Generally, when you want to host your website, it is going to be either shared or dedicated hosting. 95% of the people decide within these 2.
Share Hosting. Shared hosting is shared among other users. A web host provider will divide a big piece of hosting into smaller partition and will allocate the storage to each user. There might be up to hundreds of website sharing the same resources. Besides, there is only one internet connection linking all the different partitions to the internet. That means all websites hosted under that same big piece of hosting share the same IP address.
The biggest advantage of shared hosting is their price. Since the hosting service is shared among users, the cost follows too. Therefore it can be very cheap, as cheap as $2 per year. Also, it is meant for user-friendly where most of the settings are made default and managed by real veterans. Shared hosting is perfect for beginner.
Although shared hosting sounds great with low pricing and big resources it has disadvantages too. Websites hosted under the same hosting will impact each others. If a website exceeds the usage of the allocated resources other website will be affected; in term of SEO aspect, your site will be affected if your website is hosted together with banned sites; and etc. However, these disadvantages can be easily solved by you picking up a responsible host.
Dedicated Hosting. When you subscribe to dedicated hosting, a dedicated and independent server computer with be purposely set up for you. You own the total space and resources. You have flexibility to do anything with the hosting. The actual benefits you get from it are numerous, including dedicated IP, dedicated bandwidth, dedicated computing power and etc. These are things really important for a huge website.
However, with more flexibility, that means user will need to make more decisions in deciding how the hosting should be. More technical knowledge will be needed to maintain the hosting. Although the staff from a web host company is willing to help but most of the actual work has to be done by you. Also in term of pricing, as opposed to the shared hosting, dedicated hosting is expensive. The price can go up to a few hundred per month.
In conclusion, you need to understand what your needs are. You should go for shared hosting if you have a small to medium size website; you should go for dedicated hosting if you have a huge size website. However, the price for dedicated hosting is not easily bearable for new website. Therefore I suggest them to go with shared hosting first and upgrade to dedicated hosting along the way. Hints: Get a shared hosting provider that allows upgrade.
For your information, 90% of websites owners need only shared hosting. Due to the stiff competition, users nowadays get good value for money in terms of hosting features from it. Therefore for most of the people, the best shared hosting is what they need rather than a good dedicated hosting.
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