I have talked a lot about Dreamhost shared hosting in past few posts. Most of hosting companies like dreamhost offer shared and dedicated hosting.
The major difference between both of the hosting type is money and performance. The question is which hosting a beginner should go for?
The hosting requirement depend on the kind of application you want to run on your hosting account.
For bloggers, who simple want to start with blogging, should go for shared hosting, because of following reasons :
- Initially your traffic is not too much
- Shared hosting are cheaper than dedicated hosting.
- Most of the start-up websites can be easily handled by shared hosting.
Initially when a blogger start with blogging, he is sort of fund and with very little income. It’s better to go for some hosting between 5-10$/month rather than spending 20-50$ for dedicated hosting.
There are Three Shared hosting company which I will recommend for starters
- Bluehost
- Dreamhost
- Hostgator (Hostgator Review)
Once your traffic shoots up, you can easily migrate to dedicated hosting.
What do you think? A newbie should go for shared or dedicated hosting at the beginning?
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Easy question
Look at the price and you’ll get the answer lol
Not too mention it’s easy to upgrade to a dedicated anyway later on during the track
I agree with your comment Michael. And for any new blog or site (WordPress) shared hosting is good enough to hold your traffic and provide you enough resources.
Thanks for dropping by and for your comment.
I do agree.I think good price =good quality.
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That will be fine but It’s not always, some shared hosting plans costs more then VPS even dedicated servers in this post that is not, all of this companies offers cheap web hosting.
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Its not only for beginners but also for small/medium scale companies which just need an online presence to showcase their products to a larger audience.
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I agree with your Vaibhav but it;s not always the same for company who are building web apps which are resource hungry. Is int it?
It™s better to go for some hosting between 5-10$/month rather then spending 20-50$ for dedicated hosting.
Where do u get dedicated servers at $20-50?
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Sanjay there are few which offer that…But again they are cheap and quality always come with a price tag…
The good one I know offer VPS for such price…
Thanks for dropping by.
For beginners IMO the best way is to buy a domain name & go with Blogger (i.e. custome domain name @ blogger)…absolutely free of cost
I am doing the same & earning with Google AdSense.
Yeah I too agree. I have just started blogging, so I too stick to it.
I completely agree with your point.
how much easy in moving from shared hosting to dedicated hosting?
do we need to work on filesystem and database migration etc…
Suresh depends… If you getting cPanel along with it, with cPanel importer you can migrate everything with few clicks.. Else it will be more like Moving a WordPress blog, which is simple.
I agree with you harsh. The beginners should always start with a shared webhosting and thats the reason I am with dreamhost shared webhosting.
~ Sathish
Sathish I hope you having a good time with Dreamhost. Do share your review about the same…
Depends. I think the main issue is that dedicated hosting can be really complicated if you don’t know how to run one. But if you have the money and know how to run a dedicated server, I think it’s a good choice.
I think when you are a beginner you should have the attitude that you are in it for the long run – so set up your sites knowing you will have tons of traffic in the future.