It’s been about web site speed the last time here at “Do you ever wonder” category. Today we will cover another nice 
area of questions. Its about what is right for your situation. Which of the different hosting types is right for you and what the different names really mean 
Shared hosting isn’t for huge projetcs, than what is it for?
Shared hosting, as it’s name implies, is a shared platform, It’s shared by a group of people [accounts] being hosted on one single physical server. The reliability, speed and level of service you get from a shared server depends on a few things. It all depends on it’s configuration and optimization. And of course the people behind the company. If the people behind the company just want to make money and don’t want to truly deliver the promised level of service than not even the best configured server can make your stay better
With shared hosting you are sharing the whole server with many other web site owners. It depends on the company you are with if they oversell the server, or keep only a reasonable amount of accounts on one machine. If there are just too many accounts with busy web sites, than at a certain level you will most probably start to experience problems…
A VPS is this virtual thing, right???
Well, that’s true. The term VPS stands for Virtual private server and it’s only a virtual machine emulated on a physical server. Once again the same rule with the number of accounts per server applies. Too many accounts on one busy server just overloads it and makes your life worse… .
VPS hosting is the so-called next step on your hosting journey. You will most probably decide to go one level up from shared hosting if your web site starts to feel the need for more resources, than you are allowed to use on a shared platform.
While still staying on a shared system you are given the right to use a dedicated amount of system resources on a VPS and thus you are given much more flexibility and rights to control things. You even have an own IP address and you can control pretty much everything you need to
But be warned, that with this power comes responsibility and thu you are the one who needs to look after security, optimization and configure the whole thing!
A dedicated server?huh?
If your project needs a server of it’s own than you are going to the dedicated server hosting level. It’s one level up from the VPS [or two 
], but the fundamentals apply. You are given a whole physical server and it’s up to you to configure, secure and optimize it. You are also provide with a certain level of support from the side of your hosting company, but this differs from host to host
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While on a dedicated server you can use the whole power of the server for your own projects. You do not need to care about other accounts on the server as you are alone on the physical machine! This is really suitable for important, big or high security requiring projects and not a simple web blog
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