Difference between Shared Hosting and Dedicated Hosting

Prerequisite – Types of Web Hosting
Web hosting is the main service required to get/post our information from a web server using a web browser. This serves as an address to retrieve the data located at this place form a large data-server. There are several options of web hosting, let us discuss the primarily used options when you get onto Web.

1. Shared Hosting :
Shared hosting is used to allocate web resources with a group of people. In this hosting web server is distributed with other websites and the resources such as memory options, CPU, and other hosting plugins are provided in sharing basis. These types of hosting are good to start with a low load of websites.
Let us see some pros and cons of using shared hosting.

Pros :

• Low initial cost to pocket.
• Serves as the best advertisement alternatives.
• Suitable for low content websites.

Cons :

• Resources are shared.
• Allocates low bandwidth.
• Performance is less.

2. Dedicated Hosting :
Dedicated hosting is used when we need to have full control over the resources. With this, a dedicated server is issued to you with the access level decided by the service provider. With this hosting need to take care of the services which are issued in your name to its use. This is used for the websites having huge load and content.
Let us see some pros and cons of using dedicated hosting.

Pros :

• Provides the best performance resulting in fast response time.
• Provides necessary business-related services.
• Security is more.

Cons :

• It requires more cost to set up.
• Requires knowledge for perform operations.
• Not ideal for first-time users.

Difference between Shared Hosting and Dedicated Hosting :

S.No.	Shared Hosting	Dedicated Hosting
1	Server and resources are shared with many other clients.	Server and resources are not shared with anyone.
2	One server many websites are being hosted.	One server is dedicated used by an individual.
3	The bandwidth per user is limited.	There is no limit for the bandwidth to use.
4	The storage option is kept limited as to provide equal shares.	The user has full control over the storage options within the server.
5	Performance is low as a full server is used to handle multiple websites.	Performance is much high as a full server is used to handle one website.
6	Maintenance cost is divided among the multiple users which costs less.	Maintenance cost is the responsibility of the user which costs more.
7	The chance of getting into blacklisting is high as multiple websites are running under a single server.	The chance of getting into blacklisting is minimal as only one website is running on a single server.
8	Response time is slow due to more websites.	Response time is fast due to a single website.
9	Security is minimal as resources are shared.	Security is best as a single user has control over the server.
10	Examples – Domain.com, Hostinger shared, iPage, etc.	Examples – Inmotion Hosting, Hostwinds, IONOS hosting, etc.