What is the difference between shared hosting and VPS hosting?
When you put up a website, you obviously need a good hosting package. Hosting is the term that describes renting memory, processing power, and disk space on a server from a hosting provider. The hosting provider primarily takes care of the technical side of your website. They offer you a server, on which your website is accessible via the Internet.
In addition, the server is secured and configured so that the site can run quickly even during busy times. When choosing a hosting package, you have a choice between various options. The most important are shared hosting and VPS hosting.
What exactly do these two concepts mean?
What is the difference between shared hosting and VPS hosting?
We will try to explain this to you in this article.
What is shared web hosting?
As the name suggests, shared hosting is about sharing. The website is on a server that also hosts other people’s websites. In this way, the entire server capacity is divided among multiple accounts. In shared hosting, all of these websites together consume the same server capacity.
Same operating system, same web server, same database server, and similar scripting languages.
Like PHP for example.
How much space you rent on a server depends on the hosting package you choose as a website owner.
What is VPS server hosting ?
A VPS server is an abbreviation for the term Virtual Private Server. As you can guess from the name, there is a difference between VPS hosting and shared hosting. This system can run many virtual machines (which are VPS servers) on one physical server. This way you can use all the benefits and features of a server, only in a virtual form. Virtual machines have been used by computing giants like IBM and HP for a long time, but VPS hosting is also gaining increasing popularity among web hosting providers.
Important differences and benefits of VPS hosting:
The most important difference between shared hosting and VPS hosting lies in the way the two systems use the hardware resources. In the case of shared hosting, websites and/or applications that reside on the server consume the server’s resources and capacity simultaneously .
It is therefore conceivable that other users of the server may experience limitations as a result of one website or application with unusually high traffic. Your website may become very slow or even temporarily down in such a case. This also clarifies the biggest advantage of VPS hosting.
Because you own a certain amount of server capacity in this system, which other users do not have access to, you will not be limited by what is happening on other sites or applications.
This makes your website perform better and more reliable. Because a VPS works completely independently, it also has significant advantages in terms of security.
When is shared hosting and when is VPS ?
The right hosting package will be chosen primarily based on your needs. If you are not a technical expert and do not have knowledge of server management, then – especially if you do not need huge resources – shared web hosting will suffice for you. The advantages of shared hosting are the cheap price and the fact that the provider takes care of all the infrastructure and maintenance. Besides, you can start operating quickly, in this case.
But in the areas of data transfer, storage space, and performance, shared storage has its limitations.
Are you heavily dependent on your website for business purposes? Are you looking for more freedom and flexibility? If so, VPS hosting is the right choice in most cases.
The article was translated from German by Ofek Bengiat from the website:
savvii.com/de/blog/unterschied-zwischen-shared-hosting-vps-hosting
