{"id":3804,"date":"2019-05-15T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjlewisdigital.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2024-01-23T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:52:44","slug":"website-hosting-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjlewisdigital.com\/website-hosting-2024","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the right website hosting for your business."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A little background.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Website hosting across the board traditionally only comes in three(3) basic flavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Shared hosting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Managed website hosting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Virtual private server, better known as VPS hosting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    A few variations have emerged in attempts to make consumer-viable hosting better, faster, and cheaper. Managed VPS hosting is what I’d like to think was my best find of 2018. .. and I still stand by it in 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Now, let’s take a minute to review your options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Shared hosting is not so good. Here’s why!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    That super-cheap hosting that you saw in that ad is developed by putting your website and many<\/em> other people’s websites on the same server. That’s why it’s called Shared Hosting. While it is cost-effective and beneficial for Go Daddy et al, it exposes you to, not a small amount of risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Did you know your website and email can be blocked because a website on the same server as yours gets blacklisted?<\/strong> Most people don’t until it bites them. Read on!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Over the years, I have had many clients on shared hosting, and sooner or later, something would happen that would facilitate moving them to a private server. Malware and blacklisting are only two of the issues that could go wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Shared hosting is the apartment of hosting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Means that you can’t paint the walls because you don’t own them<\/em>. When you’re out headhunting a digital consultant and the unfortunately named web developer, Dick \u2013 let’s call him WDD for brevity \u2013 can’t explain clearly where he’s putting your websites, there is a good chance that you’re in for some troubles. Shared hosting has its place, I’m sure, but for the life of me, I can’t come up with a single reason why you should buy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Managed Website Hosting. We can still do better, Goldilocks.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Managed Website Hosting is essentially a service that I used to offer back in my web developer days by placing client websites on MY private servers and personally administering them. It is not a bad thing, but Andrew Welch at NY Studio 107 had an apt description: it’s like going from an apartment to a condo. It is a step up, but you still lack ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Managed Hosting\u2026is like liv\u00ading in a con\u00addo\u00admini\u00adum in that it\u2019s typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly a step up from rent\u00ading an apart\u00adment, but you still don\u2019t own the land you live on.<\/p>\nAndrew Welch at NY Studio 107<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    This means that you still don’t have control over what’s installed on the server and you could still be paying way more money for plain old shared hosting – you don’t know what it is your provider is managing, because it’s obscured by a glut of software. Another pitfall is that “management” is a word with a loose definition. Some providers clearly outline what that means, others do not and it’s a crapshoot as to what you’re getting. Some technicians will just do the work for you and others won’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3. VPS Hosting is great! We’re getting warmer.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    VPS hosting tends to be cheaper, faster, and scale much better. If you’re a tinkerer like myself, it’s like being given the golden ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The pros of a VPS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n