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Advantages and Disadvantages of Dedicated Web Hosting
Web hosting is a classification of internet hosting services that provides network services for each individuals and several organization to have its own websites to stay connected with the world through World Wide Web. It is further divided into three primarily types, such as dedicated web hosting, virtual web hosting and clustered web hosting. Clustered web hosting is a kind of web hosting which spreads the load over nodes, provides result in decreasing the chances of ones service & increases availability. Virtual web hosting is otherwise called as shared hosting.
Dedicated web hosting is most commonly used web hosting type among all the three primary types as it found to be more advantageous to the users. It has an other name, called managed web hosting.
Advantages of dedicated web hosting:
Compared to virtual (or) shared, clustered web hosting provides a lot of flexibility or control over your web server. The greatest flexibility is deserved by the user of the dedicated web hosting server.
Dedicated web hosting services provided by the company will not share their websites between various customers.
Since it is not a shared server, even the customer having virtual web hosting server cannot share the hard drive, processor or bandwidth as well as its application.
Dedicated web hosting is superior to virtual web hosting server, it cannot access to the control over dedicated web hosting server configuration.
It provides safety by allowing only the particular customer who uses the dedicated web hosting server to have the complete server control for their administrative purpose.
The specialty of their web hosting is that, the user of this web hosting owns the server and they themselves are web hosting clients, so that have a complete cover over hardware management
Dedicated web hosting server provides an option to the user to perform his own upgrades and install their own software.
As you are the only customer using this server, you dont have to share the resources like hard drive &bandwidth applications, which gives you more space, more efficient and also speed of processing your database, email and also website application.
When the advanced business aided with the needs of custom engineering & design and a lot of space to store it, dedicated web hosting is the correct choice, since the clustered web hosting is rarely used.
It is the best option for you to select dedicated web hosting server for your websites which provides download compatibilities for customer because of its fewer bandwidth restrictions compared with the other two web hostings.
If your business website contains multiple website then custom applications, increased web hosting space &speed is needed , that is provided by dedicated web hosting.
Disadvantages of dedicated web hosting:
It is costlier than the virtual web hosting
It is suitable for most internet based business, but it is not recommended for business which is advanced & requires custom engineering & design using other web hosting server, called clustered hosting server.
If a user is initiator in internet based business, virtual web hosting is cost efficient and sufficient, so dedicated web hosting is only a best option, until the user makes progress in his business level and switches his business of using multiple websites.
For long term internet business plans, upgrade of dedicated web hosting is needed in future with respect to relative to cost.
Web Hosting Comments – What Do They Tell Us?
It is interesting to sit and read user web hosting comments about various hosting companies. Obviously there are some companies that provide a poor service and attract a lot of negative comments but looking at the top companies the key difference seems to be the quality of support and how it is delivered.
The top companies seem to receive overwhelmingly positive web hosting comments from their customers and even the ones with many negative reviews still have some very satisfied customers.
When customers get angry and post very negative web hosting comments the issue is usually not that a problem occurred but that the support team were unhelpful and unable to resolve it. It is highly likely that if the initial problem had been resolved properly the users would have written a positive review rather than a negative one.
As hosting is a long distance purchase (maybe in another country) users feel powerless if they are being ignored and vent their feelings by telling the world to avoid their appalling host.
Apart from complaints about their site being down for one reason or another many negative web hosting comments are about financial matters. This often relates to cancellations and refunds.
It would be very interesting to hear the hosting companies side of some of these web hosting comments as I can see that in some cases they were simply applying the conditions set out in their Terms of Service. These, for example, set out the process for cancellation and what refunds will be given. One particular issue seems to be cancellations where a domain name is included in the package. A host’s website may say that a money back guarantee relates to hosting costs (i.e there is a charge for the domain name) but many users think a “money back guarantee” is just that.
It is normal for users of shared hosting to be responsible for their own backups. This does not mean that hosts will not take backups but that they do it without accepting any liability for lost data. It is clear from several web hosting comments that many users do not understand this.
All this reinforces my view that the most important criteria to apply when choosing a hosting company is the quality of their support (assuming of course that they meet your technical requirements). You must expect support to be available 24/7 by telephone as well as email and probably chat and you want to see good web hosting comments about the support from existing users. It is also well worthwhile reading the Terms of Service, you will then be aware of any “hidden” charges and what the responsibilities of each party are.