Dedicated Hosting Update: Where Are Costs Headed?

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Dedicated Hosting means just what its name implies - you rent an entire server from a hosting company that is dedicated to your use only. You aren’t sharing disk space or server resources with anyone else like you do with the shared-server environment of Virtual Hosting. That is the key difference that makes Dedicated Hosting more reliable and secure than Virtual Hosting since you never have to worry that someone who is sharing your server causes a problem by overloading or corrupting it.

Practically the only reason Virtual Hosting still tops Dedicated Hosting in popularity is cost. You could liken the cost difference to riding a mass transit bus (Virtual) versus hiring a chauffeured limousine (Dedicated). While riding the bus is a whole lot cheaper, you’ll spend a lot more time waiting for the bus, making numerous stops for other riders, getting exposed to everyone’s bugs and you still don’t get dropped off exactly where you want to go.

The limousine on the other hand costs exponentially more but it comes stocked with your favorite goodies, picks you up exactly where and when you choose and whisks you to your exact destination without a worry in the world. Whether you need hosting or transportation, you should expect to pay a premium for the best, right? Well, with hosting at least, that’s not necessarily so anymore thanks to demand and competition in today’s market.

Fortunately for hosting consumers, the rates for Dedicated hosting plans are rapidly declining in the consumer’s favor thanks to tremendous sustained growth in the Web Hosting Industry. Poised to top $20 billion per year according to some estimates, industry growth is super-charged by the constant stream of small and medium-sized businesses getting on-line. When you combine that growth with the proliferation of Web hosting providers, you have an environment where competition is driving up services and driving down costs. Dedicated hosting plans used to start at several hundred dollars per month and went up into the thousands of dollars depending on your server needs. Today, there are hosting companies introducing Dedicated hosting plans starting as low as $50 per month!

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