Virtual Hosting Checklist
Virtual hosting is an affordable way to start your web hosting
journey. You share your web server with hundreds, or thousands of
other web sites. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Here
is a checklist.
Virtual hosting advantages
Disadvantages and Considerations
Conclusion
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Virtual Hosting Advantages
- Your own domain name.
- Cost effective and affordable, sometimes even free.
- Enough for sites with small traffic and standard features.
- You get lower maintenance costs. Virtual hosting companies provide
standard applications which come together with your web hosting
package. Having standard applications allows them for better support,
and lowers your maintenance costs - your web hosting provider
takes care.
- Virtual hosting is more standard, hence there is a higher number
of applications optimized for shared hosting.
Disadvanteges and Considerations
- CPU resources, network bandwidth and disk storage space are
shared with other sites on the same physical web server.
- You can only install applications which are supported by the
web hosting provider (e.g. if you want a certain statistics package,
make sure it's supported by your selected web hosting provider.
Prepare a list of the applications you need).
- Performance and scalability issues. Shared hosting performance
depends on the volume of traffic of other websites stored on the
same server. When traffic to the other websites grows, your site
may suffer and you will have to find another solution.
- If you need guaranteed / better performance, more customization,
or want to develop your own applications, a virtual
private server is better. For even better performance, consider
a dedicated server.
- Share the server with other users brings security issues. For
higher security, consider a virtual
private server.
Conclusion
- Virtual hosting is a cost-effective way to start if you don't
plan for lots of traffic to start with.
- Plan to migrate later, when traffic grows.
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