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In dedicated hosting, you have a server that is all your own. Only your website runs on it so you aren’t impacted by what others do. But while price is really the only good aspect of shared hosting, it is really one of the few downfalls of dedicated hosting...
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Web hosting options explained: Part 2 Dedicated Hosting In dedicated hosting, you have a server that is all your own. Only your website
runs on it so you aren’t impacted by what others do. But while price is really
the only good aspect of shared hosting, it is really one of the few downfalls
of dedicated hosting. The costs for dedicated hosting can be much higher
than shared because now you are carrying the burden of paying for the
hardware, software and maintenance (all included in the pricing plan you agree
to).
But the upside is that you are free to use as much bandwidth as you pay for.
Also the performance of your website is entirely up to you and how well you
design it. If you have a high traffic site, or mission critical web applications for
your business, then dedicated hosting may be worth the additional costs. There
is one other downside to dedicated hosting: location. When your website
resides on a dedicated server, visitors must access it at that single location.
So if your website is hosted on a server in London and you have a visitor from
Hong Kong, they will have a much slower load time than someone in
Cambridge. This is just the nature of the Internet and the time it takes to
travel along the network from one location to another. So if you need to make
sure your website and content are accessible from anywhere in the world
in a reasonable amount of time, you might want to consider CDN, or
Content Delivery Hosting
Content Delivery Content delivery is crucial to your user’s experience. If slick, fast, uninterrupted it
will present your content in the best possible quality. Achieving this will reflect
well upon you, your business and your services and products. A poor quality
delivery that stops and starts, falls over from time to time and fails to do you
justice will quickly turn your viewers and listeners against you.
So an efficient, fast and reliable Content Delivery Network, aka CDN, is essential
if you wish to present rich content on the web. Whether this is video, sound or
complex graphics or animation, the same requirements exist.
Whereas in the past individual web servers were used to host this kind of
content, the modern way is to use a global Content Delivery Network. Whereas
a dedicated server is vulnerable to breakdown and is only likely to provide a fast
service in its own location a CDN is made up many servers linked together as a
cloud across all continents. This brings two great benefits. Firstly one or more
pieces of hardware can fail but other parts of the network can take up the slack
meaning that 100% uptime can be guaranteed. Secondly because the CDN is
spread across the world each viewer will access your content from the nearest
point to them. So someone in the Far East might access a node of the network
located in Singapore, whereas a European viewer might access London or
Amsterdam.
The most common use of a Content Delivery Network is to serve up video
content but it can also bring advantages to busy websites and ecommerce
stores. Imagine a busy online store with high quality images of the products for
sale. Whilst the basic pages might be served to the visitor from a conventional
web server the images might be served from a CDN, maintaining high speed
page loading even for heavy duty images.