If you want to have your own website after buying a domain, you are going to need a hosting account. When you look for hosting, you might notice that there are different types that you can purchase. Two of the most common types of hosting plans are shared hosting and dedicated hosting. If you are new to all this, you probably need some understanding on what all this means so that you can make the best decision for your site.
What is shared hosting?
To understand what this is, you need a basic knowledge of what a host actually is. In reality when you have a site online, it is sitting on a computer otherwise known as a server somewhere. This computer holds the data for the website and delivers the content to those connecting to the site. A shared hosting plan means that you and other people with other sites are all using that same computer to store and host your websites. This means that they tend to be cheaper since more are using the same machine.
What is dedicated hosting?
Dedicated hosting on the other hand means that you are just using that one machine alone. Since you are not sharing the computer's resources, you can get much better performance just like having one program open on your machine at a time can get you better performance. Since you are essentially renting the entire machine alone, it is going to cost more.
Which one should you get?
If you are just starting your site, there is no need to get dedicated hosting. Shared hosting is much cheaper and provides everything you need.
As your site gets more visitors or as you start adding scripts to the site to perform certain function, you will start to have a need for a dedicated plan. Typically most hosting companies will inform you when you are starting to dominate the shared resources and ask you to move to a dedicated plan.
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