It is very hard to choose a web hosting provider and further to choose a web hosting plan which will suit your requirements. Before purchasing a package it is very important for a customer to know each and every feature of the hosting package and also how it works. Shared hosting is for those who are new in business. Two of the best options available for the medium and small size businesses are Dedicated and VPS (Virtual Private Server). Which of them is better hosting package lets see:

Virtual Private Hosting

It can be understood as a hybrid plan of Shared and Dedicated Hosting. Dedicated hosting is costly and is not affordable by most of the small business. Shared hosting is cheap, not only in price but also in quality. That’s where VPS comes into action. VPS shares qualities from both shared and dedicated. It looks like shared since the server is shared by multiple users. Also VPS is like dedicated hosting as you can enjoy all the features and advantages of a dedicated server. A software divides a dedicated server into many small parts, each part acts like a dedicated server. This whole process is called virtualization. In simple words VPS hosting is like using dedicated hosting with less resources on a lower price.

Dedicated Server Hosting

Dedicated Server can be called as king of all the servers. A host provides you with one of the server placed in their data center. Two most dedicated hosting available in market are managed and unmanaged dedicated hosting, the first being more famous. If you choose to go for managed dedicated hosting, then hosting company will take care of all the maintenance and look after of your servers. However if you choose the unmanaged one then you will have to maintain your server on your own. Although unmanaged is a bit cheaper then managed dedicated hosting but mostly people prefer managed. Dedicated servers are most suitable for the website which expects huge traffic and do not want to compromise with the quality. All the resources like disk space and  bandwidth are in very huge on a dedicated server and all the resources are completely dedicated to your site, you don’t have to share it anyone. Uptime guarantee on dedicated server is 100%. To make it more secure each dedicated server have the feature of customized firewall which makes it secure from all type of malicious activities on internet.

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