hosting is often more expensive because it provides more resources and tends to be more stable.
Scalability
Scalability is the capacity that your hosting account can accommodate for the growth of your website. This is often a feature you create when you decide to share or install VPS hosting. Scalability has many aspects, including storage and server capabilities.
If you have an average of 10,000 visitors per month, shared hosts can support these usage levels. However, when you develop your website, you may not be able to catch up on your shared web hosting plan. Shared servers limit the ability to support the increased workload, but VPS hosting plans have a relatively large potential in this area.
Resources can often be adapted to different traffic patterns. For example, an e-commerce store needed more bandwidth to handle the rush of Black Friday shoppers. If you plan to add content and traffic, your VPS hosting plan is usually a good investment.
Note: Now all things are clear like black and white, choice is yours which option you have to choose according to your need.
Ashok Arora is CEO and Founder of eWebGuru a leading web hosting company of India. He is a tech enthusiast with more than 25 years of experience in Internet and Technology.
Ashok is Master in Electronics from a leading Indian university.
Ashok loves to write on cloud, servers, datacenter, virtualisation technology.
