| Dedicated Hosting | | | | address as well as the bandwidth. One of the |
| In dedicated hosting, the user is allowed to use | | | | problems of shared hosting is that the used of |
| entire server and have complete control over the | | | | limited bandwidth may often affect the traffic |
| features of the server as well as on all the tools | | | | movement to the site. |
| and applications associated with it. At the same | | | | Risk Components |
| time the resources and IP address are always | | | | A few risks are also associated with the shared |
| unique. While this type of hosting is very efficient, | | | | hosting process. Poorly programmed scripts by |
| flexible, and secure, they are also expensive. | | | | one of the users can affect the entire server and |
| | | | thereby the sites of other users as well. In worst |
| Multiple sites are hosted simultaneously on the | | | | cases the site could even become unavailable at |
| same server in shared web hosting. Resources | | | | times. Similarly, if one of the sharers is refused by |
| are distributed and allocated among the websites | | | | the search engines, it may affect all other sharers |
| using the server. Once allocated, they remain | | | | since they are using the same IP address. One |
| domain of those sites exclusively. Loss of some | | | | bad guy can spoil the entire show and the money |
| amount of efficiency, flexibility, and a little security | | | | and effort put in the website could go all waste. |
| is compensated by its inexpensive nature. | | | | The Selection |
| Reasons for the inexpensive nature of shared | | | | While dedicated servers are safer and more |
| web hosting are that the operating costs are | | | | secure providing all the resources to the end user |
| shared between multiple users. | | | | exclusively, they are also expensive and therefore |
| Resource Sharing | | | | may not be as suitable as the shared hosting for |
| Main feature of the shared hosting is that the | | | | the small and marginal entrepreneurs. However, if |
| users not only share the server but also all | | | | the enterprise is large and website is complex, the |
| related resources including the disk space, IP | | | | dedicated web hosting could be the only option. |