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June 2nd, 2010

Shared Hosting Vs Windows VPS Hosting

Shared hosting is known as a cheap and affordable web hosting option for small and medium sized businesses. But, when a sudden growth is noticed in the business, the features and resources that comes with a shared hosting package are not enough to run the online business effectively.

Also, compared to the VPS and Dedicated Servers, Shared hosting delivers very less protection in order to defend a website from intruders. VPS is known as a well secured hosting solution for any type of business compare to the shared web hosting. With shared hosting, the physical server space is split and allotted to every individual customer having an account on that server. If anyone client want to install an SSL certificate, he will have to use a shared SSL which is really not a secured way to accept the transactions.

In VPS, a physical server is divided into few small servers, where every virtual server acts as an independent server and offers same security, control and features that you get with Dedicated Server Hosting. As Dedicated hosting solution is not affordable by every small business, hence VPS Hosting can be a right solution and delivers same performance as dedicated server.

You can choose a VPS in two different forms: Windows VPS Hosting and Linux VPS Hosting. A deep research has shown that most of the corporate people have chosen Windows VPS Hosting as their primary hosting solution. There are number of reasons to choose windows as hosting platform.

Windows is much secure, stable and compatible with every products developed by Microsoft Technologies. Windows hosting offers various kinds of programming languages and provides support for multimedia and high graphics websites.

Going for a VPS provides you a dedicated RAM, disk space and a dedicated IP address to install your own SSL certificate. Windows VPS hosting is a very profitable and much secure option to run your online business effectively.