By Lela Perkins


In modern day society, business owners are becoming aware of the importance of a robust Internet presence. Most consumers are migrating and depending upon the Internet for gathering information, receiving services, or making purchases. Businesses owners can use shared website hosting to create a website and meet consumers' expectations.

A webpage is essential to creating a solid customer base, increasing income, and increasing social capital. One of the first considerations that business owners need to undertake is deciding upon the hosting services for the webpages. There are essentially to distinguishable options; shared and dedicated. Shared and dedicated have different features and advantages.

In case you are unfamiliar with the subject, a data center that uses servers for websites is the foundation of where your webpages will reside. Your webpages would ideally contain information and list an array of options which your users can choose from. When you create your webpages, they will be stored in a server disk that is interconnected to the World Wide Web.

As you may or may not know, a server is a part of a hardware network that stores your data, much like your home computer does. It will store and display your pages to anyone looking for it on the World Wide Web. Depending on how your webpages are designed, it will most likely function and respond based on a user's input. A dedicated server is a single server for a your business, and there are virtually no limitations on what you can do with its resources.

If a business is the size of an enterprise or government agency, they would benefit from dedicated server. It enables a company website to host a large amount of traffic in a given moment. This feature is only good for a business if it expects to grow tremendously in a short amount of time. Contrary to sharing, a dedicated server can use any operating system and is free from any limitations imposed by the density of traffic of another business.

Small businesses, startup companies, or small organizations are best suited with the latter. If a webpage or business process is not complicated or expansive, a dedicated server equals wasted space and money. A server that is partitioned, unlike dedicated server, will use a variety of disks that are being used by other businesses as well. Essentially, when websites share a server, it would be used by many different businesses at the same time.

In a server that is being used by different businesses, all of the server's resources are divided proportionally for each business owner. It basically acts on efficient use of its resources. This type of setup is ideal when business owners only want to pay for the resources they are expected to use without the added cost and excess of resources.

For less than enterprise-sized organizations, a shared website hosting plan is the best deal for professional pages. Businesses that do not need a lot of space, memory, and options, should not waste any money or resources on dedicated servers. The sharing plan is affordable and can accommodate more traffic than one might think. The sharing plan is the best choice for aspiring professionals and businesses that may be unfamiliar with how servers and websites work.




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