There are many advantages to hosting your own private website or WordPress blog.
You can make it look how you want it to look, and add what you like. Basically,
you will have a complete control on every aspect of your blog or website. now
that we convinced you to start hosting your own blog\web site, let’s take a
closer look at the options for your hosting.
Shared Hosting
first thing first, Let us start explaining what is shared hosting. well its just
like when you rent a small part of a very big powerful server, that’s being
shared by many other people and their websites. sometimes hosts can be shared
among hundreds of people, and because all those websites are on the same
physical server, it can be used by limited amount of websites because of the
limited resources (CPU, Memory, Disk ect..), and your website can and will be
affected.
Virtual Private Servers - VPS
Once you have been outgrown shared hosting, lets talk about the next level -
VPS. first know this, VPS is a little more expensive, but the good part is that
its really easy to setup and there is alot of information on the internet for
waiting for you to read..
So, VPS is a private, virtual server that exists on a much more powerful
physical Server or what they call "machine". But unlike shared hosting, on the
VPS you have a guaranteed system resources only for you! So, even if there are
much bigger sites then yours on that Machine given to another VPS, hosted on the
same machine, dont worry, you will always get guaranteed system resources which
you pay for. Think of it as one big computer, running lots of smaller virtual
computers inside of it.
remember don’t overload your VPS system so your website will perform better. ohh
allmost forgot to tell you guys, once your website grows, you can easily upgrade
your VPS to a more powerful one by adding more CPU's, Disks and Memory to it in
a matter of minutes, moreover you need no migration :)
VPS Hosting Examples
Once you decided running a VPS know this, you responsible for the VPS yourself,
so if something goes wrong with anything on your VPS, your VPS provider probably
won’t help you. That’s why it’s so important to backup your virtualy hosted web
site (although, on our company WEBSTUFF israel we are willing to help with
certain issues).
As for a wordpress website\blog you don’t have to be computer genius to set up,
on a self-managed VPS you can easily install a decent control panel like Cpanel
(free install and open source) to take care of all the hard work for you in few
commands. Then you have a cool web based control panel to manage your websites,
databases, email, and DNS's, just like in shared hosting
exept the fact that you can install more then one website on the same VPS.
Conclusion
So now, do you know which type of hosting you need? if I was starting out again
figuring what to choose VPS or regular hosting account I would absolutely go
with a VPS from the beginning. With companies like WEBSTUFF israel offering
cheap, configurable, reliable VPS packages there is really no need to even
consider shared hosting.
As I saied VPS hosting is a little more difficult to setup but it’s certainly
the best possibly out there.
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