Shared Hosting for Small Business Web Sites

Developing a piece of real estate in cyberspace is no small task. As a small business owner, in particular, your time is limited. Therefore, it makes a great deal of sense for small business web site owners to employ shared hosting as opposed to dedicated hosting. Shared hosting costs less than dedicated hosting -- some surveys put the cost of bare bones shared hosting at around $10 to $20 a month, whereas even middle-tier dedicated hosting can range upwards of $200 per month.

In addition, when you share the costs and maintenance burdens of maintaining a host with other web site owners, you automatically reduce potential drains on your resources and gain a “family” of like-minded web site business partners to advocate on your behalf.

Shared hosting for small business web site owners also confers a degree of security. When you operate a dedicated server, you must constantly be on the lookout for phishing attacks, spam, viruses, worms, and other hacker storms.

It’s up to you to update your server with the latest patches, and you must spring for technically adroit associates to answer questions about system glitches or updates and adaptations. It’s expensive to invite a third party to inspect your dedicated host if and when security breaches occur.

With shared hosting, on the other hand, since the responsibility for maintaining the server is dispersed, you can rely on other more specialized web site maintenance crews to deal with issues for you.

An analogy might be made to real estate -- shared hosting is like renting a house; managed hosting is like owning your own home. If something goes wrong when you rent, you simply dial a landlord to fix it. If something goes wrong when you own, you have to supply the money and manpower to get it resolved.

Best of all, the terms and conditions associated with shared hosting are often very amenable to small business web site owners. You can run your own company mail through your server, store gigabytes of information online (thanks to improved new memory caching technologies), and rely on 24/7 security and maintenance services to protect your company’s web site assets.

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