Web servers are an essential component of website hosting, which is a service that is provided by website hosting companies to render sites accessible over the Internet. Web servers can be either shared servers or dedicated servers or VPS (Virtual Private Servers). The aim of this blog is to provide comprehensive information on shared and dedicated web servers and to make known the advantage that the latter has over the former.

The Use of Web Servers in Website Hosting

Website Hosting is a service that needs to be availed by every website owner who wants his site to be accessible online to site visitors. The files, which contain the content of a website, are required to be stored on a web server from where these can be retrieved by the web browsers of site visitors, to render the site accessible. Space on these web servers is provided by website hosting companies through their various website hosting services and specific plans. These web hosting packages make available not only server space to site owners but also the technologies and the services that are needed to keep the hosted sites seamlessly accessible.

To digress, HTS Hosting, which is a globally preferred brand in the domain of website hosting and is considered as the best Website Hosting Company, operates from its data centre that houses its fully-equipped web servers (shared servers, dedicated servers, Virtual Private Servers) which are managed and monitored by experts to deliver peak performance and secure service.

As has been already mentioned, web servers can be either shared or dedicated or VPS, but regardless of their type, all the web servers serve the same function, which is to store the files of websites that have availed the service of website hosting. When a site visitor wants to visit a site, his browser communicates with the web server that hosts that site’s files and requests for these files. The web server locates the files in its storage, processes those and sends them over the Internet to the browser that had initiated the communication. Through this process, the site becomes accessible to the site visitor. It is evident that web servers are a necessary component in the service of website hosting, as these servers store and process the files of websites and deliver those files to browsers for rendering sites accessible.

Since the focus of this blog is on imparting information on the advantage that dedicated servers have over shared servers, let us first throw light on what these servers are and how these two types of servers differ from each other.

Dedicated Servers and Shared Servers

Website hosting which is of different types, such as shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, etc., uses different types of web servers to offer specific types of website hosting solutions. Shared servers are used to deliver shared hosting, whereas dedicated servers are used to provide the service of dedicated hosting.

A shared server is a web server which hosts multiple sites on a single server. These hosted sites not only share space on the same server but also its resources. This sharing of server resources makes it one of the most economical hosting solutions. On the flip side, availability of shared server resources, limits the availability of server resources to individual sites, which impacts their speed, security and performance. Here it needs to be brought to your notice that the shared servers offered in the shared hosting plans of HTS Hosting are powerfully configured to deliver top-class performance, fast speed and enhanced security despite the shared server environment that these offer to the hosted sites.

A dedicated server is the opposite of a shared server, as it offers dedicated server resources instead of shared resources, which is the case in a shared server. By hosting a single website on a single server, dedicated servers are able to offer dedicated server resources to the hosted site. The entire resources of a dedicated server are meant for the exclusive use of a single site, which is hosted on such a server. Dedicated servers are able to boost significantly the performance of the hosted site by providing dedicated server resources to it. Enhanced speed, site performance and security are the direct results of using a dedicated server to host your site.

If your site has strict requirements for dedicated server resources for its optimal functioning or it needs enhanced speed and security, then dedicated servers are your best bet. It is usually sites that get a lot of traffic which opt for dedicated servers as well as online stores, business-critical applications and sites of big businesses. On the other hand, if your site is not resource-intensive and can function effectively on shared server resources, then you need not spend on availing dedicated servers which tend to be more expensive than shared servers. Sites which can function effectively even without using dedicated server resources should avail shared servers. Some examples of such sites are blogging sites, sites that get less traffic, simple sites as well as sites of small-sized businesses and sites of those with less budget for website hosting.

HTS Hosting provides both, shared servers and dedicated servers, for Linux and Windows through its wide variety of plans which are affordably priced. HTS Hosting has earned the reputation of being the best Linux Shared Hosting Company as well as the best Windows Shared Hosting Company by delivering outstanding shared hosting services at massively discounted prices. The shared hosting plans of HTS Hosting start at Rs.31/month and come along with free SSL certificates, SSDs and user-friendly control panels. Every server used in shared hosting is fully capable of delivering high uptime, fast speed, secure service and enhanced performance. The dedicated servers of HTS Hosting are available at highly affordable prices to boost your site’s performance and offer seamless availability of your site at fast speed and securely. 24*7 expert technical support is available for the convenience of all the customers of HTS Hosting to ensure the best hosting experience.

How Do Dedicated Servers Score Over Shared Servers?

A dedicated server provides dedicated server resources to the hosted site and this helps to enhance the site’s performance, its speed and security. In this way, dedicated servers prove to be more effective than shared servers with regard to delivering top-notch performance. Moreover, dedicated servers can be customized at will, based on the specific requirements of the hosted site. This is not possible in a shared server, as the server space in it is shared by multiple sites. The problem of availability of limited server resources in a shared server gets done away with, when a dedicated server is used. The issues related to slow site loading speed and security get resolved by availing a dedicated server, wherein exclusive server resources’ availability puts an end to these issues.

If you have the necessary budget and the requirement for it, then it is definitely advantageous to opt for a dedicated server to host your site and enhance its performance rather than availing server space on a shared server. Before concluding, we would like to let you know that HTS Hosting excels at providing efficient, fully-secure, fast dedicated servers at budget-friendly prices which exist in and operate from our state-of-the-art data centre to ensure the peak performance of your site and its seamless availability.

Source: https://www.htshosting.org/knowledge-base/server/325/advantage-of-using-dedicated-server-over-shared-server