What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of SHARED HOSTING & DEDICATED HOSTING?

It depends on what kind of site that you have. Are it just html pages, or high-resource php files?

My own site with 1000 visitors a day is on a shared server, no problems with it.

Another site which I programmed the php script for with 5000 unique visitors a day, and over 300 GB of bandwidth, is on a shared RaQ4 with 20 other small sites. Also, no problem.

Originally posted by Indra
What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of SHARED HOSTING & DEDICATED HOSTING? The main difference is that on a dedicated server you are responsible to keep everything running. On a shared server with a good web host you don't have to play administrator. Somebody else will install security patches and reboot the server when it goes down at 4am.

A dedicated server comes in handy when your site is too popular for a shared server or when you want full control.

Jan Derk

Originally posted by janderk
On a shared server with a good web host you don't have to play administrator. Somebody else will install security patches and reboot the server when it goes down at 4am.

Of course, if you set the server up properly, it isn't going to spontaneously crash at 4am.

Woops ... sorry. I meant to vote for the shared hosting. :( (Cannot redo the post).

Small server with 128MB RAM and 166MHz Pentium can handle 1000 hits for a day just fine. If your host has better than that (like 512MB RAM and 850MHz CPU and some 5400/7200rpm HD) you should be fine. :)