When your website starts to gain popularity, you are faced with a significant choice regarding the type of hosting service capable of best supporting the portal/website: shared hosting, semi-dedicated hosting or dedicated server.
By definition we can summarize the difference:
Shared hosting | Semi-dedicated hosting | Dedicated hosting |
| There are thousands of websites from different customers | There is a limited number (16-20) of websites from different clients | There are a number of websites available at the customer's discretion |
These three types risk becoming a nightmare, fueling the fear that a wrong choice could impact the site's performance and therefore its accessibility.
In reality, choosing between the three types of hosting isn't that difficult. First, a technical distinction must be made: the first two types of hosting (shared and semi-dedicated) typically offer easy-to-use tools (control panel, services, and support) and don't require any administrative skills or advanced training, unlike dedicated plans that require constant support for updates and fine-tuning.
The cost then of a dedicated hosting it is high and is justified only by a particular request for resources and computing power due to visits or particular operations on the archives.
If there are no needs for speed, indexing, security and computing power, the choice can fall onshared hostingMajor Italian providers like Aruba, Register, Serverplan... or foreign providers like OVH, Godaddy... offer many shared hosting plans at affordable prices. They're great for semi-amateur projects or personal blogs, but the big problem is that if you reach the shared resource limits... il sito viene temporaneamente reso "irraggiunbile" From the Provider. If you want to run an experiment to see how many sites are present on the server where your website is hosted, you can use this tool. https://viewdns.info/reverseip/ and enter your domain name or the IP of your shared server and... good luck!
THE' semi-dedicated hosting It's designed for all those portals that have a moderate amount of traffic (250 to 2,000 visits per day) and struggle with resource constraints in shared solutions. While shared hosting is suitable for most scenarios, there are some sites whose CPU and RAM usage, database access, and page load times are limited by the presence of too many portals on the same shared server.
In these situations, choosing semi-dedicated hosting allows you to be sure that the same server where your account will operate will host only a very limited number of accounts, allowing for the best possible allocation of available hardware resources. This will provide you with more computing power, more disk space, more bandwidth, and so on.
Obviously, the fewer accounts you have on the same server, the higher the cost of semi-dedicated hosting, although these solutions are generally always cheaper than a dedicated service.
Semi-dedicated hosting, therefore, offers greater processing power, fewer usage limitations, more resources, support for custom modules and packages, without significantly increasing the price and, above all, without requiring advanced technical knowledge, as the semi-dedicated hosting control panel includes the same features as the shared hosting control panel. There are also two important factors to consider that lead to choosing a semi-dedicated hosting solution. semi-dedicated hosting compared to a shared hosting :
If there are 1000 or more sites on the same web-server and one of them gets hacked or it ends in blacklist for other reasons, the server IP will be blacklisted and thus all sites operated with that IP will suffer
For more than a year now, Google has included the loading and display speed of pages among the main SEO indexing specifications, especially for mobile devices.
Below is a summary table of the main PROs and CONS of the 3 solutions
PRO | |
COST | There are shared hosting plans that start from a few dozen euros per year. |
EASE | Since customizations are extremely limited, management is simplified. |
AGAINST | |
SPEED/POWER | Resources (processing and bandwidth) are limited by the provider, and when these limits are reached, the site becomes unavailable. Speed impacts indexing. |
SAFETY | Essendo solitamente presenti migliaia di siti web sullo stesso hosting, è sufficiente che solo uno finisca in balcklist per "trascinare" il server stesso in blacklist |
CUSTOMIZATION | Limited customization possibilities |
PRO | |
SPEED/POWER | La potenza di calcolo del server è divisa tra pochi siti offrendo le migliori performance di calcolo e banda ed evitando il "blocco" in caso vengano raggiunti i limiti delle risorse disponibili (velocità di caricamento, e visualizzazione) |
SAFETY | There aren't thousands of other websites that risk blacklisting your server. |
CUSTOMIZATION | Complete customization of the service |
| COST | The cost is slightly higher than that of shared hosting |
| EASE | The technical management of updates, security, etc.....is the responsibility of AS Webagency |
AGAINST | |
LIMITATIONS |
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PRO | |
SPEED/POWER | Il server "lavora" esclusivamente per il singolo portale offrendo le migliori performance di calcolo e banda (velocità di caricamento, e visualizzazione) |
SAFETY | There are no other websites that risk blacklisting the server. |
CUSTOMIZATION | Complete customization of the service |
| SCALABILITY | It is possible to immediately upgrade or downgrade the infrastructure (CPU/RAM/Disk space) |
AGAINST | |
COST | The cost is high and is only justified for portals with thousands of daily visits or that require particularly demanding database operations, image processing, synchronization, etc. |
EASE | It is necessary to rely on system administrators for assistance, fine-tuning, updates, etc. (service offered by AS WebAgency) |
AS Web Agency offers, exclusively to its customers, dedicated hosting and semi-dedicated hosting plans. For the latter, we certify that each server is up to 20 sites hosted, to provide a seamless service without slowdowns or disruptions, especially during peak traffic hours. Each server is equipped with an Intel Xeon Gold 6130 CPU, 32 GB of RAM, and SSD (solid state) drives, unlimited bandwidth, and automatic daily backups. The control panel is a Parallel Plesk, and in addition to 24-hour technical assistance, the service includes comprehensive support. The cloud servers are GDPR compliant, redundant, and located in Italy.