There are n numbers of web hosting companies available on the web that offer a wide range of services for all sorts of business. With the development of virtualization technology and reduction of hardware prices, companies are offering dedicated and VPS servers hosting. It supports more power and security, but it should be considered the best option to choose for hosting of your business website. Web Hosting: It is a service that provides a space on the server for the websites. If you design a website and want people to look then you need to publish it using a web hosting service.
Shared Hosting: In shared hosting, multiple websites, database, email users share the same server hardware. It permits single servers to be shared among many customers without breach of security of individual websites.
Dedicated Server: In dedicated server, a single server is dedicated to one client. Therefore, it is costly and required more maintenance. User get full control to the server and it is normally responsible for the server updates, security and backups.
Unless there is a particular reason to opt for a dedicated server hosting then shared hosting is a far better option for many websites. In shared hosting customer get more support, free server maintenance, server backups and server monitoring. However, web hosting companies are responsible for uptime of all websites hosted with them. For that, they perform some task for maintenance of the server.
• Hardware monitoring: For. e.g, Monitoring RAM failure, hard drives, etc.
• Software monitoring – The web server, database, email services continues to run.
• Service monitoring - If web server becomes unresponsive, failed services are automatically restarted and service logs investigate in order to fix the issue and prevent it from happening in the future.
• Powerful account management tools, including data backup and restore features.
There are some companies that offer managed dedicated hosting, but extra service is included in the price that customers pay for their servers. In the dedicated server, it includes hardware maintenance and customer needs to monitor regularly and need to know what failed before they can request to fix. In short, customers need to pay for extra service in the dedicated server.
• Hardware monitoring (how will you know if your ram is faulty or the whole server is overheating?)
• Service monitoring: If your website goes down, then who is responsible to login and give the site back up?
• Security maintenance: If the server is hacked then who will login to investigate the problem?
In the light of above key points, you can see that shared hosting is the best option for most of the business and personal websites.