While a managed VPS web hosting account may cost more than what seems like an unlimited shared hosting account, smart buyers go for the VPS - if you're serious about your website, its traffic and its reliability.
And why would you go to the trouble of setting up a website if you don't intend for it to stay up and get lots of visitors?
Shared hosting accounts and managed VPS hosting accounts are often confused because they both look the same to the website designer and they're similar to use. Both also allow a single server to serve many users and both are much more economical than a dedicated server.
There are some major differences, though.
Let's look at the difference between shared hosting and VPS plans - both managed and unmanaged.
Explaining Shared Hosting
Shared hosting providers can make generous offers of disk space and bandwidth because they know their clients all too well. Most users don't use very much of their so-called "unlimited" resources available. And as clients prove they're using very little of the company's resources, fewer and fewer are allocated to them.
Your shared hosting account might even be moved to an old, slow server once the company sees your site isn't very active.
Still, shared hosting plans are the least expensive available. If you need to get a website set up cheaply and aren't sure how successful it will be, shared hosting can work out fine. If the site takes off, however, you may wish for better control and better service.
Explaining Unmanaged and Managed VPS Hosting
With a VPS hosting account - an account that gives you a part of a server at the web host to use for your project - you get a much more robust hosting situation than with a shared hosting account.
When you're getting lots of traffic, need to run custom applications or become concerned about just how secure your cheap hosting account is, it's time to move up to a VPS hosting solution.
An unmanaged VPS account is just like having a dedicated server that you're running on your own. You're in complete control. All the Linux commands work, and you can make as many tweaks and adjustments as you want. It's your baby.
But there's also no help available.
A managed VPS hosting account, however, gives you the reliability, dependability and control of a VPS hosting account along with the ease of use of a control panel like you get with a shared hosting account.
Managed VPS also gives you access to customer service by ticketing or email, so there's always someone available to help when something goes wrong - or when you make a mistake.
In fact, you can operate a managed VPS hosting account even if you know very little about Linux, programming or the Internet.
The Bottom Line
Here's how it all works out: A shared hosting account will get your site up. An unmanaged VPS hosting account is a step up - if you're a programmer - but a managed hosting account is the top rung for busy businesspeople.
So which is right for you? It depends on how serious you are about your site - and how confident you are about your ability to run it by yourself.
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