VPS Hosting Or Dedicated Hosting

If you are using shared hosting and your website is getting slower lately especially when you have a lot of visitors, then it is the time for you to upgrade your account to VPS hosting or lease a full-blown server by upgrading to a dedicated hosting. Before you upgrading your account, you must understand what VPS and dedicated hosting is so you will not make a mistake of upgrading to the wrong service.

Here are the overview for each service and what it is good for:

VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting

VPS, just like its name is a server that runs on a virtual environment set in a host server. So one host server is partitioned and in each partition runs one VPS server, this type of web hosting is more powerful than shared hosting because you will have more resource dedicated to you. VPS acts like a full server so you can install your operating system of choice and also its supporting application, not all application can run on virtual environment especially anti virus program so make sure all your application can operate on a virtual environment.

You need to have some technical expertise to run a virtual server because it acts like a real server, you have to maintain it like a real server too so you need to know how to install updates, troubleshooting and other software maintenance. If maintaining a server is not your expertise don't need to worry because there is a managed VPS service where the hosting provider will take all the server maintenance for an added fee.

VPS is your choice if your website need more space (ex. for your collection of hundreds high resolution pictures) and for web developers to host their web projects because VPS can be set to their requirements.

Dedicated Server/Hosting

On dedicated hosting, you lease an entire server for your website and off course this also means you have a full server capability that is not shared with anyone at your disposal. Dedicated server/hosting allow you to set the server based on your preference such as operating system, installed applications, and what service is running. There's also type of service for dedicated server the unmanaged and managed service.

The unmanaged service means that after the service provider installed your operating system, application that you requested and after they give you a way to remotely maintain your server you are left alone. Technical knowledge is a must because you maintain your server by yourself. On the other hand, the managed service is where the service provider take care all the server maintenance for you, this service is more expensive, but recommended for you who have no or limited technical skill.

Dedicated server/hosting is suggested for large e-commerce websites and websites with heavy multimedia task such as streaming audio and video, these kinds of websites need more resource and reliability that only a dedicated server can provide.

When your website performance start to degrading don't take the risk of staying with shared hosting, it will take more money, but it's better than losing your visitors and customers. Use dedicated server if you have a large e-commerce or multimedia websites and use VPS if you need more space for your multimedia files or if you are a web developer, to host your web projects.

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