What is Shared and Dedicated Hosting?

Jan

The main decision you will have to make is if you want shared hosting or dedicated hosting. Many people will begin with a shared hosting plan until they find their feet and their website becomes more popular. Shared hosting is where the server is split up into different partitions with each partition being sold separately.

Dedicated hosting is where you actually hire out your own server within a company. This means that your websites will be the only ones uploaded onto that specific server. The main benefit is that you be able to manage your privacy and security more comprehensively as your details will not be on the same server as anyone else’s. Often the upload and traffic limits are much higher because you are the only person the server has to deal with.