Source: Shared Web Hosting

Why am I always the FTC on a thread I know nothing about?

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Nonsense

shared hosting is not bad for online business, just get a good host.. why I recommend hostgator for people even thou it's quite expensive, I think they are trying. on the other hand Dedicated hosting is very very expensive let's say $100 per month, believe me you need to be popular before you can afford that.

As for the aspect of bandwidth and disk space, shared hosting is better, cous most times you'd consume 5TB of bandwidth and your account won't be suspended, and on shared hosting your disk space is as large as 1TB, but dedicated server won't give you such, you pay for extra TB.

my view thou.

Ultimately depends on the service provider. Thousands of people use shared hosting and they are okay. Everybody can't use VPS.

Ok

Young man, Get your facts right. Dont mislead people.

lonelydora:
Why am I always the FTC on a thread I know nothing about?

maybe because you are not too busy

Efewestern:
shared hosting is not bad for online business, just get a good host.. why I recommend hostgator for people even thou it's quite expensive, I think they are trying. on the other hand Dedicated hosting is very very expensive let's say $100 per month, believe me you need to be popular before you can afford that.

As for the aspect of bandwidth and disk space, shared hosting is better, cous most times you'd consume 5TB of bandwidth and your account won't be suspended, and on shared hosting your disk space is as large as 1TB, but dedicated server won't give you such, you pay for extra TB.

my view thou.

What did you now recommend for business purposes?

KingOfThePay:
Young man, Get your facts right. Dont mislead people.

Op was right

No valid reason. Without shared hosting... the internet would have been boring with very few websites. Don't forget, Nairaland started with sharedhosting for a couple of years. Ask Seun.

Just try Hostgator and you'll never need a vps.

israelmao:

What did you now recommend for business purposes?

depending on your business, if you can AFFORD dedicated server, no problem, go for it. but if you can't go for shared hosting.. 70% of business site are hosted on shared hosting.

OP you ended up saying nothing.

I know a dude who have owened multiple (shared host) websites over the years. And he's totally good and okay with the experiernce. So, in practice, some shared hosting companies offer dedicated IPs to distinguish subscribers' accounts thereby eliminating the fear of load overflow.

Plus, where the dedicated IP is not obtainable, shared hosts have a lot of restrictive measures that are designed to prevent malicious activities and unbalanced intensive usage. And most shared hosting companies, of today, do not use the unlimited bandwidth gimmic. They always put a cap to it.

In fact one of those shared hosts that my dude used last year gave him 200gig of bandwidth (plus a plethora of other features) at $9 flat. Although, they later hiked the renewal fee of that same $9 plan to almost $160 after the first year. So my dude did the needful, and migrated his site to a new host.

So, in the final analysis, shared hosting is perfect for businesses that attract average traffic and have little or no need for intensive web script execution. And a business website can remain in this category forever and still be very successful in terms of leads and sales generation.

However, when the business website grows big in traffic and desires to deploy one or more web apps, a dedicated hosting or VPS will definitely be the way to go. At least such options are supposed to net faster support and more efficiency from your host.

AgamaHub:
Nonsense

your opinion!

KingOfThePay:
Young man, Get your facts right. Dont mislead people.

which fact do you need... Google is there for you...

Depends on your host.

A webmaster starting a new site with Dedicated servers is foolishness to me. Shared hosting first, and when the site grows and yo have started making money that you can afford cloud hosting, then VPS hosting before dedicated servers.
A site may need Dedicated servers when there are so many traffic such as Nairaland or LindaIkeji, and this normally takes close to 5 or more years before you think of even getting a dedicated server.

paschu:
OP you ended up saying nothing.

I know a dude who have owened multiple (shared host) websites over the years. And he's totally good and okay with the experiernce. So, in practice, some shared hosting companies offer dedicated IPs to distinguish subscribers' accounts thereby eliminating the fear of load overflow.

Plus, where the dedicated IP is not obtainable, shared hosts have a lot of restrictive measures that are designed to prevent malicious activities and unbalanced intensive usage. And most shared hosting companies, of today, do not use the unlimited bandwidth gimmic. They always put a cap to it.

In fact one of those my dude used last year gave him 200gig of bandwidth (plus a plethora of other features) at $9 flat. Although, they later hiked the renewal fee of that same $9 plan to almost $160 after the first year. So my dude did the needful, and migrated his site to a new host.

So, in the final analysis, shared hosting is perfect for businesses that attract average traffic and have little or no need for intensive web script execution. And a business website can remain in this category forever and still be very successful in terms of leads and sales generation.

However, when the business website grows big in traffic and desires to deploy one or more web apps, a dedicated hosting or VPS will definitely be the way to go. At least such options are supposed to net faster support and more efficiency from your host.

first you didnt get the aim of the post...
lemme break it down again..
As you can see in the post, I singled out blogs, little websites, portfolios and the likes...

Am not saying it cant host it.. even a free hosting would do... I will rather use a free hosting to host a blog than most quack hosts....

And I also mentioned...its for only sites running intensive scripts and massive traffic... INTENSIVE SCRIPTS makes uses of lots of cron job which tends to slow down your server... you can imagine the likes of nairaland, jumia, konga, olx, paypal running on a shared server, No!

and the case study you brought up even went the same direction.. most of this host cmpanies wont tell you the real price... they tell you an attractive price, then when renewal comes they bill all together... so that is simple enough to understand...

I believe shared hosting is good for startup, you cannot start a startup with dedicated hosting like 500k/annum? You scale up gradually.

arterxerxes:
A webmaster starting a new site with Dedicated servers is foolishness to me. Shared hosting first, and when the site grows and yo have started making money that you can afford cloud hosting, then VPS hosting before dedicated servers.
A site may need Dedicated servers when there are so many traffic such as Nairaland or LindaIkeji, and this normally takes close to 5 or more years before you think of even getting a dedicated server.

Exactly

yomalex:
Ultimately depends on the service provider. Thousands of people use shared hosting and they are okay. Everybody can't use VPS.

Absolutely concur. I run many business websites with majority on shared hosting and it has been hitchfree

Your points are baseless. What are you saying in essence? Which servers are not shared? Are are you now suggesting that every website owner should buy his own server?

@OP please get your facts right. Your title and the post is very misleading. Shared hosting is the most affordable. And like someone already said here, you have to be popular: get enough traffic on your website before you can consider going out of shared hosting to a dedicated server or VPS. Else, you will simply be wasting valuable hosting resources and money.

koksybrown:
No valid reason. Without shared hosting... the internet would have been boring with very few websites. Don't forget, Nairaland started with sharedhosting for a couple of years. Ask Seun.

Just try Hostgator and you'll never need a vps.

yea, ofcourse everyone started with a shared hosting.. but as for large businesses like jumia, olx and the likes you dont expect to see them using a $1 shared host

NaWetinDey:
Your points are baseless. What are you saying in essence? Which servers are not shared? Are are you now suggesting that every website owner should buy his own server?

Lol, read again

Op obviously is clueless and doesn't know what he is talking about .

The only disadvantage I could list is it's usually difficult giving users access to the admin panel Due to security issues

oohunt:
@OP please get your facts right. Your title and the post is very misleading. Shared hosting is the most affordable. And like someone already said here, you have to be popular: get enough traffic on your website before you can consider going out of shared hosting to a dedicated server or VPS. Else, you will simply be wasting valuable hosting resources and money.

sure, the post is for large business websites oo

naijainfogalery:
Op obviously is clueless and doesn't know what he is talking about .

The only disadvantage I could list is it's usually difficult giving users access to the admin panel Due to security issues

mokoprem:
yea, ofcourse everyone started with a shared hosting.. but as for large businesses like jumia, olx and the likes you dont expect to see them using a $1 shared host

I suggest you edit the title of your thread to read what you mean.