As both the consumer and the industry have matured, the packages & features offered by web hosting companies have also evolved. Today, there is a wide variety of web hosting and even more sub-divisions that can be overwhelming even for a technical person. In this article of Know your web hosting, we will explain the difference between VPS hosting and shared hosting. This will help you in deciding your web hosting correctly the next time around.
The main difference between VPS Hosting and Shared Hosting is the way the web servers are configured. Both hosting types allow a single web server to be shared by many clients. What separates them is that in VPS hosting, the web server is partitioned in such a way that each partition serves as Virtual Dedicated Server allowing for maximum freedom and functionality to a web hosting client. On the other hand, shared web hosting plans operate on a single web server with a single operating system and multiple websites sharing its resources. This means that Virtual Private Server share just hardware resources whereas in shared hosting all resources like hardware and software are shared. This increases the probability of server crash.
The Virtual Private Server (VPS) is designed to be cheaper than a dedicated web server, by allowing multiple clients to share the hardware resources of one computer, yet with a high level of privacy and insulation for each client. This separation is achieved by running a complete separate operating system for each customer. Each VPS client has a root level access and enjoys many advantages of a dedicated server, at a much economical prices. Each Virtual Private Server has its own IP address, users, groups, ports, firewall rules, files, and libraries. Except for hardware very little of software resources are shared, increasing the reliability of web hosting.
Shared hosting is perfect for first time website owners with websites which will consume very little resources. Since, it’s also the most economical and easy to use, it also makes more sense for majority of website owners. But, there are some drawbacks which make it unsuitable for high volume website or website in which uptime is very critical. In shared hosting, all websites mostly share the same IP and server hostname. This makes your website more vulnerable because if the single IP is the target of a DDOS attack, all websites hosted on that IP may be offline until the attack is blocked. In many cases an IP is blacklisted due to spamming activity of a single client. If you also shared that blacklisted IP then your emails will also blacklisted.
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